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Google’s Double Standards, Canonical URLs & SES London
I spent some time last week looking into the whole Google Japan penalty issue with Ben. I find this fascinating, for a number of different reasons.
- If Google don’t know the rules, how can they expect the general public to know them?
- Why is the penalty applied to Google.co.jp different to other penalties?
- How might this affect Google.co.jp?
Google are still being eerily quiet about it – I know Matt Cutts has been busy at SMX, but I still would’ve expected some formal announcement from the guys in the US. › Continue reading
Sleep, memory loss, and information addiction
So it’s Friday night. I’m just chilling before I head to a friend’s birthday and thought I’d write a few words. We had a few friends round for dinner on Wednesday, had a few bottles of wine, and were just having some random chatter, when I talked about some “behavioural issues” that I’m afflicted with. I’m not sure that “behavioural issues” is the right way to describe what I’m talking about, but I’m gonna use it for now. Anyway, some of the other guys in the room said they were afflicted with the same issues, and it got us all thinking that they’re somehow related. I’ll explain below: › Continue reading
Radiohead Grammy Award Video 2009
Radiohead are one of my most favourite bands ever, and this video of them performing “15 Step” at the 2009 Grammy Awards is awesome:
Hello World!
Hello everyone, how u all doing? Welcome to my new blog. For those that know me, and for those that don’t – here’s a brief update as to what, where, why, when and how I’m doing. So there’s been something on this domain for the last 5 years-ish. I started it as a testbed when I worked as a Search Engine Optimiser for Spannerworks. I was spending a lot of time trawling the interweb in search for links for my clients, and I started to notice that there was a lot of weird stuff out there that I wanted to share with people. › Continue reading
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- @spotify Upgraded to Premium last night, but having login issues this morning via the iPhone app - are there known problems atm?
- @GlastoWatch oh, didn't realise that
- @GlastoWatch woah - just read that post - has the price of the tickets gone up? Don't remember them costing £195 before
- @buffystar yep - was down earlier. back up now, but still a bit temperamental
- Holy sh*t - Facebook is down
- http://digg.com/videos - kinda surprised that URL still ranks in Google. Though it would've been dropped by now
- @timaldiss no worries - out of town anyways. Next time
- @timaldiss which hours would they be?whereabouts in london? I've got plans, but may be able to rearrange
- @ralphsparkle Exhibition space? http://yfrog.com/nd8j6j