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February 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google.
Several news and technical commentary sites have been pronouncing the arrival of Google’s Bigdaddy datacentre over the last few weeks, and looking at the stats for this site over the last few days I might be seeing it’s effect - hits from Google are up. After a little digging, I reckon the rollout is 50% complete. More…
December 3rd, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth.
Just a quickie this, because there’s so much to look at. Google Earth has just had a major data update for the UK. More…
November 20th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Society.
I’m going to stick my neck out and make a prediction. I was thinking around the subject of Google Analytics just now, considering the increased information that Google now have. It’s a short leap of faith to guess that Google will use the data that Google Analytics provides in order to improve or reinforce their PageRank algorithm, and I’m sure most people have twigged that by now. To suggest that would be to make the mistake of thinking Google is still a search company. More…
November 18th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth, Nice Things.
The data from Google Analytics has started to roll in, and the highlight (from a purely human point of view) is certainly the map view which shows where on Earth everybody who visits this site comes from. More…
November 14th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Releases, Website, WordPress.
This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of <>’s. More…
October 17th, 2005, by Rich, in Google.
I’ve hit a major flaw with Google Search this week. A significant number of the technical searches that I’m doing are providing results where one particular company is at the top of the list.
This company has the answers I need, but they don’t provide them for free. The top result appears to be an exact match to my question, so I click it, only to find that “it’s them again”. More…
September 27th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth, Nice Things.
Google has recently added some new aeriel images to the Google Earth Database, and one of the places that has received significantly better coverage is Portsmouth, UK.
Portsmouth College provide some fantastic (historical and current) aeriel pictures of Portsmouth on their website, so I thought I’d try comparing them to see just how good the rendering in Google Earth really is. More…
September 14th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Slashdot.
Google launched what appears to be an early beta of it’s Blog Search today. It has one Killer feature, and some noteworthy mentionables. More…
September 7th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Nice Things, Open Standards, Politics.
Chris Samuel, pictured (naturally) with a cup of tea here, has just posted this wonderfully cogent message regarding the importance of open standards in government IT. More…
August 24th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Slashdot.
Google Talk enters it’s beta phase today. It’s an instant messaging and Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) application. The burning question is, of course, can it be a replacement for other instant messaging clients? More…
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