Archive for the ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ Category

While Google and Bing have spent the past 12 months building social sites and claiming that they’re really good at search, honest, Yahoo have quietly been biding their time.

Buoyed by the recent takedown of MegaUpload, the entertainment industry in the UK have set their sights on the biggest suppliers of pirated material in the world. The search engines Google and Bing.

If you’re currently signed up for a Google Account, the chances are that you’ll have received an email from Google, explaining that they’re changing their privacy policy. We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers [...]

He might be the first Pontiff to embrace social media, but it looks like Pope Benedict XVI hasn’t yet decided whether using Twitter is a vice or a virtue.

Remember when Google’s famous motto was Don’t Be Evil? Well Twitter, Facebook and Myspace do. Which is why they’ve joined forces to combat what they see as Google’s unholy evil alliance of search and social.

Google CEO Larry Page has claimed Google+’s userbase has doubled to just over 90 million users in just three months. But other Google products are feeling the pinch.

We warned you that this would happen. Despite a last minute plea from the White House that the Stop Online Privacy Act would be stopped in its tracks, some of the internet’s most popular sites are taking a stand against government interference in what they publish.

Bing on the March

16, Jan 2012

It’s not been a good week for Google. First, Google+’s integration into search went down like a lead balloon, then the continuing anti-trust probe announced that they’d be investigating social search, before Rupert Murdoch decided to make the papers by calling Google pirates. So after seven days like that, you can imagine that Google wouldn’t [...]

Yesterday, we mentioned that Google have decided to show you social results when you search Google.com. But only from their own social network. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it took the internet about an eighth of a second to decide that this was a stupid idea.

In their infinite wisdom, Google’s search team have decided that when you search Google.com, you really want to search Google+. So as of today, they’re beginning to drop your social data into your search results.


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