Is Google on speed?
July 19th, 2007
Anyone involved with search engine marketing cannot have failed to notice the speed at which search engine rankings change these days.
The days of relative stability followed by big fluctuations after the infamous Google dance are long gone and the organic rankings are now in a state of everflux.
In less than one hour, an earlier news article we … Read full article>
Mahalo – a human edited search engine
June 1st, 2007
Mahalo is a new search engine launched by ex Netscape GM and co-founder of Weblogs Inc Jason Calacanis.
This differs from other search engines, as it is human-powered – the 4,000 search terms available so far are all put together by a team of editors.
Calacanis believes that this method will deliver more relevant search results than … Read full article>
Google Power
July 7th, 2006
An interesting read on the Guardian website about concerns over the power the mighty Google has over thousands of businesses.
The article explores the reliance many businesses have on Google for web traffic (especially true in the UK where over 75% of searchers are using Google) and considers the financial impact of being delisted.
A couple of examples … Read full article>
Guaranteed search engine results
March 20th, 2006
A very interesting civil lawsuit has been filed against Google in the US by kinderstart.com who experienced an 80% decline in revenue following Google imposing a site penalty in March 2005.
