More examples of sites that appear in google news with headlines like ‘Newsticker requires javascript’ and ‘Font size A A A’
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Maybe Google really does need to get together with Twitter to improve its real-time search. Taking 15 days to recognise the Telegraph as the best current result for MPs expenses is a bit poor.
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A review of the usability of taps – avoiding arrest for getting my camera out in public toilets and showers – in order to see what lessons the design of everyday objects can tell us about web design.
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Wolfram Alpha – the new search engine that gives access to systematic knowledge (ie it’s a big database of curated facts) – has been variously hailed as a google and wikipedia killer. I’ve found the Wolfram|Alpha killer – the UK Ask A Librarian site.
Read the full post ...We need a centralised database of reporting restrictions in general terms (ie not all the detail so it’s like an issue of popbitch). Just what is the point of reporting restrictions if no one knows they exist?
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The Telegraph has now dropped to result number 8 in Google for a search on MPs expenses.
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The results from Google if you search for MPs expenses are rubbish. Last week they had pages from the BBC first and the Telegraph 2nd – even though the Telegraph is the primary source of all this material. Today the results are even worse: they’re absolute garbage.
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Google ran an interesting experiment – attempting to predict the results of the 2009 Eurovision contest based on search popularity. But while it got the winner right, the rest of its predictions were a bit poor.
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Google has redesigned Webmaster Tools. Some of it’s good. Some of it I hate. This is what I hate about the design (on top of that fact it’s much slower than the old version).
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Twitter is now using proper meta descriptions – the full tweet for tweets, and the bio for profile pages.
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The London Evening Standard website relaunched today. It has TWO home pages. Is this a good idea?
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Ofcom probably thought it was a great idea to get Stephen Fry to one of its Digital Britain panel discussions. Sadly for them, he launched a scathing assault on the whole strategy, saying he was ‘literally baffled’ by it and he thought the whole thing pointless. Here’s the transcript of what he said.
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Ofcom and the Digital Britain Forum haven’t learned the lessons from the Telegraph’s problems with publishing unmoderated Twitter feeds.
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Telegraph.co.uk gets an astonishing 8% of its visitors from social sites like Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon, Julian Sambles, Head of Audience Development, has revealed to me. The figure’s much higher than anyone previously thought.
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Understanding the differences between sole trading, limited companies, self employment can often be confusing – but Business Link has made a right mess of it with a case study that, in attempting to explain how easy it is to set up in business, has actually broken the law … by pretending to have set up as a limited company when it isn’t.
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With a 140-character limit, avoiding unnecessary apostrophes could make the difference between your tweet fitting … and not (this is no excuse not to include an apostrophe when you should).
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This is the personal blog of Malcolm Coles.
It's mostly about reviews (good and bad), SEO, Wordpress, newspapers, how to do things and the internet in general.
