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Search faster with Google Instant Pages
Google has unveiled it’s latest addition in it’s quest for lightning-speed search search - Google Instant pages. Google claims that the new Chrome-only feature will cut between 2 – 5 seconds off of page load times by essentially pre-rendering pages based on the probability of the user clicking on it. Google does this by fetching all images and external resources from the server before the user clicks on the page, meaning waiting times are cut considerably. Imagine walking towards your favourite sandwich…
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Google’s new page design provokes bad response
The web is rife with discussion about Google’s new results page. Google has been testing it’s new-look page over the weekend, making it visible to a small number of select users. The new design, as you will see below, is a lot cleaner than Google’s current results page. There’s a huge amount of white space, the spacing between each result has increased, gone are the underlined blue links, each result…
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Google Panda hits the UK
Earlier this year Google rolled out a major algorithmic change in the US in an effort to provide higher quality search results. Yesterday, Google officially announced the implementation of this “improvement” to all English-language countries. Google Panda, or Farmer, as it’s known is an update that effects the Google algorithm that dictates how your site will rank in the Google results page. The Google Panda update aims to improve the…
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Google launches +1 – finally, something worth sharing
There’s no denying that Google’s social efforts to date have been nothing short of disastrous. Remember Google Buzz? No, neither does anyone else. Probably best that way. But finally, in it’s effort to break in to the social space, Google may have created something that may actually be of interest. Meet Google +1. In a nutshell, +1 allows you to endorse websites by clicking a button displayed next to sites…
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Is Google going to punish keyword rich domains?
At the end of February, Google announced changes to its algorithm which aimed to improve the quality of its search results and reduce the rankings of low-quality content farms in favour of original, high-quality websites In a recent YouTube video, Matt Cutts shares his views on domains and the brand vs. keyword debate. In the video Cutts strongly emphasises his preference for “brand-able” domains and how the majority of the…
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Google Wave lives on as Apache Wave
Google Wave was the most hyped launch of 2009, but unfortunately failed to attract users and failed spectacularly. Google pulled the plug in August and open-sourced the code in September. Two weeks ago Google announced that it had submitted a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. Mission being – bring Wave back from the dead. In Google’s proposal to Apache, the company’s goals were to migrate the codebase from…
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Google adds social site links to search results
This week Google has rolled out social sitelinks to search results, giving direct access to your friends social content online. Google blogged, “Usually when you search for a social site like Twitter or MySpace, you’re looking for information from your friends and social network, like their tweets and profile pages”. So with this in mind, social sitelinks display your friends recent content at the top of the results page. For…
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Is Google Wave back from the dead?
Google Wave was the most hyped launch of 2009, it promised a new way of communication that was set to eliminate email forever. The project received rave reviews from early testers and tech heads alike. However, perhaps Wave’s biggest problem was that it was a little ahead of time and too advanced for the ‘every day user’. Unfortunately, Google Wave failed spectacularly, its user base soon diminished, and it wasn't…
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Google Docs goes mobile
Google announced on Wednesday morning that it has begun rolling out mobile editing for Google Docs. The update isn’t yet available for everyone, but it should be available to all over the next few days. The Google Docs for mobile service will allow you to; Access you documents list so you can create, search, star and open your documents on the go. Edit your documents – edits you make on…
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Google launches Boutiques.com
Google announced this week that it has launched Boutiques.com: “a personalized shopping experience that lets you find and discover fashion goods, by creating your own curated boutique or through a collection of boutiques curated by taste-makers, celebrities, stylists, designers and fashion bloggers”. Realising some time ago that there was an opportunity in the online fashion market, Google has been working to create an all together better ‘soft goods’ shopping experience…
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