It’s funny how the rest of the world moved on in design terms, but Google has stayed very much the same. There’s a good reason for it of course: they built their success on a simple, clutter-free user experience and it would be madness to change that. So, while they’ve tweaked a few things over […]
Google is essentially an advertising company. Advertising revenue drives most of the company’s activities, but its policies around advertisers has led to them getting into “hot water” in the past. Why? Because “bad actors” try to abuse Google Adwords to promote counterfeit goods, scams and a range of other illegal or misleading activities. As part […]
Remember .xxx domains that launched a few months back? Well the guys behind the .xxx domain registry are launching a new search engine specifically for “developed” .xxx websites. The new search engine is using a pretty obvious and easy to remember name – search.xxx While the new search engine is unlikely to be a “Google […]
Search engine giant Google has announced a change to how it treats certain types of sites in search results. In a blog post the company announced that sites with a large number of copyright claims against them would be penalised: Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: […]
