Things I’ve give a bad review to …
Facebook claims that it “maintains a robust reporting infrastructure that leverages our hundreds of millions of users to look for offensive or potentially dangerous content.”
But I’ve discovered that this is rubbish. Its methods for reporting inappropriate content are confusing, flawed or missing.
Read the full post ...I can think of a way to save the Royal Mail some money – abolish their mad scheme for controlling who links to them – which involves being posted a paper licence to do so.
This is the saga of my trying to link to the Royal Mail site.
eHow says Acai Berries are wonderful – eat them. Although it also says they have no benefits.
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People are often complaining that they want to log into two Gmail accounts at once (the answer is to use two browsers, or Chrome in incognito mode). I seem to now be logged into two accounts at once – even though I don’t want to be – potentially exposing someone else’s details.
Read the full post ...An astonishing video from a hong kong news station where they use 3d avatars to show gordon brown attacking people and losing his temper …
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Ever done a search for Ann Widdecombe? No, me neither until today. There’s an interesting image shown, as you can see.
Read the full post ...The Guardian reports that the PCC has rejected all the complaints (more than 25,000) about Jan Moir’s article about Stephen Gately.
As it’s late, I shall limit myself to comparing the reported ruling with the original article …
Read the full post ...You may have seen the news that ReadWriteWeb posted a story about facebook’s login. It appeared at the top of google for a search on “facebook login”, leading to, allegedly, 000s of people turning up and trying to log in to facebook.
Here are the best of the 1,500-odd comments, to save you the trouble of ploughing through them. After the first page or so, most of the “I want to log in” comments appear to be jokes – leading to the suspicion that after the first few genuinely confused people, this massive thread is, in fact, between people pretending to be idiots, and people claiming they can’t believe people are such idiots.
Read the full post ...Exacting revenge on a company that secretly added links to clients’ sites by targeting their analytics data …
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So, just as Search Engine Land has issued some SEO advice for Bill Gates’s blog, I thought I’d help the Pope out with some SEO and copywriting tips.
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The only way is up. All roads lead to Rome. And just as you can only travel south from the north pole, apparently if you’re on the Circle Line, you can only travel east, regardless of which way you’re going.
As these pictures show, if you’re going from Victoria to Liverpool Street, you go in an easterly direction. Want to go the other way, from Liverpool Street to Victoria? Ah, then you’ll be needing to go in an, er, easterly direction.
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I pointed out this morning that the Express was talking utter rubbish claiming that the BBC was keeping up twitter accounts with 0 or 2 followers. The real numbers were in the 000s.
It appears the Express has confused following and follower numbers. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Read the full post ...Dear the Express. Please look at the right twitter a/cs when discussing the BBC’s followers. That is all.
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Not content with its various other spelling problems, Google is now trying to make us spell colour the US way.
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There have been various posts about how Google is returning results with the American spelling (search engine optimization) when people search for search engine optimisation.
But it’s got much bigger problems with spelling than just -ise vs ize.
Read the full post ...I wrote yesterday that I was sympathetic towards NewsNow and its ongoing row with newspapers, especially the Times. I’ve now decided that I’m not.
NewsNow crawls the Times site in order to gather information for its paid service to businesses.
Read the full post ...If buying a used car, I wonder what checks you should do on the documentation? Don’t bother asking Google.
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Tanya Gold has written some anti-iPhone drivel in the Guardian. I’m not going to link to it or its 17 questions. (Nothing to say? Why not ask lots of questions? Is that a good idea?)
But wait. What’s that in the advertising slots on the page? Oh, yes, an advert for the Guardian’s iPhone app.
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I needed to know how much it typically cost to replace the suspension on a car (not mine, fortunately). The results are another good example of why the UK search results are often rubbish.
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It’s the pre-budget report today. Business Link, the government’s advice service for businesses, is bidding on the term “pre budget report” in google’s adverts.
Maybe we could repair the budget deficit by wasting less money driving traffic to a site that doesn’t have any information on?
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