Post 20: Will SEO homogenise English?

August 6, 2009 in Globalism, Search, The future of journalism, Traffic, Web 2.0, Work

I had a conversation yesterday with a colleague and, as often happens these days, the topic turned to getting more traffic for web sites.
One of my colleague’s foremost requests was for me to stop using British English in my writing, and to stop applying it to stories we source from our content partners.
The reason? “Virtualization” [...]

Post 3, 2009. Mnemonics

February 12, 2009 in Freelance life, Search, Web 2.0, Work

I was writing a document yesterday and found myself thinking about which phrases it contained that I would one day use to find it using Google desktop search.
In the past, I imagine I would have thought about the name or been more careful with the folders I saved the file into.
Now my whole thought process [...]

Post 70: If this is what you need to do to get customers, what does it say about your product?

August 10, 2007 in Search, Web 2.0, Work, Worst practise

A couple of days back I installed some new emoticons for MS Windows Live Instant Messenger.
Along the way I forgot to untick the boxes that said ‘Make Microsoft the default for everything’.
The changes that were made were quite easy to undo, other than the default search engine in the address bar.
I have used address bar [...]