Google has recently put out an update to their ranking algorith called Penguin. Here is a post from www.webpronews.com to tell you all about it. If you are interested in your website rankings and spend money on search engine optimisation, then this is a must read.
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on May 17, 2012 at 12:00AM in Geek Speak , Outraged , Business
Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds
An interesting story has come out of Belgium in the past months.
A group of national newspapers has objected to Google scanning its stories to put onto the Google news service. The logic behind this is pretty obvious. They want people on their site reading the news - either paying via subscription and being subjected to advertisements.…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on September 05, 2011 at 12:00AM in Outraged , Business
There is a report in the Sydney Morning Herald today about a worker who had been fired from his job for online chat during work time. Fair Work Australia ruled the dismissal as unfair. The reason however was because neither party could show evidence - not that chatting online at work was not grounds for dismissal.
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Posted by Andrew Thornberry on June 29, 2011 at 12:00AM in Chit Chat , Outraged , Business
Careful who you get into bed with
These days you do have to be careful who you get into bed with and even then take your shots.
OK, so I am stretching an analogy a bit far there, but for 4800 Australian website owners, the point is being driven home today. Recently DistributeIT, a mid sized and pretty reputable hosting company was very seriously hacked - to such an extent that there are…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on June 21, 2011 at 12:00AM in Outraged , Business
But your honour, it wasn't me!
Milan is synonymous with the glitz and glamour of beautiful models and high-end fashion, but a court case in the historic Italian city has many in the technology world more than a little concerned.
Prosecutors there have brought charges against a number of Google executives over the 2006 publishing of a video that showed the bullying of a disabled teenager in Turin.
Of course the four defendants…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on November 17, 2010 at 12:00AM in Chit Chat , Outraged , Business
What is it with blogging that has everyone going crazy? What's the point in writing reams (or what used to be reams) of text telling people about ... well anything we want? Do we all crave to be authors ... superstars ... teachers ... prophets?
Back when my parents were younger, when a loaf of bread wasn't sliced and you could pay for almost anything with coins, you…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on October 24, 2010 at 11:05PM in Chit Chat , Outraged , Business
