Posts for Google

Below are a few gripes for August 2010!  These are my own personal grumpy old SEO engineer moans and may not reflect anyone else’s experience, but for what it’s worth here they are: Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danete/62162437/ Google Gripe no.1   Advanced Search If you select an advanced search to display 100 listings per page then it generates [...]

Google in their seemingly never-ending quest to conquer every possible monetisable element of the internet, have added yet another featured box to their search results, above those returned organically. A search for ‘credit cards’ reveals Google’s latest addition, Google Comparison Ads: Note the second coloured box above the number one natural result, entitled ‘Compare Credit [...]

Music mogul Simon Cowell, judge on a myriad of over-the-top talent shows, has been suggested to be using SEO to manage his online reputation; ensuring any Google search of his name returns only positive results. – Although the Cowell camp denies the manipulation of Google results (Cowell’s UK spokesman called it a conspiracy theory), a [...]

Microsoft’s Bing showed some growth in June according to a report just out from US Internet marketing research company, comScore Inc.  Although still eating the dust from Google way out in front, Bing showed greater growth than its main search rival last month, with its share in the U.S. market increasing from 12.1% in May [...]