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The Bubblegum Sci-Fi Remix of The Reeling by American electro-indie band Passion Pit is the perfect subject for a post: it’s a blend of lots of different styles, it’s a remix (my original blog was limited to posts about remixes & samples) and, as it’s used in one of the ads for Skins, the TV [...]

This morning I was mucking about on teh interwebz and decided to check how I was ranking against my name (eGoogling is an addiction, especially once you start to rank quite well): I’m now page 1 for searches for both versions of my first name (both Ciaran & Ciarán, and links with those words as [...]

I am, as anyone who knows me would tell you, a massive fan of The Guardian. I get the paper delivered every Saturday (as well as The Observer, its sister paper, every Sunday). I have its Tech section set-as my homepage on my laptop at work as well as on my Mac & PC at [...]

Anyone who’s familiar with SEO will remember those golden days when it was possible to Googlebomb people. When you could get George W. Bush’s homepage to rank for the term miserable failure. Or Tony Blair to rank for liar. Or, best of all, John Prescott to rank for the phrase f**kwit. Unfortunately those days are [...]

I’ve just got back from a week away, so apologies if this is a bit after the fact, but Victor Keegan over at The Guardian noted that Danny had been looking into whether or not Google is favouring pages from its new Knol service (i.e. its attempt to kill Wikipedia and make some money in [...]

Jeff Jarvis, the well-known professor of journalism & blogger whose opinions I normally totally respect, wrote a post the other day suggesting that the end of SEO is imminent:
Is there a future for SEO? In a sense, Google’s search results were the last one-size-fits-all mass product around (since most other mass media are shrinking): the [...]

It’s always sad when someone you look up to and admire rebuffs your affection. Like when the prettiest girl at school wouldn’t talk to you because you were a nerd (oh, sorry - was that just me? OK).
So I’m slightly disappointed that over the past couple of days The Guardian’s Technology section (which I have [...]

I’ve been following the 2nd SMX Advanced on Twitter today and it’s been great; kind of like when I followed SXSW earlier this year (the thing that reignited my use of Twitter), except that with SMX Advanced I actually know the people there. In fact it’s been rubbish, as it’s highlighted the fact that I’m [...]

I don’t know about you, but I just can’t wait for the Olympics. I think that the Olympics are going to be really interesting, and certainly for anyone interested in sport, the Olympics are sure to be a highlight of the Summer. Certainly I think that the charming men in the blue jumpsuits below will [...]

Back in March of 2007 Matt Cutts posted about a question he’d seen on the Google Webmaster forums: regarding what people should do about the search results pages from within a site, and whether or not those should be open to search engine spiders for crawling.
Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result [...]