Magazine chief: iPad users – prepare to be retrained
The Guardian has an interview with Future Chief Executive Stevie Spring. Future is a major magazine publisher based in the UK. I was interested to hear how she believes the iPad could change the...
View ArticleGoogle flexes page rank muscles, hits Daily Express?
It’s been reported that the Daily Express newspaper is selling paid links, in other words links that look to Google’s web crawler like links from independent editorial, but in fact are paid for by...
View ArticleGoogle favours big brands over diversity
Google has made a change to its search algorithm that means most of the results shown for a search may now come from a single domain. Previously, it would only show a couple of results from one domain,...
View ArticleFirst impressions of Google TV – get an Apple iPad instead?
I received a Google TV as an attendee at the Adobe MAX conference earlier this year; to be exact, a Logitech Revue. It is not yet available or customised for the UK, but with its universal power supply...
View ArticleThe power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange. I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for...
View ArticleWikipedia goes dark for a day to protest against proposed US legislation
All Wikipedia English requests today redirect to a page protesting against proposed US legislation, specifically the draft SOPA and PIPA legislation. Other sites will also be protesting, including...
View ArticleWebKit dominance threatens mobile web standards – but who will care?
Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the W3C CSS working group, has written a strongly-worded post describing how the “over-dominance” of the WebKit rendering engine threatens web standards. Everyone loves...
View ArticleGoogle’s Eric Schmidt looks forward to an Android in every pocket
Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt addressed the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in confident mood, boasting of the strong growth in Android adoption and saying that the world would need to...
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Let’s Encrypt: a quiet revolution
Any website that supports SSL (an HTTPS connection) requires a digital certificate. Until relatively recently, obtaining a certificate meant one of two things. You could either generate your own,...
View ArticleGoogle’s search monopoly, the decline of organic search and its implications
A piece by Rand Fishkin tells me what I already knew: that Google has a de facto monopoly in search, and that organic search (meaning clicking on a result from a search engine that is not an ad) is in...
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