SEO BLOG

Just read in the San Francisco Chronicle that, after many false starts, Microsoft and Yahoo have finally struck a deal to pool their expertise on search. Taking on Google was never going to be easy, but the combined power of the second and third largest forces on the search market might actually stand a chance. [...]

In an article on the Guardian website, Mark Sweney tells how a case brought against Google by Metropolitan International Schools for defamation has been ruled in favour of Google. In a judgment in the high court on Friday, Mr Justice Eady ruled that Google was  not the publisher of the content, merely a “facilitator”. Good [...]

When news that singer Michael Jackson had died hit the web, Google thought they were under attack with the number of related queries. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8120324.stm

Bigmouthmedia – traditionally the holders of the number one spot at Google for search engine optimisation,  seem to be on the missing list this morning – with TBPR0. For years now Bigmouthmedia have held the competition at bay and have made their reputation as king of the heap in the field of search engine optimisation [...]

UK based Wolfram Research are attempting the holy grail of search – the ability of an Internet search engine to understand questions in natural language and deliver relevant answers. Most associated with Ask, this technology has long been the dream of the information retrieval scientist. Whether or not it can be done remains to be [...]

The Telegraph website is currently a running a story about the British nuclear base at Faslane being clearly visible on Google Earth. Apparently a software update has caused the previously blurred image of this high-security facility in Scotland to once again become clearly visible. The authorities are worried this would make it easier for terrorist [...]