Google plus selling Blogger in related SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 22nd, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Branding, Google, Google Adsense, Marketing, SpeculationSome snippets popping up in “blog” related search queries on Google now plus selling Blogger. Example:
Google news description blunder
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 14th, 2006 Published in: Google, Rants n DramaJust got a hat tip from Dave at Square Angle about this one. The description has been changed now, but this appeared on the homepage of UK Google News:
Oi! Take your site down!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 11th, 2006 Published in: General, Google, Search Engine OptimisationFunny email posted on Dean’s blog - a request from another site who Dean out ranked (naturally) asking that Dean remove his blog from the Google SERP! The reasoning being that a “business” site is more deserving to have the top spot than a blog…
10 points for insane effort.
WebProNews / Randfish interview with Vanessa Fox
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 8th, 2006 Published in: GoogleNice interview here worth a watch by Randfish, covering Google sitemaps, PageRank and some other issues relating to Google.
First off, Vanessa clarifies the difference between a dup content filter and dup content penalty. Basically the good word is that Google can happily deal with these issues in house, but people can use Google sitemaps to define […]
DaveN’s search test & MattCutts.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 4th, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Google, MSN, Search Engine Optimisation, SpeculationLast week DaveN squared a little test with Matt to see how MSN handled 301 redirects. It seems Google is having a little issue with it as well…
Nice to see some companies have a sense of humour
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 30th, 2006 Published in: AskNice little satirical blog post at the Ask.com blog, poking some fun at Google’s recent explanation of the use of the word “Google”. My favourite quote:
Q: Do people Google on Ask?
A: Looking at our logs, people do seem to google on Ask.com. They type in “google” and go to Google. They also do this with […]
MSN launch YouTube rival - Soapbox
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 20th, 2006 Published in: MSNThe BBC are reporting that MSN are due to release a rival to YouTube, named Soapbox. The system is currently in invitation only Beta.
Playing the copyright card (which Google’s YourTube has received quite a lot of criticism over), MSN said, “it will take down any copyrighted material uploaded by users without permission once it is alerted […]