Logos last a lifetime. At least they’re supposed to, right? Most of us agree that when designing a logo, it’s best to avoid the latest trends (think corporate swoosh—bleh!) and stick with a composition that will look good in 10 years. So the question I’ve been mulling over for the past month is: Does this [...]

London – The cat is finally out of the bag – Google is all set to launch an own-brand smartphone as early as 2010 in its first major attempt to take on Apple’s iPhone.
According to reports flooding the internet highway, the smartphone, code-named Nexus One, has been designed by a handpicked Google team and will [...]

The Wall Street Journal have reported that Microsoft and Yahoo are hours away from announcing a search and online advertising deal. According to Kara Swisher, a blogger for The Wall Street Journal, negotiations have been successfully wrapped up on a deal that is expected to have Microsoft’s search technology used on Yahoo sites.
This new Microsoft-Yahoo [...]

Very simply if a company offers to have your site listed on the top of the first page of Google within 3 days, 1 week or some other silly amount of time for £99 – it is a lie.
Companies out there are charging anything from £99 upwards for these type of services, and as soon [...]

1. Sitemaps
Sitemaps are a great way of telling Google what pages you want to be indexed.
Google will index your site regardless of using a sitemap, however, this tool makes it easier for Google to index those pages you want it [...]

Crawling
Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or “crawl”) billions of pages on the web. The program that does the fetching is called Googlebot (also known as a robot, bot, or spider). Googlebot uses an [...]