I recently posted quite a large article on my company blog regarding the various Internet pranks that went on this 1st of April 2010. Google April Fools’ Day Pranks Google went a bit heavy on the pranks this year, with each department seeming to produce its own set of pranks. Google Animal Translate - Google have [...]

Like my little joke there? I know, hilarious. Anyway – I’ve been talking quite a lot about Twitter recently and general social media. I’ve said this before of course, but social media truly is great for both driving direct traffic to your website and for general search engine optimisation. Of course, different services meet different needs. Take a [...]

Google is huge. Really huge. Let’s see what that does to the graph. Graph sourced from Arbor Networks blog entry. The main reason for Google’s huge increase in general Internet traffic was its acquisition of YouTube in 2007. YouTube delivers huge quantities of streaming video traffic, and the impressive growth of YouTube alone is enough [...]

Both Google and the BBC have recently released new beta web designs for their homepages. The BBC beta homepage is available for all to look at via http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ while the Google homepage has been released to a select number of Google users, as Google tend to stagger the release of their new designs and features. You [...]

I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent [...]

Like my pun? I know, I know. It is ingenius. What is Google Buzz? Google Buzz is a new social networking venture from the almighty search engine. It is designed to integrate well with their webmail service Gmail. Google have dipped their toes in the social networking marketplace before with services like Orkut and Google Friend Connect. [...]

Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software. Douglas Crockford selected the MIT license for his JSMin program to reduce JavaScript code syntax in such a way to make it [...]

Google have released a very simple explanatory video, aimed at new computer users, detailing their new operating system which is focused around the Google Chrome web browser. If you’ve ever needed to ask, what is the difference between Google Chrome OS and Google Chrome, this video explains the answer in the simplest manner possible. Google [...]

Twitter has signed deals with Microsoft and Google to put microblogging messages sent via the microblogging service (‘tweets’) into the Microsoft Bing and Google search engine indexes. This deal will mean tweets will appear from Twitter alongside normal Google and Bing search results. Without a doubt, this will make Twitter an even larger SEO tool [...]