Google claims it hasn’t made significant changes to its mapping software. Yet local data for the Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia is not appearing. This is in sharp contrast to Google Earth which supplies local data down to building levels. (They must have the data then?)Microsoft again is the winner here with its Virtual Earth product [...]

Gmail is one of my favourite mail systems. Why ? Well, I guess it true I never really delete anything and the storage capacity is huge. However, the outage I experienced yesterday was also huge: “We’re sorry, but your [Gmail]* account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these [...]

It’s fair to say Google have been blighted by issues of privacy over the last few month’s. What could be a better time then to release even more information about its users search requests ? Meet “insights for search” a free service aimed at marketers which will be an extension of Google Trends. We will [...]

yer I know it’s against the grain at the moment to say that Knol should be ranking, but at the end of the day the how to backpack is a good well written article with over 74 comments, and our industry leaders like Danny Sullivan linking to it .. and all the scrapers DaveN

Recently I blogged about maybe links aren’t so important any more, I didn’t want to really give out the example I had found, but Richard Young and Myself where chatting about this early today, and I feel that google has created a Time Machine Bot : ok let me try to explain what I mean [...]

This is so so weird, I have had a feeling for a year or so that Google would move away from Links and Pagerank as we know it today. Well I think we are starting to see the first sign of it, over the last few weeks an industry I work in has had a [...]

SEroundtable Pointed me to to a story about “Another Insulting Algorithmic Search Result from Google” I didn’t want to blog about the swastika on Google Trends, but this is kinda odd, when you search for Special People you get : Ok WTF ! DaveN