Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal. A Google Killer?

The big news story hot off the press today in the search engine world, is the 10 year deal agreed between Yahoo! and Microsoft when it comes to shar­ing search tech­no­logy and advert­ising rev­enue.
The formal press release on the Microsoft site is here with their asso­ci­ated web­site for the concept avail­able here.

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Page 1 of Google for Only £75 per Month

One of our web host­ing cli­ents emailed me today say­ing that he’d received a cold called from a search engine mar­ket­ing com­pany prom­ising to get his web­site lis­ted on page 1 of Google’s search res­ults pages (SERPS) for “only” £75 per month.
The cli­ent wanted to know if it was a “good deal” or a com­plete rip […]

Get­ting Local Down with Google Local

For some­time now Google, through its Local Busi­ness Cen­ter, has presen­ted in its SERPS (Search Engine Res­ults Pages) a list of nearby com­pan­ies and ser­vices that are thought to be rel­ev­ant to a loc­al­ised search.
To demon­strate what I mean, try search­ing with the keyword phrase “com­mer­cial phở­to­graph­ers in Leeds” (note the geo­graph­ical mod­i­fier phrase for […]

Have you ever Googled Yourself?

The name of the search engine Google™ is one of the few brands in the world that has worked its way into the Eng­lish lan­guage as a com­mon usage term.
What I’m talk­ing about is the verb “to google” which means to search for inform­a­tion using a search engine, not neces­sar­ily Google: and as such is […]