Google throws cat amongst mortgage pigeons
There are a number of potentially sensitive products that Google are currently working on or are close to release phase at present including Google Real Estate currently being trialled in both the US and Australia and the secured loans merchant search options that were beta’d a while back.
That early testing now seems to have paved [...]
Using Google Insights to predict the X Factor results
Update:Saw this tweet run past on Twitter earlier today: just heard from @debbypenton that if last weekend was the X Factor final & it was decided by votes – John & Edward would have won!!! crazy – http://twitter.com/kerrymdavis/statuses/5196890674. I can only second that last comment
I like many people was spending Sunday night watching the X [...]
Strange results in Google, blanked out results?
Following on from @davenaylor’s earlier tweet on yet another Google geo-targeting fail, I decided to go on a quick snoop around the Google search results.
One of the stranger results I came across was this one – when typing the query in ‘Google Pluto’
The result itself is one for the Google 3D warehouse project, however you [...]
Google Keywords & Description not used for ranking – Meta Tag 101 revisited
In a move that would have suprised absolutely no-one Matt Cutts has confirmed what nearly everyone else already knew – that the use of the keyword metatag from the standard Google Websearch was obselete. On a post on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Matt Cutts outlined the rationale for not using the meta keywords data [...]
Microsoft doing some research on Google SERP improvements?
One of the little tools I have installed on the Holistic Search blog is Statscounter, something I find hugely useful in terms of tracking visitors to the site. One of the more interesting visits came today with a visit from a Microsoft IP address (strangely enough from Google rather than Bing)
The query itself comes from [...]
Google accredited SEO courses – Sorry
I was disappointed to read Lisa Myers earlier post regarding the Reed Learning SEO course which due to a ‘misunderstanding’ appears to have not got the Google accreditation they were expecting as Lisa explained below
Google don’t want to be associated with any SEO courses and didn’t agree to endorse this course as part of the [...]
Google still playing around with show options link on search results pages
A while back we talked about the inclusion of plus boxes in the Google search results pages, however it was only today I noticed a subtle change to the show options parameter found in the top blue bar on Google UK searches
Take a look at this image from my earlier ‘Google Killing Localised Search‘ post [...]
Help test Google’s next generation infrastructure
It appears that there is a never ending cycle of new developments constantly taking place at Google these days. If it is not tweaks to SERPs, it is the launch of a new product or developments within the Google infrastructure. This is something that has always served Google well, and something which will continue to [...]
Google add ’show more results from’ to natural results
Googles ever changing SERP’s page appears to have seen another change over the weekend in the UK with the addition of the ’show more results from site’ appearing below specific results. This would appear to be limited primarily to certain brand terms from the limited testing thus far – and we have seen little or [...]
Will the Yahoo/Bing deal change the search landscape
It would appear that the long mooted Microsoft/Yahoo search deal has now been concluded according to a number of high profile publications such as TechCrunch and Search Cowboys. The official press release goes as follows:
Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape
Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers
SUNNYVALE, CA and REDMOND, WA — 29 July, 2009 [...]
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