There has always been plenty of debate about the importance of choosing an appropriate tld (top level domain, like .com, .ie, .co.uk etc), and choosing a hosting service based in your main target market.
Until recently the common wisdom was that, if you wanted to rank well in a specific local search engine index, like for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the new google?’
Getting your pages indexed in google’s local search – a google.co.uk case study
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Google makes advances in image recognition
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Google has just published an interesting research paper which suggests that they have made big advances in the image-recognition software field. At a computer vision and pattern recognition conference in Miami recently, Jay Yagnik, google’s head of vision research claimed that their new system has had an 80% accuracy in identifying untagged images of up [...]
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 [...]

