Welcome back once again folks. Hope everyone’s survived the work week and we can get the weekend underway. Anyway that’s enough of pleasantries, we’re all about the web here and there’s no place for niceties on the big old www. Or at least, that seems to be the way Google views it lately as I’m sure you’ll see.
At the moment Google seems to be going through legal battles faster than French generals go through terms of surrender. (I know, the French again). This week saw no chances to the trend as an ongoing legal issue rumbled onward for Google in regards to their indexing of a variety of copyrighted books. What really seems to have got the authors in a fit is Google’s small omission of actually asking their permission first. Funny that.
Elsewhere from the Google Empire, announcements from the SMX West conference in Santa Clara have been pouring forth. Firstly, a lot more Google searches are personalised than you might think, prompting the question; how might this effect SEO? More positively, Google is now capable of indexing AJAX properly which is a good thing for SEO. You’ve got to take the rough with the smooth I suppose.
If you happen to run or own a website then you’ve probably heard of Webmaster Tools. If you haven’t then you should get yourself informed as you’re missing out on a very useful ‘free’ tool. Not to mention the fact that it’s recently made some improvements as well as gaining a brand new feature. Google’s street view tool has also seen some advances as the new addition of user’s photos gives a more comprehensive view of those hard to reach areas.
Google aren’t having it all their way with upgrades as it appears the next upgrade to Google Trends isn’t coming from Google, but a rival application from Yahoo. Their Trending application TimeSense is touted to be a far better alternative, but this remains to be seen.
On a lighter note, officials in Topeka, Kansas have bizarrely changed the name of the town. Let’s just say it adds a whole new meaning to the term Google Home.
British tech geeks can start rubbing their sweaty hands together as the Nexus phone looks set to wash up on our shores as early as April, and with a multitude of features still being developed there’ll be plenty to start Tweeting about it. Just remember that Twitter’s become the latest phishing hole.
The rise of these sophisticated new phones seems to coincide with Google’s John Herlihy’s call that desktop computers will be dead in three years. I just hope that’s an assessment and not a declaration of war.
P.S. if you’re bored during work today and remember games before the polygon took over, why not take a look at Another World from the Chrome Experiments.
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