Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: Google

Google to host Web UI javascript libraries. Appcelerator too??

30 May 2008 – 4:36 pm

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How smart is Google Maps?

11 March 2008 – 10:22 am

My buddy Cyrus plotted a point in the middle of Port Philip Bay, and asked Google Maps to give directions from there to a location in St Kilda… Turns out Google Maps knows about the ferry!
Technorati Tags: google maps, google, melbourne, ferry, geolocation, geo ip

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The good old days of search

19 July 2007 – 12:26 pm

Remember the good old days, when the Search Engine Relationships chart was really interesting?!?!
Technorati Tags: search engines, google, yahoo, alltheweb, live search, lycos, hotbot, aol search, netscape, bruce clay

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Linking to Wikipedia is lazy and a disservice to someone else who really deserves the link!

13 July 2007 – 11:40 am

Imagine you’re Google for a moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job!
So you refine, refine, refine and refine some more a funky-as “algorithm” that [...]

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The firstfruits of Google’s Feedburner acquisition

9 July 2007 – 7:14 pm

Urchin was expensive. Then Google purchased it and made it free. Yay! Now Google has made Feedburner PRO free too. And that includes the elegant MyBrand feature, which I’ve just activated. Gotta love it Technorati Tags: feedburner, google, free stuff, acquisitions

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Google’s new BlogRank Authority Index… in my dreams, anyway!

31 May 2007 – 10:35 am

I’ve been meaning for weeks now to write a blog post about how obvious it is to me that Google should buy Feedburner. I mean it’s a total no-brainer.
Last week Google agreed with me.
One of the main reasons I wanted to see that union was to see someone (in this case, Google) in a position [...]

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How to get on Google’s front page within a few hours. No joke!

11 April 2007 – 10:40 pm

About three hours ago, I posted my Case Study on RemodelingMySpace.com. Then, looking at my stats just now I noticed someone coming to my site from a Google India search on the phrase “case study”. And I figured it had to be a glitch in the matrix, because Google a) doesn’t index that fast, as [...]

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When Google forgets about your blog

11 April 2007 – 3:09 pm

Last week, for a day or so, Google pretty much forgot about my blog. *gasp*
Keywords and keyword phrases that I ranked really well on… well, they just disappeared. And my referral traffic from Google slowed to a pathetic trickle.
I was more than a little worried. Yes, I know Google can do weird things for short [...]

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Another stupid SEO strategy: the filipino link builder who can’t write

15 March 2007 – 9:59 pm

Please note: You are welcome to read this post, but please be aware that I have accepted responsibility for the fact that it is inappropriately abusive and not written in the spirit of encouragement and edification which I would have hoped marked all my writing on this blog. I have unreservedly apologised to the targets [...]

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Social Media, Blog Rage and the Relational Web

12 February 2007 – 11:56 pm

One of the things I spend quite a bit of my time doing is helping clients and prospects understand the difference between a “regular” website and a social network. I spend a lot of my time arguing in favour of “social media”, in the belief that a social media approach is at the heart of [...]

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