29 September 2011 0 Comments

Google at thirteen

Google celebrated its thirteenth birthday on Tuesday 27 September 2011. Danny Goodwin reminds us that the “terrible teens” can affect companies and organisations as well as people.

23 August 2011 0 Comments

Related material: a Google extension

Do you want help with finding related material during a search? Try Google Related.

4 August 2011 0 Comments

A fresh round of cuts at Google!

Under Larry Page’s management, Google seem to be redefining its business and slimming down the facilities offered by the company.

1 August 2011 0 Comments

Inside Google, by an insider

So, what was it like to work for Google in the early days?

22 July 2011 0 Comments

Now you see it . . .

Several useful search features have been withdrawn from the Google site without explanation. Why?

18 July 2011 0 Comments

Facebook versus Google+: is it really a competition?

Google is always an interesting company to watch — but is its Google+ experiment in social networking sufficiently distinctive?

16 February 2011 0 Comments

The underside of Google?

Some companies have received very high ranking in searches through the manipulation of search results.

22 January 2011 0 Comments

Google “bias” survey — start of a flame war?

Results of a survey of bias in the search algorithms of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Ask.

11 January 2011 0 Comments

2011 — It’s going to be VEVEM!

Very Exciting and VEry Messy — that is what Mark Anderson, a technology commentator interviewed on the BBC World Service, has to say about the year 2011.

7 January 2011 0 Comments

The year of searching

A review of 2010 from the perspective of search engine design.