There’s a good article posted by Nine by Blue’s Vanessa Fox (who, when working for google was responsible for google’s webmaster central), about why restaurants should care about local search.
Amongst the key points that it makes is that your business needs to take on a holistic approach to its online presence, not concentrating solely on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the new google?’
Free Content isn’t the problem – free advertising is the model killing online media
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Following on from the earlier post about Smashing Magazine’s cash crisis, and the extraordinary measures they’re taking to raise funds, and in response to a comment made there, it struck me that while there’s plenty of talk about how free content is an outdated and unworkable model, hardly anyone talks about the real elephant in [...]
Getting your pages indexed in google’s local search – a google.co.uk case study
Sunday, March 7th, 2010There 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 [...]
Google 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 [...]