Search Engines Archive

Weekend Update Not Panda #22 But Google Says Its Coming!

Website owners across the world were reporting that they had seen dramatic movements within the search engines over the weekend, some seeing sites plummet deep into the darkest corners of the search ranking spectrum and with such big changes, people were laying claim to the fact that they thought that there had been a Google [...]

Flights to Chicago: Google Local spam

Google local can be a bit of an achilles heel for the search giant. Today, looking for flights to Chicago, Anthony came across this little number (cheers dude!) Firstly, I want a cheap flight to Chicago so I’m not even sure why I’m seeing a map of Chicago. It doesn’t seem very relevant does it? [...]

Don’t Make The Same Mistakes As Bit.ly and Tr.im

I wrote a post yesterday about the dangers of allowing (some) custom shortened URLs. Really though, I only talked about one particular name on one particular shortener, so I’ll try to make this a little more general. Incidentally, bit.ly appear to have fixed their robots.txt as of a couple of hours ago – they obviously [...]

Google Flu Trends a Winner

Google react quickly to what was deemed a relatively uninformative product, just in the nick of time  a new version of flu trends specifically catering for Mexico appears. The service now seems to be an accurate form of tracking the spread of Swine Flu. Whilst the service initially lacked in terms of giving advance warning, [...]

Wolfram Alpha Answer to Google ?

Yet another program aimed at bettering a search engine  – Wolfram Alpha appears, this time questions inputted will be answered directly by grabbing  raw data already available from public sources and feeds. I’m just wondering how effective this will be in terms of gathering quality information?   Immediate claims are it will be like having an [...]

Google Streets Ahead

According to the UK  information commissioner there is only a small risk of invasion of privacy with Google Street view. Spotting breaches of privacy isn’t always that simple I don’t think, with such a growing entity like street view surely a line needs to be drawn somewhere. The question I ask is what’s acceptable for [...]

Gmail Down Google Mail Problems

Yes it’s that time again Gmail is down. Even the BBC have posted a news item this time on the gmail outage. The service has been down since roughly 9.30 this morning. Personally, I love the Gmail service for the sheer amount of storage space it offers, but it’s only when you can’t access the [...]

Google on a Cloud

The offline support introduced by Google for Gmail is most welcome in my eyes. Google have responded to multiple requests for offline support and you can now test it for yourself after downloading Google Gears. Its thought the ability to use Google Calendar offline will be coming shortly too. The feature enables access to Gmail [...]

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