Tag Archives: google

Personalisation – You Are The Context

To anyone who has browsed the Internet in the last ten years, you may have noticed the occasional advertisement appearing from time to time. They might be banner advertisements across the top of the page, or ads positioned vertically down the side also known as skyscraper ads. They could be within a defined area on [...]

Slightly Different’s 2012 World Predictions

As this year is predicted by many to be a year of change, I thought I’d throw some more fuel on the fire and make some of my own predictions as to what I think will happen this year. Hopefully, I won’t precipitate a Conspiracy Theory situation where masked agents abseil through my windows if [...]

Google + What’s it all about?

There has been some big (ish) news from the clever people at Google recently. Not content with dominating search around the world, taking over the smartphone OS market and constantly coming up with new and innovative ideas, they have decided to tackle the big one. They are going head to head with Facebook. Yes folks, [...]

It’s official – browser wars are back in fashion !

The Browsers we love to hate The three biggest web-browsers by market share are all launched their latest products last month, with big upgrades in functionality; Surely an endorsement for how competition works in ensuring power and choice to the consumer, with Google committed to releasing a new copy of Chrome every 6 weeks; Resembling a football and funded by Google, [...]

Google move the Goalposts

It’s a game of two halves.. Google is well known for making changes to it’s algorithm (the formula it uses in it’s search).  These changes, Google hope, make search more ‘natural’ and in theory should return better results for users.  Even though the search giant makes around 400 changes to it’s algorithm each year, its [...]