Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Chrome: The good, the bad and the ugly

Chrome: Google’s new browser. The only way you would not have heard about this is if you’re hiding under a rock as all the technology news sites are talking about it; certainly Techmeme has been flooded with information about it over the last couple of days. So .. here are...

SEO: Is it really fair on the consumer?

I’ve just come from an interesting post on FuelMyBlog’s blog entitled: SEO wins gold, silver and bronze. It’s an interesting post that compares SEO to the Olympics and The Guinness Book of Records. Here’s a snippet from the post: A lot of SEO technology is used to make sure weaker...

Where are you left if the Cloud goes down?

The web was ablaze yesterday with people complaining about the latest outage of Gmail. It started with AnaisAmy asking for help on Twitter as she had problems getting to Gmail. Withing a few minutes quite a few people were posting Tweets to the same effect. Turns out Gmail had a...

Page Rank dropped? Maybe I can explain why ..

I noticed something interesting today. I was playing with some SEO tools to understand how Google ranks sites a bit better and decided to check how many inbound links Google thinks this site has. I fired up Google and tried: link:http://www.u-g-h.com/ Google reported a grand total of 248 websites that...

Cuil enters the fray

The interesting news today was the launch of Cuil (pronounced cool), a search engine that boasts having a larger number of pages that Google in it’s index. While this may sound like a good thing, in theory Google does a great job of filtering out duplicate pages and spam sites;...

The Web is huge

According to Google, well, according to anyone, the Web is huge. Except that Google know exactly how huge it is. You see, the have just released a post with some interesting metrics: apparently they have a trillion URLs in their database. Apparently they don’t index them all, some are considered...

All your MMSs are belong to us

Interesting article on Information Week about how Google can help someone snoop through O2s MMS databank. O2 have taken a decision to protect people’s photos by simply obfuscating the URLs, but Google can easily work it’s way through *that* barrier. MMS is a technology used to send photos using mobile...

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