Google Fast Flip

September 15th, 2009 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Google

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Excerpt: Google labs have created another project which looks to be very useful. Google Fast Flip is a news reader that presents recent articles from well respected or well read news sources. Most striking thing about it is that the articles are presented on the same page allowing you to scan them very quickly. Clicking on one of the brings takes you to that story. You can also search for the latest stories about a partiular topic and this will return stories that are particularly topical. How useful it becomes depends on the quality of the content from sites that are allowed…

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Bing Becomes a Verb

August 11th, 2009 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Advertising

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Excerpt: Just when it looked like Bing was going to take off, they have got the marketing so wrong. While people speak of Googling for something, it is far to soon for people to speak in a meaningful way about Binging. The truth is that most people still don’t realise that there is a Google alternative. To try an promote the site, a viral video has been launched with the intention of being so bad that it is good. But, as with so much corporate advertising that tries to be with it and cool, it falls flat on its face. The video…

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Supressing White space in Cold Fusion Source Code

August 5th, 2009 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in SEO tips

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Excerpt: One of the annoying things about ColdFusion is when the code has been executed the source code is full of white-space where ColdFusion has been removed. In the most extreme circumstances, this can lead to a much longer source code, which from an SEO point of view is to be avoided. In the settings of the ColdFusion administrator panel. Click enable white space suppression. It is not going to have a massive effect on your SEO but at least it means that you don’t have to scroll as far, makes the code more readable and it could save you some small…

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Choosing your Keywords

July 21st, 2009 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Basic SEO

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Excerpt: Choose your key phrases correctly and the rest of your SEO will follow. If you choose keywords that are too competitive it will take a long time to and maybe you will never achieve the results that you were hoping. Keywords that are not competitive don’t receive many searches. Tools such as WordTracker and Google’s Keyword Tool can help you gauge which keywords you want to optimise for. For example suppose you have to optimise for Fire Sprinker Systems, you might choose a broad range of keywords ranging from the generic to the specific. Sprinkler Systems – could be confused with garden…

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Google Chrome Operating System

July 9th, 2009 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Google

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Excerpt: Following the success of the Google Chrome browser,  yesterday Google announced that are developing their own operating system called Google Chrome to take advantage of their application that are already being used on the web. The new operating system is intended to be small and fast loading which would be an obvious advantage on Netbooks which are primarily used for working online. This OS  will be Open Source and so will be free to use.  It will run on x86 and ARM processors. It will also have a simple architecture, the operating system will run in a new windowing  system on…

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