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Vatican Googlebombed

Vatican Googlebombed

Googlebombs! In case you think i’ve gone slightly mad, I shall explain. Googlebombing is a technique to influence the ranking of certain sites within Google results by having a large amount of pages with the same anchor text linking to one site. Some notable examples of this are: – Upon typing ‘miserable failure’ into Google [...]

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Could Google’s App Inventor Ruin Andoid?

Could Google’s App Inventor Ruin Andoid?

With the relatively slow uptake of Android (compared to initial sales of the iPhone and apps), Google has decided to release an ‘App Inventor’ for their new mobile OS.  It comes in the form of a visual ‘drag and drop’ web interface rather than a large, complicated source developers kit, and requires no programming at [...]

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Google Games next up?

Google Games next up?

Google always seems to be in the news lately, with rumours constantly abounding about their next venture. So far there has been the ‘Facebook killer’ in Google Me (just a rumour currently), Google Voice (a Skype style VIOP program), the recent acquisition of ITA Travel to create ‘Google Travel’ or something, Google Chrome OS, Google [...]

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Google Chrome OS – the future?

Google Chrome OS – the future?

As we all know, Google ventured into the world of Internet browsers a while back with ‘Google Chrome’. An excellent addition to the browser market, it was a slow starter but figures now show it has overtaken Apple’s own Safari to become the third most popular browser. Google, however, intends to take it further by [...]

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‘Google Me’ To Rival Facebook?

‘Google Me’ To Rival Facebook?

A few characters from a Twitter post sparked massive debate on Saturay night: This post comes from Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and has since been removed. This has, of course, done nothing to quell the rumours. Further confirmation came in the form of ex-Facebook head Adam D’Angelo, who said: ‘Here is what I’ve pieced [...]

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How Does Google Do At SEO?

How Does Google Do At SEO?

I found this enlightening video on YouTube of Matt Cutts discussing how Google does at search engine optimisation in general. The answer might surprise you! The talk references Google’s SEO report card, which we mentioned in an earlier post. It just goes to show you have even the biggest search engine in the world can [...]

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Google SEO Report Card

Google SEO Report Card

Google’s SEO Report Card Looking through through the Google Webmaster Blog the other day i stumbled across this; Google’s SEO report card – created to help Google’s engineers and employees better optimise their product pages for search engines, this card proves even Google are aware of and actively participating in search engine optimisation.The report touches [...]

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