Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

Google’s spam team still operational, slap Aviva for dodgy link-building

There’s been speculation recently as to whether Google actually pay attention to dodgy link-building tactics. eConsultancy carried a fairly damning article that implied the Google spam team weren’t paying attention – and judging by the articles, it was true… A bit of recent digging revealed that maybe the spam team have just been held up whilst [ READ MORE ]

Give the gift of Google Chrome

Just spotted that Google are touting a microsite called www.givechrome.com. It’s essentially a fancy ‘email a friend’ mechanism, but it’s been quite nicely done – with options to wrap your present and send a personalised e-card to your friend, informing them of their new present. It’s not ground-breaking, but I like it. Screenshots below! [ READ MORE ]

Duplicate content in search engines

There’re various opinions around how Google and other search engines deal with duplicate content. Google’s comments on the matter give an indication of how they deal with it, and the main takehome points are: They can usually spot unintentional (i.e non-malicious) duplicate content In the above case, Google will simply index the content it feels most relevant [ READ MORE ]

Google Maps introduces 3d buildings

Just a quick note to point out that Google Maps has introduced a feature that shows buildings as 3d objects on the map. Click here to see it in action on Google Maps. Useful! But when did they do this? And why is it only in Cardiff? [ READ MORE ]

Twitter: the new paid-for link service?

We’ve all heard recently about how Google & Microsoft are now indexing the Twitter-feed. Does this mean Twitter will become the future of paid-for links? eConsultancy have raised an interesting point about this, and conclude that it’s gonna be hard to distinguish between valuable links tweeted vs those that are paid for. Quite frankly, I predict at [ READ MORE ]

Google’s G1 update

As the proud owner of a Google G1, I’ve always been a fan of the handset’s functionality and the Android OS’ general affability. However, a number of things irked me – namely the lack of decent battery life, and the occasionally clunky user-journey. However, they’ve changed all that with a recent nifty update – huzzah! We now [ READ MORE ]