Posts tagged: google

We have a running discussion at work, generally brought up by Ben after a Twitter related story breaks. This is that Twitter’s great and all, but it doesn’t make any money. Our generally agreed assumptions have been that Twitter is free-loading off the back of Venture Capital and will flop as soon as it’s left [...]

Over the past few years, search engines have been adding more and more content to every search result page. From local listings and maps, to images and tweets. A lot of people find that search results are now too cluttered and it’s difficult to actually see the listings themselves. I’ve developed a Google Chrome extension [...]

I’ve just finished an update to the Site Profiler tool I wrote a couple of months ago. I’ve made some pretty big changes, and I think it’s a lot more useful now. I’m not sure if anyone actually uses it, but here’s what’s changed: Renamed to Page Profiler – makes more sense, as it only [...]

Google has announced today that it’s launching real time search. Simply click the “Latest” tab in the search options menu and you’ll be presented with a live, self-updating stream of up to the second results. It appears to include Twitter, Facebook and blogs, from what I’ve seen and Google claims to be able to rank [...]

Search engine optimisation for IP.Board (IPB) has been coming up a lot at the Invision Power Services forums lately. Unfortunately, as SEO is such an involved and complex subject, but also one that every web developer believes they can authoritatively discuss, a lot of misinformation is passed around in these topics and new users end up [...]