Here in the Natural Search department we use Excel. A lot. And frequently we are taking data from the web (such as from the rather good Open Site Explorer) and manhandling it in order to make more sense of it. As part of this process, it’s often helpful to be able to quickly pull out [...]

A few weeks ago I created an extension that would number the search results in Google and Google UK. I’ve now updated it so it works on all Google regional engines, as well as Yahoo and Bing including all their regional engines. It also now has another feature which I thought would be quite helpful; one-click switching [...]

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 [...]

A few days ago jennita published a comparison between The Princess Bride and SEOs following a twitter conversation. I didn’t really get it until a couple of days ago when I watched the film. I am going to be slightly geekier and make a comparison that everyone (except trekkies) will understand. Search and Star Wars. [...]

So you’ve got a website, you think it’s cool and you’re pretty sure other people will like it, but you’re just not getting the traffic, so what can you do about it?  Well there are a number of simple and some not so simple things you can do to get more people coming to your [...]

We’re creating destination guides for a major UK airline. So I’ve been looking at the content on other airline websites. Here’s a page I came across on KLM’s site. It’s the first paragraph of the country guide to The Netherlands. Book airline tickets to The Netherlands for the laidback lifestyle of its canal-strewn capital Amsterdam [...]

HTML Links, Google Web Spider, Google Toolbar, Google Analytics, iGoogle and now Chrome. I would like to be wrong but I can’t help it but think that Google Chrome, a brand new web browser from Google, is just another way for Google to collect data for their index and feed more information into their organic and [...]