Tim Worstall

If you use the main google page today you’ll note that it’s got a doodle on it.

Yes, when you run the Google barcode back through a barcode reader, it does indeed say “Google”.
But having scribbled about it elsewhere I wanted to use it to make a deeper point for you economic sophisticates. It’s the difference [...]

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So, I’ve found out what seems to be happening at the other site.
Using the link: command, up until last week you’d find that there were 10-11 thousand links to the site.
Now there only seem to be 2,000 or so.
So I know why things are not turning up as front page google results, as they used [...]

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So, anyone know what’s going on with Google then?
Over at the other site we’ve been getting pretty successful at getting first page results for various celebrity stories. OK, so they decay off the front page after a few days, but that’s fine.
But traffic was up at 10k-15k page views a day.
Then two days ago it [...]

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Over at the old blog, a piece on Petronella Wyatt seems to be getting a lot of attention from the search engines.
I wonder why that could be? Has something happened?

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Oh dear, someone really should have a little chat with the Guardian Leader writers.

The proposed merger has been about how other players could combat Google’s increasing arm lock on search and the El Dorado of advertising that goes with it.

Google does indeed have the lion’s share of search activity on the web. It also has [...]

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Top search on Google trends (ie, not the top search on Google, rather, the one which has shown the largest uptick in activity over the past hours or so): 

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And, umm 100% of those searches were coming from Las Vegas. A place, as we know, which had one of the biggest bubbles and is [...]

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Hmmm. It’s happened again.
Over at the other blog, had a piece insanely successful, about a certain Ms. Ashley Alexandra Dupree. It’s not all that fascinating, being simply a link to a number of news stories. But it was a first page Google result for the search term and was bringing in the traffic (some 15 [...]

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The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google.

It’s French money being spent on a French project, so, good luck to them, no skin off my nose. However, I do smell at least a [...]

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No, it’s not quite a Googlewhack, but close.

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This is actually very tough.
Tom’s Postulate on the Universal Nature of Fame
A person is truly famous if and only if his or her name, when entered in quotes into the Google search engine, returns more hits than does the phrase "she moaned."
Mother Theresa. for example, doesn’t make it.
(A search for Internet fame, when it hits [...]

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Clearly doesn’t always run smoothly. Today’s interesting Google search:

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The weirdest thing happened over the weekend. I had a post up at the other place which was getting some fairly serious traffic.  10,000 page views a day or so.
Then, sometime early Sunday morning, Google dropped that post from the index. In fact, they dropped all of my posts that were made on the same [...]

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As I said a few days ago the traditional method of gaining a ranking in Google, using anchor text and linkage, a la Google Bombing, seems not to work any more.
The original entry was at number 41 in the listings, adding (or attempting to add) more mojo to it made it fall, significantly (somewhere in [...]

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