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Google drops to 3rd in Alexa global rankings

Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Search Engine Round Table reported that Google has dropped from 2nd place to 3rd in the Alexa top 500 sites. This is a significant shift which puts the top three global players on the web in the following order: www.yahoo.com www.msn.com www.google.com People who think that Google's worl… read more

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Intent driven search from Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
I recently came across this nice research piece from Yahoo! Yahoo! Mindset is an intent driven search allowing you to bias your search results towards either shopping or research using a neat "Web 2.0" looking slider bar at the top of the page (if you leave the slider in its default pos… read more

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Being in the top 5 is nice, but not essential…

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
OK, so the ultimate aim of any SEO effort is to get the page in question to appear in the top 5 of the SERPS and ideally to appear first for a certain keyphrase. There are rumours doing the rounds at the moment that suggest that Google may be reducing page 1 of the SERPS to 5 results instead of 10 t… read more

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Peter Crouch’s Robot Dance

Friday, June 9th, 2006
Did somebody say football? I picked up on this nice footy related post from Heather Hopkins at Hitwise yesterday which graphs some interesting search trends around World Cup keyword search traffic. There are things you would expect to see like high traffic for queries about Beckham's hairstyle and… read more

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Google still rule, but by how much?

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Which search engines are most popular? I decided to do a quick post on how popular each of the major search engines are, partly to highlight the market dominance of Google, but also to show the race for second place. These stats are based on number of referrals to a range of sites that I work with… read more

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Google are hiring….

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Google take out a full page ad in Wired magazine Fancy a job at the googleplex? Google have posted a full page ad in the latest edition of Wired magazine which is a kind of catch all recruitment drive. Now lets run through the checklist - am I: A co-inventer with 19 patents - nope Knowledgea… read more

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Backlinking, Googlebombing and Fuckwits…

Monday, May 15th, 2006
A colleague came into work this morning with a 'Google conundrum' for me - "How come when I search for the keyword fuckwit in Google, it comes back with John Prescotts homepage?". My colleague had scanned the entire page and "surprisingly" couldn't find the keyword anywhere, not in the page title, … read more

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Is social feedback affecting your search ranking?

Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Can data you supply with your mouse clicks affect SERPS? I read an interesting concept recently by SEO/SEM guru Aaron Wall about how Search Engines could make use of (and may already be making use of) social feedback supplied by users as they click through certain search results within SERPS (Searc… read more

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