Archive for Jake Doran
The Google Round-up Rodeo
Every morning, my first thought on waking is, invariably, ‘What have Google been doing while I was asleep?’ I rub my bleary eyes, stretch, and let out a moan so wretched and foul that nuns across the world shudder as one, cross themselves and invoke the Holy Father. Why do I get so upset? Because no one has compiled a short blog post rounding up minor changes that Google have made to their search engine.
What Skittles Did Next… Social Media Re-Mixed
Skittles’ recent social media campaign has garnered quite a bit of comment in recent months. In one of the bravest moves by a large brand in recent memory, Skittles transformed their entire website into a feed displaying all mentions of Skittles on Twitter.
News + Social Media = Social News?
How do you find news on the web? Do you go straight to your favourite blogs and news sites or do you use an RSS reader? Or are both of these options too old hat? Facebook and Twitter look to be changing things.
Rich Snippets: Who is He?
Last year Google introduced Rich Snippets to their search results (we even blogged about it here). Originally, there were options to enhance results with reviews and information about people. They have since added support for videos and most recently, events. Why? And who is the mysterious man ‘Rich Snippets’
Sentiment Analysis and Helping the Robots Understand Sarcasm
As we all know from watching Terminator 2 and The Matrix, robot-human communication can be rocky. Machines can’t understand human love or sarcasm. However, an enterprising company from America has aimed a little lower with a tool to help robots understand that other mystery: sarcasm.
How Google Uses Synonyms to Expand Search Results…
Google has long used synonyms to gather more accurate search results. So far, it seems that Google has only used this technique for simple searches like place names and abbreviations. It is beginning to look as though Google will expand the use of similar words into wider search terms, having recently filed a new patent for search using synonyms.
Things To Stay On Top Of: A (Simple) Social Media Planning Checklist
There’s quite a lot to keep track of across the Social web, so we’ve compiled a simple list of the essential things you should be doing into a handy checklist. If you monitor nothing else, you should at least do these things…
Google Research Notes: SERP Refinements and What They Mean To You
Here at C&M, we like to stay abreast of what those clever peeps at Google are up to, and recently they’ve been making some slight changes to their search engine. Here’s our round up… A quick overview of the changes afoot, and what they might mean to you…
Google Commerce Search: What is it and is it Worth it?
While Google has already entered the ecommerce sector with services like Google Checkout and Google Products, their impact has been relatively low. Google’s recently announced ‘Commerce Search’ looks to change this and has important differences from its previous forays into retail…
Google Keeps Tinkering with its SERPs: As Demonstrated By Rod Hull and Emu
Over the past few months, you may have noticed links appearing within the description snippets on Google’s SERPs. These extra links are appearing with most regularity for Wikipedia results. To demonstrate, here is a search for a dearly missed personal hero, Rod Hull…
What’s a Social Media Agency?
Rocket science not included. Proceed at ease...
Get the Scoop on Social Media PR…
Been there, seen it, bought T-Shirt, wrote it up....
What the Hell is Social SEO?
Clue: it's not spammy and it adds value to users....
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If Trad Digital Agencies Did Engagement/PR/Social (Who Moved My Cheese/Fees?)
Dear Mr/Ms Brand Manager, if the agency who builds your web properties is also responsible for engagement / PR / etc, then would they be building things differently? We think so…
The Google Round-up Rodeo
Every morning, my first thought on waking is, invariably, ‘What have Google been doing while I was asleep?’ I rub my bleary eyes, stretch, and let out a moan so wretched and foul that nuns across the world shudder as one, cross themselves and invoke the Holy Father. Why do I get so upset? Because no one has compiled a short blog post rounding up minor changes that Google have made to their search engine.
