If you enter the question ‘is the BNP racist‘ into the Google search engine, and click the ‘I feel lucky’ button…

My new search engine optimisation seminar Google 4 Grown-Ups was very well received on its first outing, and I'm looking to do another one in partnership with Thoughtbubble very shortly. Click here to find out when the next Google 4...

What is Search Engine Optimisation? It’s the writing of a headline so that Google will pick it up. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is a marketing technique for making a web page appear more frequently above others in a list of results from a search engine. Usually followed by a sub-head which repeats the terms

Google dominates the search engine market, both in the UK and internationally. Although there are some countries where a local search service has the lead (e.g. Russia), overall Google is undoubtedly number one. The world however is full of companies which used to be massive, even dominant, but fell from grace. Remember the days when Novell

I was reading about Cuil, a new search engine set up by former Google employees which has been launched with the intention of competing with the search giant.Sadly though, from my ysing of it this morning, it is a very poor search engine indeed.I typed in "Norfolk Politics", and got the response below. Not impressive. I typed in Norfolk Blogger, and most of the links it gave me came up with the me...

Web giant Google has a new rival this week, as the search engine Cuil was launched on Sunday night. The new service searches 120 billion web pages – 3 times as many as Google – and its central idea is to track down the most relevant content, rather than the most popular. A good thing, surely? But after a couple of days using Cuil, I'm not yet sold on it. Its deep-search methods actuall...

The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's search engine and its search-advertising service

The $44.6 billion bid, which dates back to February 2008, would merge Yahoo!, the second biggest search engine after Google, with Microsoft's Bing search engine, which has been slow to gain a foothold in the market. Google's leading market share in Europe allegedly tipped the decision in Microsoft's favour and the merger could create a rival big enough to crush the search engine's ...

So. DuckDuckGo. A hybrid search engine. This one though, doesn’t collect personal data. Which many people would say is A Good Thing. What DuckDuckGo also does is prevent what they call ‘search leakage‘… At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that

Google Audio Indexing is a beta test search engine from Google that aims to enable users to quickly find and access audio materials available via the Youtube political channels. It uses speech technology to search for spoken words inside videos and then jumps to the section of the the video where the words are spoken. It was launched during the 2008 American presidential elections. Although it is ...