Have you ever seen those Street View cars cruising round the streets at kerb-crawling speed with futuristic cameras on their roof racks and the Google logo emblazoned on the passenger door? Well it seems that these vehicles weren’t just collecting photos to put on the Street View mapping website to help people have a graphic illustration showing them the location and appearance of streets and… Read more…

And now for something different from Google… Google has come up with a new feature aimed at providing inspiration for people tapping search queries into engines. Apparently you will soon be able to see a list of alternative search queries on the left hand side of your search results page. So presumably if you search the keyword ‘python’ Google will offer you alternative searches such… Read more…

About a week ago, Blogstorm put up a posting inviting people to help them work out the effect that adding a website to your list of favourites can have on a site’s search result ranking. Blogstorm wonders whether clicking on the star to add a site to your list of favourites just bumps the site up your search results page or whether it does so… Read more…

Search Engine Journal has written my favourite post of the week, comparing the work of a SEO to that of a personal trainer. Under the headline ‘Why SEO is like the Biggest Loser (an American weight-loss reality show apparently)’ Ross Hudgens details how SEOs have to change their clients’ ‘dietary’ habits in the form of changing things like their title tags. Ross points out that… Read more…

A technical ‘blip’ which meant you could get anyone to follow you on Twitter without their permission has been rectified, it has been reported. The problem seemed to affect celebrities more than the average person on the street, with the likes of Demi Moore, Stephen Fry and Sarah Brown suddenly finding they were following the mundane tweets of Joe Bloggs up and down the country.… Read more…