Microsoft has just released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8, already! I’m personally not a fan of IE, but thought I’d have a look at it, seen as it’s 3 or 4 years since I made the switch to Firefox. Anyway, while installing IE 8 I came across this

Quite surprising that the default search

I’ve just read an interesting post from Search Engine Land, announcing the introduction of benchmarking data within Google Analytics. This essentially means that you’ll be able to compare your own stats (UB’s, page impressions, time on site etc.) with aggregate data for your industry. The catch is that you need to opt in to

Google was supposed to have made changes to their algorithm that eliminated Google bombs, the most famous being “miserable failure” - which displayed Whitehouse.gov as the no.1 result. It would seem that Google may have some more fine tuning to do as there appears to be a new Google bomb. Tom Cruise is going to

As a developer, seeing what Google is continually doing with its Google Maps products is always interesting. I still remember when they first started - 8 February 2005. Google Maps was the first major application that relied really heavily on AJAX. The ability to download grid squares on the fly was pretty amazing and it

(Note: this Article was re-published in Marketing Magazine’s Digital Survival Guide 2007)
Successful marketing engages the right audience and engaging someone is often as simple as providing them with relevant information when they want it. Search marketing has proven the success of this extremely simple idea by delivering targeted text-based advertising to search engine results pages

If so, they may want to place several more Interactive TV job ads on their site, like this one (the first that I’ve heard of). If Google is to take on Apple, Fox and other big TV players in the race to IP-TV and killer internet TV apps then they surely will need a lot

If you read my April Fool’s Day post a few days ago, you would’ve heard about Google’s fictitious new dating product, Google Romance. Well, is Google Dating actually fictitious or not?
As of this past weekend, dating personal ads began appearing on Google Base. Believe it this time.

The city of San Francisco has signed a landmark deal to provide free wireless broadband access to its residents. Under the deal, which is provided via Google and ISP provider Earthlink, San Francisco residents will have access to a free, but ad-supported, wireless broadband service. Faster wireless broadband speeds, presumably also ad-free, would be available

Anyone who closely follows the search industry knows that Google loves to pull an April Fools antic each year. And every year, the punters (and often the press) get sucked right in. Here’s the 2006 effort - Google Romance. Not as funny as some other years past IMO, but still nice of them to make

If you’ve ever had a theory on the next big business idea for Google, this article throws up some interesting conjecture.