Category Archives: Google

Discussion surrounding the world’s most popular search engine

Social Networks and Search – will they just spoil each other?

October 21, 2011 – 7:38 pm

Social is all over the place these days – even the mainstream media mentions it often, particularly at the moment with Facebook having just announced major changes at F8 and with Google pushing Google+ as a major alternative. Following so many SEO-related blogs and Twitter feeds as I do it’s easy to get the feeling [...]

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Pressing the wrong international buttons

June 4, 2011 – 2:10 pm

A Tale of Edinburgh University Press and search engines This weekend I was doing some research for additional content for my Scottish Books site and had occasion to do a Google search for Edinburgh University Press. To my surprise their site didn’t appear in the first page of results, or the second, or the third. [...]

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More Google site command oddities – and Bing too

April 30, 2010 – 8:59 pm

A few weeks ago I mentioned I was seeing more and more erratic behaviour in the once-reliable Google site command. Today I noticed more strangeness on this very site. In March I had 163 pages indexed, at the beginning of April I had dropped to 138. Now I’ve dropped again to 113. But the really [...]

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Personalised and real-time search – let me turn them off!

March 12, 2010 – 1:08 pm

Call me an old Luddite if you will, but to me – as a user rather than just as an SEO – personalised search is a faulty concept. The whole point of “search” is that I’m looking for something I usually don’t know much about – so why would I want sites that I already [...]

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PageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems

January 22, 2010 – 2:27 pm

Ok, this post is aimed at SEOs rather than a general audience, and is something I’ve been mulling over for quite some time without getting round to posting about it. I got the nudge to finally do so from a post on Search Engine Land – PageRank Sculpting Leaves NoFollowed Tags Behind . In that [...]

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Google site command oddities

January 2, 2010 – 3:03 pm

For some time I’ve been noticing irregularities in the results of the information that Google provides through the various commands and through the Webmaster Tools facility. Of course we all know the link command has been hopelessly broken for many years and frankly I don’t know why it’s still there, but the site command was [...]

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