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Google Reveals the Chrome Operating System To All
Google has finally revealed the code of its Chrome operating system to the public. Chrome OS is an open source operating system, much like the Linux operating system. This essentially means that users do not have to purchase it, and there is no adver...
Google Provides More Templates for Google Sites
Google is developing Google Sites into a new free web hosting service. Maybe they have responded to the closure of Yahoo’s Geocities. They have stated that they have seen a large increase in businesses using Google Sites. I’m pleased to a...
New site hierarchies display in search results
Interesting changes to the way Google displays search results. In addition to the website URL it will also show a breadcrumn style trail from the homepage whenever it can. Posted: 17 Nov 2009 08:02 AM PST Google usually shows a green web address, ...
Google Android Eclair Released to Developers
Google has released version 2 of its Android operating system to Android application developers. We are expecting to see a lot more synchronisation with the new Android OS. Although much is under wraps sill, we are expected there to be photo and vide...
How To Translate A Website Into Any Language
If you want to reach a global audience (and why wouldn’t you?) then the easiest way to appeal to more people is to provide an easy way for them to see your website in their own language. Although auto-translation tools do not provide a particul...
Google Wave Update
Google Wave is set to be a pretty exciting new Internet platform. Testing is starting, so soon we should be hearing more about it. Hopefully soon it will be ready for public use! Starting Wednesday, September 30 we’ll be sending out more tha...
Happy Birthday Confucius
You may be wondering what Confucius’ birthday has to do with the study of the Internet. Well, not a lot. But Google’s Search logo today is in honour of the man, so I thought that I would mention it. I just went to Google to search for som...
Google Mail is Broken Again! Server Down. No Warning. Outage! Outrage!
Temporary Error (503) We’re sorry, but your Google Mail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. Once again the GMail servers have died. Right in the middle of the...
Eric Schmidt Slates Murdoch’s Idea to Charge for Internet News
Eric Schmidt, a Google CEO, has told a group of British broadcastings chiefs that Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge for online news content cannot work, as there is already so much high quality news that is available for free. However, he does ad...
Facebook Starts Making a Profit
Facebook now has 300 million users, and has announced that it has finally started making a profit. This is solid proof that although social media and networking sites are good fun, they are not a good business model, at least not for start ups. If an...
Adsense in Your Pocket
Now that mobile technology is progressing well, and more an more websites are producing mobile versions, and that Google offer mobile targeted Adsense / Adwords advertising, now is the time to start thinking about the best way to win the Adsense in Y...
T-Mobile & Orange To Merge Mobile Phone Businesses
News is afoot that T-Mobile and Orange are planning to merge their businesses and make a united stand against the growing competition. This could be good news for Google and its Android Mobile OS as potentially G1 and its successors could be marketed...
Is GMail Broken Again?
I cannot access GMail of Google Chat. Other Google products appear to be working. Actually, Analytics is playing up, as earlier I could not set up a new account. Sudden feeling of panic – over reliance on Google and the cloud? OK, ISP’s i...
Google Announces Multiple Ad Networks in AdSense
Some exciting news for web publishers that use the Google Adsense advertising network on their sites, as Google have announced some changes that are coming along soon. Currently Adsense publishers can only display the adverts that Adwords customers s...
Nokia and Microsoft to Produce New Smartphones
Nokia and Microsoft and joining forces to produce a new range of smartphones (mobiles with internet access, email, social networking etc.). Between them they hope to strengthen their market position against the highly successful Blackberry from RIM, ...
Is Your Business Ready to “Go Google”?
Google are now actively promoting their product to a wider audience – al professional companies and businesses across the globe. They are explaining to people how and why they should use their office products, i.e. email, documents, messaging e...
Google Chief Eric Schmidt Quits Apple Board
Google’s SEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple’s board of directors. The reason is the increasing rivalry between the two companies, and the issue that two of the biggest tech companies in the world are sharing directors can have implicati...
Webmasters Are Hacking Sites to Game the Search Engines
Matt Cutts, Google’s spokesperson for its search engine spam team, has announced that there are more and more cases of cheeky black hat SEOers hacking into flaky websites to place their links, to game the Google search engine. As everyone knows...
How Ads Can Screw Up Your SEO: Bloomberg.com Example
I love Bloomberg.com, it is possibly my favourite financial news website. Being the lazy person that I so often am though, I do sometimes use Google to navigate to the website, even though I am quite aware of how the address bar in the browser works....
Google Declared a Facilitator of Web Content, Not a Publisher
Yesterday Google was in the UK High Court. The ruling was in favour of Google, and was that Google is not liable for any defamatory comments that appear in its SERPs (search engine results pages). Mr. Justice Eady ruled that Google’s search eng...
Follow Google on Twitter
Just seen the latest blog post from Google, and surprised at the number of Twitter accounts that Google has. Here is a full listing of Google’s Twitter pages: twitter.com/Google – our central account twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogg...
Google Explains its Latest Map Search Results
Today Google explains a little more about the developments with its photo-mapping search engine. From now on, if there is a photo of a place available relevant to a location specific search request, it will be shown alongside the search results. Sin...
Google Finally Annouces Chrome OS
Yes, after months weaiting for the big news to be released, Google have finally announced that the deskop / laptop / netbook operating system will be called Chrome OS, and it will be available soon. Really we all new as soon as Google released A...
Google Comes Of Age as Conservatives Suggest Storing NHS Data on its Servers
The British conservative party have suggested that they will use Google or Microsoft to store and manage patient data for the National Health Service. This may come as a surprise to most web users who still think of Google as still being just a searc...
Bing To Show Twitter Updates in Search Results
Bing is taking its battle with the mighty Google seriously. When Bing was first launched people thought that it was simply a rebranding of the old Microsfot Search Engine. But they have bigger plans in the pipeline, and are looking at ways to get fre...
Google Adsense Now Shows Earnings in Pounds
For all the British Adsense clients out there, there is some good news. You can now switch your reporting from USD to GBP. Finally daily revenue can be seen immediately, without having to look up the current FX rate and grabbing the calculator. I am ...
Beginners SEO: “I recently published my first website, but Google does not list me”
“I recently published my first website” That says it all. How recently? How many pages? How many links coming in? Plenty of unique, well written content? Relevant to theme of site? It takes time. You may be in a very competitive market. ...
Google Finally Declares Bing.com a Search Engine
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, has now been with us for a couple of weeks. There has been a lot of excitement throughout the webmaster world. Will Bing rival Google? Will it be another dud search engine? Some people are reporting that Bin...
Google’s Wacky Tetris Search Logo
Just seen today’s custom Google Search logo, and it is in celebration of 25 years of the Tetris effect. Looks pretty funky, certainly caught my eye and made me ask - what the hell? If you fancy playing Tetris online now, the best way is to visi...
Google Error Causes World’s Largest Traffic Jam
Yesterday Google managed to cause the world’s largest ever traffic jam. However, we are not talking about trouble on the roads, but internet traffic. Due to a technical glitch, yesterday thousands of people were almost cut off from the internet...
