Google patent strategy and what it means

August 7th, 2010

Interesting article observing the implications of Google’s patent strategy.

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Typosquater’s rights

March 27th, 2010

Harvard research shows that Google and opportunist website owners are generating significant revenues from so-called ‘Typo-squating’ of mis-spelt domain names featuring ads from the Google Ad Network ‘Adwords’.  

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From IT Pro Magazine

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5 can’t-miss SEO trends

March 15th, 2010

Good article from i-media Connection discussing emerging trends in SEO including rich content strategies and reiterating the fact that as yet there is no snake oil available for search engine domination.

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Keep up, Google to rank sites by speed.

November 17th, 2009

An article from Webpro News featuring interview from Matt Cutts where he argues that site speed is such an important factor that Google may start ranking faster sites higher.  Watch out fancy widget and JS mungers.

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Online kills the video (well TV) Star.

September 30th, 2009

The record spins and in the spirit of the ‘Buggles‘ classic it seems that Online has killed the video (TV) Star. Data released today by the IAB and reported by the BBC confirms that Advertising budgets have finally jumped to Online with Internet advertising revenue now outstripping TV.  Yay!

BBC article

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7 questions to ask your web designer

September 30th, 2009

Good article from iMedia on the working relationship between Clients and Web Design agencies and equally the third party relationship between the client and the agency’s outsourced functions…

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Hello HTML 5

September 30th, 2009

Excellent video blog from ‘Google Developers’ introducing HTML 5 explaining the accelarating user experience becoming available to web users.

Introducing HTML 5

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Argument for Outsourcing SEO

September 7th, 2009

A leading storage company with an established in house web strategy finally gave up on developing SEO campaigns in favour of an outsourced serviced provider.  In this Clickz article the company’s MD explains the reasoning behind what was a difficult decision for an affirmed DIYer.

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Yahoo plays catch up

September 7th, 2009

The significant other search engine ‘Yahoo’ has just announced some significant changes to the service.  Personalised search, streamlined mail and a host of partner applications.  Will it help themtake some market share back?

IAB Article

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Global Top 10 Search terms by sector August 09

September 7th, 2009

The latest Top 10 Search terms as released from ‘Hitwise’ and published through ‘Clickz’

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Google apps developed especially for Portsmouth University

September 7th, 2009

Portsmouth University is expanding its dedicated webmail service by partnering with Google to provide a suite of Google apps including the popular word processor and spreadsheet applications ad free, to students at the South Coast University.

Is this a sign of Google driving uptake of its ‘Office’ competitor through academic communities, after all, it is already a tried and tested route to market strategy, employed regularly by both Microsoft and Adobe with great success.

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Importance of Visual affordance of hyper links within body content

August 23rd, 2009

Excellent article and subsequent comments regarding the importance of affording visual reference to navigation embedded with in the body text and content of a web page and how two newly redesigned high profile News Media sites have seemingly traded accessibility in for aesthetic with the aim of more closely resembleing the print edition…

Econsultancy article

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Beyond Google

July 11th, 2009

Interesting article outlining 9 of the best new Semantic Search Engines.  Although Google is by far the biggest and fastest beast in the paddock, search is evolving…

9 best Semantic Search Engines

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Data Centres at Dawn

June 30th, 2009

Google and Microsoft duel over infrastructure during user meeting

Article from the Register

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Top 25 companies placing sponsored links May 2009

June 27th, 2009

Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, May 2009

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