Google
Google, Privacy, and You
On giant robots and dirty laundry
Google was recently touted as 'worst on privacy' out of a sample of online organisations, according to a study by Privacy International. Whether you agree with the verdict or not, there's no doubting that Google is in a powerful position as far as sensitive user information is concerned. [read more...]
New Google Analytics Rocks the Proverbial Socks
Statisticians rejoice!
Talk about a quiet rollout – the Google Analytics team must have been working a lot of late nights recently, as this evening they’ve released a completely overhauled interface for their analytics. Quite the surprise! (In fact, as I write this the announcement has just popped up on Bloglines) [read more...]
Why Good Hosting is Important
Or, how a dedicated host cured all my Google woes
Google knows an awful lot about the web, and one of the things the Googlebot tracks is the response time of your pages. If you know where to look, Google will also gladly divulge their data on your site via the Webmaster console, hidden away in the ‘Crawl stats’ section of the diagnostic tab. [read more...]
Google Indyrank Theories
More to page ranking than meets the eye?
Google watchers everywhere were given a glance under the hood, as a blogger revealed a rarely-seen error message. Most of the output was as you’d expect, with debug status information and various parameters – but one thing mentioned was the mysterious ‘Indyrank’. What could this new and previously unmentioned ranking variable refer to? [read more...]
Where is Google going?
Hell in a handbasket or Office killer?
With the recent release of Google Spreadsheets, and the acquisition of Writely, the AJAX- based word processor, it would seem that Google is preparing to assemble a suite of applications and tools to rival that most ubiquitous area of software - the office suite. But will the millions of Microsoft Office users switch over so easily? [read more...]
