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Author Archives: Alistair
Google Help Milestone, 1000 Answers
A couple of months ago I decided to put my search engine knowledge to the test and started answering questions in the Google Webmasters Help forum. In that time, I’ve now answered 1000 different questions from people of all different … Continue reading
Google Profiles Become More Prominent
Back in 2007, Google released the first incarnation of the Google Profile. Back then the functionality was quite limited but it served a clear purpose – Google were looking to consolidate down all of the profile data that users had … Continue reading
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Google Buzz
Google Buzz is a social media product from Google that, as the sticker says, goes beyond status updates and allows you to share updates, photos, videos and more. It is quite an amazing tool, you can share publicly or privately … Continue reading
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YouTube Parasites Leeching Off Ted Williams
In the last few days, a homeless man in Ohio named Ted Williams has become a viral internet sensation because he has a golden radio voice. Ted, a panhandler was standing at an intersection when someone took a short video … Continue reading
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YouTube Internal Server Error Message
For the first time that I can remember, I received a completely unhandled exception on YouTube and the error message made me laugh: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched … Continue reading
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Google Reader Widescreen Resolution Usability Enhancement
Google Reader is a fantastic web based RSS reader and I use it to read a lot of my favourite sites and also as a way to keep abreast what is happening within an industry, such as travel and hospitality. … Continue reading
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How To Make Me Unsubscribe From Your Email List
I’m subscribed to dozens and dozens of email subscription lists around the world, ranging in topics as far apart as high end sports cars to online marketing and everything in between. It has been said countless times before that anyone … Continue reading
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Cool URIs Don’t Change Apparently
The organisation behind a number of the standards that web development relies on in the present were forged through the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. Over the years they’ve published countless documents on their web site outlining in great … Continue reading
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Search Engine Land Editorial Quality Dropping
In the last week or so there have been a number of publishing errors on Search Engine Land, which I consider to be major mistakes that should have been caught by the authors, writers, editors and good quality work flow. … Continue reading
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Windows Live Hotmail Spam Filter Lacking
When web based email services like Hotmail where still quite a new service, the barrage of spam that they received was a source of constant complaint for their users. As the internet and their spam filtering techniques have evolved, I … Continue reading →