Compare Credit Cards with Google
Search on Google for credit card and you will see that Google have launched their own comparison tool, not dissimilar to the one for secured loans a few months ago.
When you click through from the ad you get into a table of results, see below.
Looks like it is for UK only [...]
Google may end operations in China
After a major attack on Google gmail accounts (among those were Chinese activists) last December, Google looks like it may be about to pull out of China. While not directly accusing the Chinese Government of the attacks Google said they were no longer prepared to censor their Chinese results [...]
Party leaders failing to fully protect their online reputations
Our new political research shows that Britains party leaders are failing to protect their online repuations. Over the last two months Tamar tracked the reputation management of leading political figures to determine how successful they are at positioning themselves positively online.
And the findings make interesting reading as [...]
Google Live Search
Like London buses Google announcements are coming thick and fast these days following a realtively quiet development period. Obviously lots has been going on behind the scenes. At the end of last week we saw the quiet launch of personalised search and yesterday saw the loudly heralded announcement of real time search by [...]
What personalised search means for your site
On Friday Google announced that it was rolling out personlised search for all users. This is a big change as previously personalised search was only run if you were logged in. Now Google will offer slightly adjusted results based on your previous 180 days history.
For exmple if you search [...]
Five clicks and you are out
In what may be the first or last round of the ‘free news wars’ Google has announced that they are updating their ‘First Click Free’ programme so that after five views of a given website each day users may be presented with a registration page in order to view more [...]
The news is the news as Bing throws down the gauntlet
So Microsoft are looking to pay News Corp, and others, to appear in their results and not in Google. Please don’t tell me this is going to be a ‘how big are my pockets’ job?
And while I don’t mind someone paying ‘for’ placement, paying someone [...]
Google Caffeine live, but not fully until January
Matt Cutts has posted that the Google Caffeine is not expected to go fully live until January 2010. In a bid to stem concern from retailers that a big shake up (which was not really likely anyway) he has said that caffeine results will be made available on [...]
Google Caffeine on a datacenter near you – soon
You may remember that back in August we announced that Google was updating their infrastructure and the process was called caffeine.
On the back of that they launched a test ’site’ where you could search and see what impact this had on the search results. And if they [...]
Seems we have some Page Rank update action
Could this be the last one ever?
At least that we see.
Maybe.
