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Google Rumours - could it be an RSS submission service?

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Google are drip-feeding us another way for site owners to get their content into Google, designed to complement site crawl and Google Sitemaps. My guess is an RSS submission service. Google are tinkering more and more with RSS - yesterday I saw syndicated news showing up on the right hand side of my Gmail account […]

Google’s Reader

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

In a further affirmation of how much interest the corporate world is paying to the subject of blogging, Google have launched Google Reader. It works much like My Yahoo! or Newsgator etc. It’s very easy to use and after having set it up I’m seriously considering moving completely over to it rather than filling my […]

SEO through the ages

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Jim Boykin over at Jim’s Blog has a really good post on how SEO has changed over the years. In reality it exposes just how naive search engines were only a few years ago, and how algorithms have changed to work towards higher quality search results that are harder to manipulate with dodgy techniques. It […]

BBC want to build a search engine to rival Google

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Talks are going on between the government and the BBC to determine just how much extra they can charge us for a TV license over the next few years. It’s all pretty standard stuff, improving digital services, more new programming etc. Standard until you find out that one of their plans is to build a […]