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.

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).

Some news sites get a last updated time stamp in Google - and some don't. It's a bit of information next to the URL that says XX minutes ago. Not all news sites get it - although I can't see any rhyme or reason.

Someone at Twitter needs to read Google's guidelines to improve how the search engine shows individual tweets.
But even if Twitter itself doesn't care how it looks, clever people like Barack Obama and Russell Brand have worked out how to get individual descriptions in Twitter. I'll explain how ...

Google is showing triple inline sitelinks in some cases, not just dual or single.

ITV.com is breaching a court order forbidding the publication of the DNA test results for alleged 13-year-old dad Alfie Patten.

The case of the leaked DNA test on 13-year-old alleged dad Alfie Patten has revealed a big problem with court-ordered reporting restrictions in the internet age: there is nothing to stop websites repeating the information unless they know about the court order banning this. And under the terms of the order itself, there's no way to find out about the order.

Alot news toolbar adverts are very out of date. Jade Goody has died, Angeline gave birth long ago, and the newest efit for Madeleine McCann was last summer.

For a body in charge of standards, the ABCe's website is a disgrace and an embarrassment.

Easy ways to fine tune your blog. Do them today and make a BIG difference!

Arsenal no longer ranks first for search term 'Arsenal' in Google.

Can you use rel=canonical to fix duplicate content problems in wordpress caused by paged comments / comment pagination?

How newspaper sites' sitelinks appear in google - and what that tells you about their reporting bias and site strucutre

Why does a youtube result for one of my videos say [Translated] in square brackets in the google results, when the title was in English to start with?

A list of authority sites that don't link fairly.