If your website doesn’t rank well within Google, you should probably seek the services of an SEO company. If you’re already receiving SEO services, or have an SEO consultant or in-house team on the case and you’re still not getting results, perhaps it’s time to change your search engine optimisation company?

Alternatively, you could take a leaf out of the book of three companies in particular, and complain to the EU that your website isn’t ranking in Google. If only every business did that about their website!

Incredibly, one of the companies complaining to the EU about their poor Google rankings is Microsoft. Microsoft isn’t happy about the Google rankings for its product reviews website Ciao.co.uk and, rather than conduct some SEO on the site, or evaluate the website’s current SEO, they’ve gone straight to the top and are crying foul about Google’s ranking algorithm to the EU.

The other two companies who are also crying foul are a French legal site, ejustice.fr, and a UK search engine called Foundem – no, we’ve never heard of them either and their website seems to feature (more…)

Google just loves to buy up new technologies, especially when it’s working on similar technologies of its own and it wants a bit of a kick start. Google’s purchase of YouTube for example was sparked by the fact that YouTube was beating Google Video for users – if you can’t beat them, buy them!

Now Google has seen an opportunity to wade in on what has been predicted to be the next new craze among gadget fanatics, tablets. Apple has the iPad, Microsoft has its own version and Google is apparently working on a little something too, if their purchase of Canadian company Bump is to tell us anything

Bump, owned by entrepreneur Anand Agarawala, has just invented the BumpTop – a unique way of ordering your files on a computer system. The BumpTop allows you to create a virtual desk and order your files as you would on your own real desk (in my case, one large pile should do it). However, the BumpTop has been critisised as being too fiddly for a mobile device, because of the (more…)

Microsoft this week launched a series of adverts in the UK to promote its Bing search engine, with the slogan ‘Bing and decide’. The adverts claim that we, as a people, are suffering from information overload by using other, more successful, search engines and we can’t find a simple answer to a simple question.

One of the adverts showed a woman in a train station asking a man which tube she should take for Euston Station, where the man promptly offered every piece of information relating to Euston Station… save for what she asked.

The idea of the advert is that if you use Bing, instead of say, Google, you’ll cut out all of the useless information and get straight to the nub of the matter.

But will you?

We asked Google and Bing exactly that question, which tube is it for Euston Station? (more…)

Less than one month since Google’s decision to advertise during the US Super Bowl was branded by Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand as a desperate move following the pressure piled on by Bing, Bing is turning to TV advertising to boost its low user figures.

The TV campaign is to be shown the UK and is funded by Microsoft, hoping to lure users away from Google. The campaign will run for three months, and will cost millions to the software giant.

The campaign launches tomorrow across every terrestrial channel in the UK, and some satellite channels too, including Sky One.

The tagline Microsoft has chosen to promote its search engine with is ‘Bing and Decide’ – which presumably a lot of people have done already, which is why Microsoft has chosen to (more…)