Blog Posts Tagged 'google'*

Will Google buy Valve?

Posted on 17th September 2008 at 4:44 pm by Ian Macfarlane

Rumours are going round that Google might buy Valve, and through it acquire the leading games distribution platform, Steam. What would this mean for the industry?
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Will Google's new browser heat up the second browser wars?

Posted on 2nd September 2008 at 3:35 pm by Ian Macfarlane

Google has finally unveiled its new web browser, Google Chrome. Will this heat up the browser wars even further?
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Cuil stuff?

Posted on 11th August 2008 at 2:36 pm by Christopher Tate

A new search engine has joined the fray, Cuil.com, set up by several former Google employees. Cuil believe that they can seriously compete with the worlds most popular search engine, but can they?
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To Flash or not to Flash

Posted on 11th July 2008 at 2:14 pm by Robin Parduez

It was announced recently that Google will now be crawling .swf Flash files more efficiently.

This could be viewed as a major technological step-forward. However, is this good or bad for Search?
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Google Content expands

Posted on 20th May 2008 at 9:10 am by Christopher Tate

As of yesterday, Google Content Network has added new advertising partners in North America.
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Get 'Social' with Friend Connect

Posted on 15th May 2008 at 10:46 am by Christopher Tate

Google has released a number of widgets under the banner of Friend Connect, giving site owners the chance to add social features to their web pages.
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Google SiteLinks search boxes revisited.

Posted on 12th March 2008 at 10:46 pm by Manley

Last week we were observing search boxes within Google SiteLinks.

Now that Google has announced that this feature is fully rolled out across Datacenters, it is worth looking at why some sites have them and whether they are a feature that is worth having.
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Google testing site search boxes within SERPs.

Posted on 4th March 2008 at 1:29 pm by Manley

For selected searches Google are inserting a site search input box within the SERPs.

This is only appearing for major organisations and even then, only those who have very distinct, unambiguous names.
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Manual removal of dangerous cults?

Posted on 26th February 2008 at 9:51 am by Manley

At the end of last month a group called Anonymous successfully produced a Google-bomb, targeting the Church of Scientology.

Now the SERPs have changed .

Is this the algorithm working or are we seeing an instance of manual review?
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Targeting individual search engines; a technique from the past?

Posted on 14th February 2008 at 3:22 pm by Manley

There was a time when SEOs were recommending different landing pages for different engines.

Thankfully this has gone the way of meta keyword stuffing, but is there an argument for still focusing campaigns on individual engines or should companies be adopting a more holistic search offering?
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