Google Launches Small Business Blog

Google doesn’t do anything without good reason and so I was very interested when they launched their latest blog.

This one is aimed at Small Businesses which seems an interesting move.

There reason I find this interesting is that Google has been criticised for

How Fast is your Site?

If there is one thing about your site that is bound to put your potential customers off it is a slow site.

Industry standards suggest that most of us take less than 8 seconds to decide if we are going to stay on a new website or hit the back button and try a different link.

Those [...]

Google – KEEP OUT!

Sometimes there are pages that you really do NOT want Google to index.

You might have some pages “hidden” on your site with data you would rather not share with the world.

The last thing in the world that you want is for Google to find them and

Free links From Google

How would you like a bunch of free links courtesy of Google?

You would?

Read on!

Really Useful Google Search

Tired of searching Google for information on a product only to find all the top sites that Google lists are sites like Kelkoo, Dooyou, PriceGrabber and many more.

It seems you have to go through the first pages of links to find nothing more than directory sites that actually tell you nothing about the product.

It all [...]

Checking Google Supplemental

Remember when you could check if you were in Google supplemental results?

Remember the great cries when they stopped telling us which pages were in supplemental and which were in the one true index?

Well, guess what. It appears you can still find out which index your pages are in. Hooray!

Google sued over Mental Suffering

I thought I’d heard it all, but now I read that Google is being sued for causing mental suffering.

This all stems from Google’s latest offering called Street View.

Google says Firefox users are the best!

Google along with the Swiss Institute of Technology and IBM recently conducted a study that discovered that amazingly nearly half of the total online population is at risk because their browsers are simply not secure. However Firefox users topped the poll of the safest.

YouTube user abuses the rules Big Time

If you have ever uploaded a video to YouTube you will know there very clear rules on posting videos. For those that don’t here they are:

You can no longer upload videos longer than ten minutes regardless of what type of account you have. Users who had previously been allowed to upload longer content still retain [...]

Google continue to dominate as Yahoo caves in

Finally we have a result in the “who will buy Yahoo” debate.

Although it’s not actually a buy out, the deal signed between Yahoo and Google last night has effectively pushed out any buy out possibility by Microsoft. In fact some hours before the Google deal was announced, both Yahoo and Microsoft had stated that talks [...]