Archive for September, 2008
Yet more duplicate content fuzz
Read this post from Google on duplicate content, then read (and pay more attention to) Graywolf’s post. I was going to blog about this whole thing, but Graywolf has summarized it well. All I’d add is that Google are playing a dangerous game by pretending that they can handle duplicate content. What Google are effectively [...]
Read More..>>Has Web 2.0 finally jumped the shark?
A social network for dead people in the Techcrunch 50?!??!!
Read More..>>Is your web analytics solution causing duplicate content?
Duplicate content is a pervasive problem for a lot of websites, and can be difficult to understand for the average webmaster. Recently, I’ve come across problems caused by a couple of big name web analytics packages. The issue stems from the use of various URL parameters to track a visitor’s session on a website. This [...]
Read More..>>Over-powerful domain authority in Google
Some interesting results for the query [airline tickets] in Google today – at numbers 3 & 4 there are 2 results from Bebo, the well-known airline ticket supplier. Hang on, Bebo – isn’t that a social networking site rather than an airline ticketing company? As outlined by Trend Labs recently in a post entitled Spam [...]
Read More..>>Google tinfoil hat theory #1
I’m making a new resolution to blog less about Google from now on – they already dominate the online conversation about just about everything apart from hardware, and really don’t need the extra exposure. However I think there aren’t enough conspiracy theories about Google’s world domination (rofl) – so here’s another one: Google releases facial [...]
Read More..>>Firefox shortcuts with Ubiquity
As Robert Scoble writes, it’s only for passionate internet users (at the moment anyway), but the Firefox plugin Ubiquity has awesome potential for changing the way we use the internet – watch this video to learn more. Ubiquity is one of a number of tools currently knocking around that look into changing the way we [...]
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