So the big news in recent weeks has been the presentation of Google Wave, due to be fully launched later in the year. You can check out the presentation here.
As with virtually any new search/social media release, there’s immediate talk of it being a *killer – with twitter being the * in this particular case. [...]
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The problem with AJAX and Flash – in terms of google indexing
Monday, June 1st, 2009There’s a great article by Vanessa Fox over at SearchEngineLand.com which, taking its lead from triumphant announcements at the Google I/O conference, discusses the still very real problems some sites have in being effectively indexed and ranked in google and other search engines because of their use of AJAX and Flash – two very [...]
Moving domains – an expert experiments
Monday, May 25th, 2009Back in April Google guru Matt Cutts decided to move his blog from his www.mattcutts.com domain to another that he owns, www.dullest.com, changing host and ip address at the same time. All things that can have an impact on how your website performs both for visitors and for search engines.
Now he’s moved it back, and [...]
Wolfram Alpha Bologna Conundrum
Monday, May 18th, 2009Like many people over the last couple of days, I’ve headed over to Wolfram Alpha to see this new engine that will supposedly provide definitive answers to factual queries. An ‘answer engine’ as it were, as opposed to Google’s search engine.
It’s early days, and perhaps unfair to start hitting out at the results provided from [...]
Matt Cutts is a big fan of Google’s ‘Spellmeleon’ – should you be too?
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009The head of Google’s web-spam team, Matt Cutts has been talking about some features that are already in google’s search results, though you may not have noticed them. In particular he’s been talking about the google spell-checking features – giving us a glimpse into the internal workings by revealing two different features and their inhouse [...]
Understanding some Web 2.0 fundamentals (with the help of Tim O’Reilly)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009There’s a great conversation up on Fora.tv between Tim O’Reilly – the publishing guru who was at the forefront of coining and defining the term Web 2.0 – which we recommend to anyone who’s thinking about setting up a website. For those of you who are up to date with online trends and developments it [...]
Thoughts from the outset on the Bodu Blog
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009You can’t constantly keep advising clients that they should embrace blogging and social networks to promote their site if you don’t do it yourself, and so with that in mind Boduweb has decided to start its own blog.
Not that we’re new to blogging, having set up countless blogs for different customers – often providing content [...]