Category Archives: Search engines

Google’s censoring in China

Just a quick one – a good example of the level of censoring that has to be applied in China: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen Quite… sad.

AOL releases 6 months worth of search data

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy implications, however 2) it’s pretty valuable stuff for search engine marketing. Here’s some links, and [...]

Interview with Ammon Johns

Rand Fiskin, of SEOmoz, recently interviewed Ammon Johns, focusing mainly on Ammon’s new position as SEO Director at The Search Works. The interview goes over the basis of identifying SEO projects and the clients that want them, and is a small insight in to the way Ammon and his company works. I have the privilege [...]

15 year old pretends to be hired by Google

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled quite a few people, until he posted his apology on his blog. Certainly a quick [...]

Google planning to offer online storage

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility. Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)”. [...]