I spent the weekend before last searching the internet for news about the well-being of members of my extended family who live just outside Concepcion - the epicentre of the huge earthquake that rocked Chile on 26 February. I was surprised to find that Google quickly became completely irrelevant to my search for information. It [...]

I recently been noticing some new menu options on Google.com - these don’t appear to be visible to everyone or on other regional Google(s).  So for a search for ‘ipod speakers‘ you are presented with a search results page (SERP) like: Down the left hand side you will see there are now options to filter the [...]

At 7am Beijing time Google released a statement yesterday stating that they had a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on their (our) corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.” Google included in their statement that other US companies had been under attack too. It’s no surprise to Google [...]

As part of our decade in search series I wanted to pick out a few highlights that have caught my eye in 2009. We know of late Google has been pumping out new products and services quicker than Santa delivers presents. However, before we even touch the wonderful world of Google let’s take a quick [...]

I have to admit I didn’t find this one but as it’s our Christmas Office party tonight I thought I’d share this fun find. Go to Google and click the “I’m feeling lucky” button ensuring though there is nothing in the search box. Once clicked you get the countdown clock. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year [...]

Google have been very busy innovating because as from yesterday a selective number of users can now view “latest results” which is the incorporation of the most up to date relevant results in to the search results, all of this being done in real time. This will slowly be rolled out to all English [...]

There has been many updates happening over the past few days in Google, a lot of which you can read about in our most recent posts. Just now I have just noticed a further update to the SERPs: You can see on the second listing of this SERP that Google has specified that this site is tailored [...]

There have been significant developments with Google, Bing and of course Twitter of late that has lead to some questions being delivered to us here at iCrossing. I thought it would be good to share some of these questions with the Connect readers and even try answering some of them… What significant implications will this have [...]

Yesterday Google acquired Admob for $750 million. So what does that California based company do? They are specialised in Mobile display and more precisely apps advertising. The success of those bite-size software programs doesn’t need to be demonstrated: Apple announced last week that developers have now created over 100,000 applications for the iPhone and iPod [...]

If you are up to date with SEO you will know that Matt Cutts usually answers the questions from SEOs all around the world in their YouTube channel. On the last round Matt received more than 440 questions in a period of 2-3 days. He obviously cannot answer all of them, and these go through Google [...]