How Google crawls and retrieves data from the web. Some common SEO issues that arise. From Googler’s mouth. Continue reading...

There are 91 PAGES of complaints and problems with the Mac Lion O/S trying to connect properly over VPN.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191630?start=0&tstart=0

The compaints have been going on for over six months now and I am reduced to using my daughter’s older OSX Mac to get into the office machines, to copy files onto a USB stick to see on my LION OS machine.

Apple – with 91… Continue reading...

Yahoo Site Explorer is going offline. Here is a list of the main Yahoo site explorer alternatives. There are a few to choose from with different strengths and weaknesses. Continue reading...

My agency, Receptional, has been involved in some interesting projects over the years. It seems that when other agencies or consultancies are asked a question that just cannot be answered without a bit of clever programming, they bow out of the race. We find ourselves building ad-hoc tools for clients which do not cost the earth, but produce interesting data designed exclusively to answer the question at hand… Continue reading...

Twitter has different quality signals to Google within its data. Could Twitter use this to build a better search engine? This article puts the case for Twitter and argues that Twitter might have the edge in creating a very different Index which Google could not easily replicate. Continue reading...