So the Google homepage was lauded because it was hugley usable. Removed all superfluous nonsense to allow users to complete what they wanted to do at Google which was search. The white background made Google simple to understand. So I read on Twitter about some horrendous image thing kicking in over at Google; “Google’s turned [...]
Category Archives: Search Engines
Huge arrows on PPC sitelinks in Google
May 28, 2010 – 9:25 am
I’m really starting to hate the PPC testing at Google – they call it usability improvements. There again I can’t blame ‘em for trying to improve the profitability of their products. Today I was searching for a few brands to see about getting some new life insurance. And I see the following when I search [...]
Tenders, eastenders and the chameleon search is still awful
January 22, 2010 – 4:11 pm
Over the past couple of weeks there has been discussions going on around the way that Google.co.uk result sets are being formed to do with “search engine optimisation” and “search engine optimization”. Two of the better posts come from Sean @ Hobo and Andrew Girdwood from BMM (yes they’re dofollow links to competing sites – [...]
What the Yell are you upto!
January 21, 2010 – 11:29 am
There are some days when I start to hate the ways of the online world, and Colin (who’s used to work with me over the Equator SEO company and is now working for himself over at Boyd Digital) just posted about the hassles and pains he’s been having with Yell. Basically wasting his time with [...]
Another example of Google Local being rubbish
January 20, 2010 – 5:16 pm
It is to Google eternal disservice that the local results for queries delivers such utter rubbish within its result set – too much rubbish. People who are not helping me get to useful data filling up the entire system or trying to get affiliate commissions just wasting what can be a really useful service. I’ve [...]
Intelligence (Beta) option in Google Analytics
October 28, 2009 – 10:01 am
I’ve just logged into Google Analytics, and found a new option just below the dashboard option listed as Intelligence Beta. Can’t find anything about it on the Google Blog It would appear to allow the functionality to set trigger points for the website in relation to the traditional Google Analytics metrics and dimensions. It looks [...]
Google Logo Changes
March 20, 2009 – 11:21 am
Every day you go to Google they seem to have a new logo. Its getting to be a bit dull now – it was fun to see a changed logo every so often but now its just silly. I cant remember the last time I actually saw the good old fashioned Google Logo. That said [...]
Online Google Analytics Training
March 4, 2009 – 10:17 am
Just got an email from PPC Andy about this Google offering online training in Google Analytics. I’m trying to pencil in time over the next few weeks to run through some of the stuff they’ve got listed – I really like messing about with the custom reporting modules just now but it looks like there [...]
Google.com – Any Time, Any Language, Any File
February 16, 2009 – 12:23 pm
I’m not on google.com very often – most of my clients work in google.co.uk as their main traffic driver (as they’re in the UK) but today I was running some tests in google.com and I started to get different lopoking result sets: So the bit in red is the part where I could refine [...]
You, Me, Carpark, NOW…
November 4, 2008 – 1:21 pm
Always liked the ring of that phrase. Far better than ‘Hi, how are you?’. Anyway have been running about the web trying to work out WTF Google has been upto recently – results are so screwey its half cock up (think Chris Iwelumo against Norway) and half comedy show (Homer Simpson’s been left in charge [...]