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In the space of a few days two great features caught my eye, as they will make the lives of webmasters so much easier.
Long awaited Site Verification Sharing
I couldn’t be happier to hear that Google added a long waited feature to their Webmaster Tools Site Verification process. Previously if more than one person needed to [...]

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 [...]

Over the weekend, a new landing page was put live for the Labour party’s website. It’s a slick, flash-based page that reflects the new “Future Fair for All” theme touted by the Labour party at the moment.

It is refreshing to see a traditionally stodgy website being dynamic and reflecting policy changes and campaigns in almost [...]

And when I say dominates… I do mean dominates.
Data from a survey by GMSA has revealed that Facebook accounts for nearly half of all the time people in the UK spend online using their phones.
Mobile phone users in the UK spent around 2.2 billion minutes browsing the social network – in December 2009 alone.
The closest [...]

For years web designers have had to deal with compatibility issues across multiple browsers and for just as many years have had to accept content being displayed in slightly different ways. This is unlikely to change soon but the differences are becoming fewer and fewer. To make the most of this you need to choose [...]

Ever since Google began to include real-time results in the SERPs, from sites like Twitter and other blogs, speculation has been rife as to how they prioritise which tweets appear and which don’t. Whilst a search on a popular ‘hot topic’ can often reveal what seems like a fast stream of tweets, a corresponding search [...]

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 [...]

I may not spend my days lounging on a sandy white beach, while dolphins frolic and a cool breeze ruffles my hair, but I do have a job in one of the most interesting, fast developing and innovative industries in the world.
And 2010 is, I’m certain, going to prove to be one of the most [...]

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 [...]

Another year has come and gone, and I was curious to see what the top searches of the past year could reveal about 2009. Each year, Google, Yahoo and Bing examine the millions of queries that people around the world have typed into their search engines and compile a list of the most popular searches [...]