Category Archives: Google

Discussion surrounding the world’s most popular search engine

Out of the Hellmouth – maybe

December 20, 2007 – 7:12 pm

Google announce the end of the supplemental index In a curiously timed announcement, just when many people are turning to thoughts of Xmas rather than SEO, Google have said that from now on all search queries will access the full index for relevant results, effectively ending the problem of good quality pages being ignored because [...]

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Despairing of Google

November 20, 2007 – 12:14 am

Sometimes I really do want to beat my head off the keyboard! Like many others who may be reading this I epouse ethical search engine optimisation techniques. I advise clients not to use any of the spammer’s tricks and to produce quality content. I tell them not to use hidden text or dodgy redirects or [...]

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Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?

November 7, 2007 – 1:51 pm

Either someone at Google has a sense of humour or they really are out to make robots of us all. Let’s hope the former is the reason for calling their latest venture Android. This is the apparent reality behind all the long running rumours of a Google Phone. In fact it appears to be an [...]

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Green bar madness

October 30, 2007 – 3:15 pm

The search world has been in meltdown for the last few days because of a little green bar. Toolbar PageRank (tbpr) is the source of more wasted blog time and forum comments than any other topic. Despite repeated statements from the more sensible end of the SEO market that toolbar pagerank is neither a true [...]

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Balmer attacks Google email privacy

October 11, 2007 – 8:23 pm

Steve Balmer, not exactly the shy and retiring type, has been having a go at Google again. With a fine eye for a good headline he basically said that Google reads your email – while of course those nice people at Hotmail wouldn’t dream of such a thing. Now regular readers of this blog (probably [...]

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Google respidering and the global economy

September 24, 2007 – 1:57 pm

After the recent episode during which some rankings were bouncing around unpredictably and I theorised that Google was dumping data due to a corruption in their indexes, we now seem to have returned to a rather more stable index with most of the sites I monitor being back to their normal positions or in some [...]

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