This won't make any sense unless you first look at this rather good and amusing piece on Paul Staines' blog, about the predictive suggestions Google gives you when you type "Gordon Brown is". Then go to google.co.uk, and type in "Paul Staines", and see what predictive text Google suggests. FIRST PLACE GOOGLE SUGGESTION IS "PAUL STAINES BNP". As Paul says so wisely "GOOGLE KNOWS". Those g...

I posted Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads' first Billy the Brit video a few days ago. And then both of our pieces landed in the top five Google search results for the term "Billy Brit". Good. Equally good, Tim's site seems to optimise well for google.com, while the Wardman Wire did relatively better in google.co.uk. That is a useful variation. Here is Tim's second video, which I haven�...

The welfare state depends on a strongly progressive tax system. It seems to me that Globalisation effectively caps the degree to which a tax system can be redistributive even if we wanted it to be. That Google UK can be established in Ireland tells us something. Their lower corporation tax saves them 100 million a year and so their shareholders are entitled to expect them to act like that. There i...

Image by tuexperto_com5, licensed under Creative Commons Google rules the virtual world but if it ruled the real one, would things be a bit different? Google.org which is the philanthropic arm of Google blogged that it wants to see America weaned off fossil fuels by 2030 for its electricity. Also, Google's own energy efficiency initiatives will be equivalent to shutting down 10-20 coal-fired ...

Ahead of next week’s live spiked debate, Andrew Orlowski looks at how Google is securing profits and overriding copyright law.

Why oh why are we losing business to the Irish? The simple answer is - corporation tax. Surely it does not take a financial genius like Gordon Brown (joke) to work out that if companies say they are moving from the UK to Ireland because of "concerns over the [UK] tax environment" that we must follow the Irish lead and cut our corporation tax. Corporation tax in Ireland currently stands at 12.5% - ...

Charter and Henderson to move their headquarters to Ireland in a dramatic sign of the rising pressure on the Treasury to keep its tax system competitive

The Google search page has been redesigned in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II today, marking our head of state's visit to Google's UK offices:

Published works from the US, UK, Australia and Canada only will be included in Google's digital book search project, Google and book industry representatives agreed on Friday (13 November).

1) Write about Google at a well known media outlet. 2) Write something about Google at a well known media site that Google would like to finesse. 3) Profit!