Tag results: #google

Google Chrome and paid links →

So, if I undersand this correctly, Google paid for a load of blog posts, which broke its own webmaster rules. This was discovered and blogged about by a huge number of tech blogs, providing Google with a load of inbound links. Google then punished itself and removed the paid listings which caused another load of posts by tech news blogs, providing it with even more inbound links.

Or am I just being cynical?

Posted on January 4, 2012Permalink

Google support Mozilla for another 3 years →

We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.

I wonder how much longer Google will continue to do this, given what appears to be the start of a noticeable decline in Firefox use.

Posted on December 23, 2011Permalink

What if your hard drive died? →

A couple of weeks ago Chris Coyier tweeted the following “You could wake up tomorrow and your main hard drive could be dead. Are you ready?”. This got me thinking; if I woke up tomorrow and my main hard drive was dead, what would I lose? As it happens, after giving it some thought, I think I’m pretty much as safe as I can be, and I don’t even take any backups. Unintentionally, I’ve got myself into the situation where I’m working almost exclusively from “the cloud” with almost zero reliance on local data… and I...

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Posted on December 18, 2011Permalink