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Companies complain to EU about their poor Google rankings

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…)

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Filed under: Google,Microsoft — Written by Carl posted on July 12, 2010 at 7:00 am

Annoying Flash ads in Hotmail

As an SEO company, we pretty much despise Flash in all of its forms. Its inaccessibility for search engines is matched only by its capacity to annoy people when used as an advertising medium.

Recently, I spent a few house using a Hotmail inbox. Don’t ask, it was necessary. Anyway, while I was using this inbox to deal with a seemingly endless stream of emails I was presented with an advert on the right hand side of the screen. This ad showed a police officer running, and looked to be a static image ad.

Oh no, upon rolling over this ad (by mistake) it opened up, covering the screen with its full motion video of a policeman running through the streets. While I was using Hotmail for a few hours, this ad must have opened up over a dozen times as I accidentally touched it (more…)

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Filed under: Microsoft — Written by Matt posted on June 29, 2010 at 10:12 am

Bing and iPhones

Ever since the release of Microsoft’s updated Bing search engine, rumours have been rife in the SEO industry. At first, there was wild and even hopeful speculation that Bing would push Google from its place at the top of the search ladder – most of this came from Microsoft however. When it became apparent that this was not going to happen, or at least not happen as fast as some of the more outlandish commentators had predicted, rumour moved on to other areas of the net for Bing to conquer.

Now, rumour has settled onto speculation over Bing’s place in the smartphone industry. Talks have been on for a while between Microsoft and Apple about pushing Bing on the iPhone. If this change did occur, it would mean big things for Bing, and even (more…)

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Filed under: Microsoft,Mobile Search — Written by Matt posted on June 19, 2010 at 7:46 am

Google goes bump in the night

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…)

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Filed under: Google,Microsoft — Written by Matt posted on May 6, 2010 at 8:30 am

Murdoch continues to miss the point over Google

News Corp supremo Rupert Murdoch has pledged to continue his campaign to stop Google ‘stealing’ his content for its Google News platform in a recent interview with Marvin Kalb.

Murdoch claims that while Google is simply stealing content from newspaper websites, Apple’s new iPad could be the saviour of newspapers by allowing people to read the news without buying a printed paper. Murdoch wants to charge for the online content of his newspaper websites and believes that Google makes this impossible as it steals his content for free use.

Murdoch obviously doesn’t understand the level of traffic that his websites, and indeed every other website on the Internet, receives from Google.

Murdoch commented:

We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing… there is a law of (more…)

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Filed under: Content,Google,Microsoft,News,SEO Mistakes — Written by Carl posted on April 7, 2010 at 9:13 am

Should you be worried about Bing?

Bing hit the search industry with a splash in 2009 and excitement is still surprisingly high. Although it’s still a little too early to see whether the new search engine’s claims of giving Google something to worry about are on the mark, things don’t look too optimistic. You would have thought that something would have happened over the last few months. So, should you worry about Bing?

Some SEO experts certainly seem to think Bing is still a contender. Commentaries in the industry still speculate about changes when Bing gains a proper foothold. It’s surprising for a new search engine contender to be stirring so much interest several months down the track when it hasn’t actually achieved that much. Microsoft’s former search engine was firmly in third place behind Google and Yahoo! for many (more…)

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Filed under: Microsoft — Written by Cheryl posted on April 1, 2010 at 10:41 am

Which tube is it for Euston Station?

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…)

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Filed under: Google,Microsoft — Written by Carl posted on March 11, 2010 at 11:04 am

Bing turns to TV advertising to boost userbase

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…)

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Filed under: Google,Microsoft — Written by Carl posted on March 9, 2010 at 10:06 am
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