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Buzz buzz – Google profile nonsense

By tim, on February 10th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has launched a new social media service called Buzz (as if you did not know) and I’m on it – here’s my profile.

You had better follow that link too; because whenever I visit the profile when signed into Google I see this not-too-subtle banner:

“Your profile is not yet eligible

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Fear of Google

By tim, on December 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Shares in Rightmove, a UK web site for house sales, have dropped by move then 10% over the last couple of days, following a report by the Financial Times that “Google is in talks with British estate agents to launch an online property portal.”

I do not know what chances of success this venture

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Microsoft – Yahoo search deal: 2+2 makes 5, or 3?

By tim, on July 29th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s search deal with Yahoo makes more sense than the attempted full acquisition last year. The 10-year deal provides for Microsoft’s Bing to become the back-end search engine for Yahoo, while Yahoo becomes the exclusive sales force for premium search advertisers on both Bing and Yahoo.

Listening to today’s conference call, the rationale for

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Search for virus help highlights lack of authority in Google, Wikipedia

By tim, on June 24th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

A contact suffered a trojan infection on his Windows XP machine the other day. He was alerted to the infection by Windows Defender, but the Remove or Quarantine actions offered by Defender did not work. If he removed the trojan, it reappeared on the next reboot. The installed AVG security suite sat there unconcerned.

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Bing’s disappearing search share gain in the US

By tim, on June 10th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Web stats site StatCounter caused some excitement last week when it announced that Bing had overtaken Yahoo in search market share, as tracked by its site analysis tools.

I took a look at the figures today, and they make depressing reading for Microsoft:

I’ve annotated the image to show Live Search

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Bing, Blind Search and electoral fraud

By tim, on June 8th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It’s election fever in the UK: in dramatic results, the incumbent party is being pummelled at the polls. So too for search engines? Microsoft employee Michael Kordahi set up a blind search test. Perform a search, select your favourite from three columns of results. It started well for Bing, but market leader Google soon

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A few good things about Bing – but where is the webmaster’s guide?

By tim, on May 28th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

So Bing (Bing Is Not Google?) is Microsoft’s new search brand. A few good things about it:

1. Short memorable name, short memorable url

2. Judging by the official video at http://www.decisionengine.com/ Microsoft realises that it has to do something different than Google; doing the same thing almost as well or even just a

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Yahoo’s mindshare problem

By tim, on May 14th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Last weekend I attended Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in London.

It was excellent. I wasn’t hacking myself; but enjoyed the tech talks. I also had an opportunity to interview execs including co-founder David Filo, Cody Simms who does Product Management for Yahoo Open Strategy, and Sophie Major the head of the International Developer Network.

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Bytemark failure illustrates value of Twitter

By tim, on May 10th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

This site is hosted at Bytemark, which has a good track record for performance and service. On Sunday afternoon Bytemark and all its virtual servers became inaccessible. Seeking reassurance that this was a temporary problem and being worked on, I tried to get more information. This is a relatively small ISP and there is

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Experts Exchange: a great way to make money on the Web

By tim, on March 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

For Experts Exchange that is, not for you. Experts Exchange is a question and answer site which most people who use Google have come across, because it often features high in the rankings when you search for troubleshooting information about some strange Windows error or the like. This can be frustrating, because the solutions

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