Category Archives: Google

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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 article [...]

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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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More Google Geolocation oddities

November 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm

Sometimes Google really puzzles me. I just did a search from the UK, using Google.co.uk, selecting UK-only results, for “chatsworth bed”. (I was checking to see how Chatsworth bed was doing against the competition.) The Local results that Google inserted into the serps after the third natural result were:
Local business results for Bed near Chatsworth, [...]

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Google through the looking glass

November 3, 2009 – 9:32 pm

My last post discussed changes in the search landscape but it seems Google is busy changing both the business landscape and the real landscape.
A couple of weeks ago we had SEORoundtable reporting on them producing some very strange results in their search engine – searches in Google for “Google Ireland” were producing Google New Zealand [...]

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