Category: Search

Google Shopping
Search

Google does bad by doing good

Google is proposing a new system for ranking online merchants and stores. But will the new system favour Google’s own shopping network?

Addiction
Internet Psychology

Can you be addicted to SEO?

Is it possible to suffer from SEO addiction? Can you actually be too focused on search engine optimisation?

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Internet Psychology

People know more than Google

Most of the Internet is actually hidden from Google and does not appear in their results. People can find it though.

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Search

Is Google rubbish or are we just lazy?

Google search results provide inaccurate and false information, according to one study. But we accept what Google provides. Are we lazy?

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Internet Psychology

You are better at search than Google

Human beings are much better at search than Google. This means that people can instantly see what they want to find on your web pages.

February 2012
Search

How to leap ahead of the competition on Google

So, you have an extra day today because it is 29th February – a Leap Year. Brilliant. It means you can crack on with some work you wouldn’t otherwise have time for…! But what should you do? How can you maximise the value of these extra 24 hours? The answer

Search Engine Marketing
Search

Search engines are less valuable than we think

Every second of every minute of every hour of every day there are 23,148 searches on Google; that’s a whole lot of searching…! Search is one of the most popular online activities, making Google the “number one” website in terms of traffic, brand recognition and financial success. Whatever you spend

Search Engines
Search

Google changes signal the end of objective search

Google is changing – and for the worse. The company is focused on the ever burgeoning world of social. Currently it is exploiting its fifth attempt at a social networking system, Google Plus. Previous Google social networks, like Buzz and Wave have bit the dust. The company has high hopes for Plus – so much so that it has now started to use data from the social network to influence the search results it presents to you.