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Contact-tracing apps: NHS say no thanks to Apple and Google\’s plan

Apple, Google, Legal, News / Alastair Dowell

With traditional public health contact-tracing methods unable to keep up with the pace of the pandemic, the UK government has been working on a tool to digitally track and warn people who have been around someone who is showing symptoms of the coronavirus. Apple and Google are expected to release their contact tracing technology to developers tomorrow. But

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Beware Android users with Google Play – BankBot found again

Google, Security / Alastair Dowell

Once again the banking malware BankBot has been discovered lurking in Andoid apps in the Google Play shop reports ZD Net. BankBot is not nice and rather clever. It is designed to steal your banking credentials and payment information. It tricks users into handing over their bank details by presenting an overlay window which looks

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Apple and Google to compete with the Amazon Echo device

Apple, Google, Product Review / Alastair Dowell

Apple is pressing ahead with the development of an Echo-like smart-home device based on the Siri voice assistant, according to a report in Bloomberg. They report that the project started more than two years ago and has exited the R&D stage and is now in prototype testing. Like Amazon’s Echo, the device is designed to control

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What impact SEO results

Google, SEO / Alastair Dowell

We get asked all the time \”How to make my website #1 in Google\” and \”How does Google rankings work\”. These are two great questions with complex answers. First thing to remember is that the Google ranking system is a) Super complex, b)Secret and c) Changes all the time. The short answer is that the

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Google edits layout on desktop search by removing right hand side ads

Google, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized / Alastair Dowell

As reported by Search Engine Watch yesterday, Google will no longer be showing ads on the right hand side of its search results pages. This change began on 19 February, and now many search results pages are looking a little bare: Google will now just show ads at the top and bottom of search results page.

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Google under fire from EC

Google / Alastair Dowell

Seems that the EC is hell bent on knocking Google down and beating them up with intent to cause serious harm. Just as they did with Microsoft and the browser wars, that achieved very little for consumers and a large fine for Microsoft. Our friends in Brussels overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators

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All change at Google as Hummingbird is launched

Google / Alastair Dowell

Hummingbird flys With the incessant growth of the World Wide Web and the gazillions of searches asked by the billions of users Google has revamped its algorithms. The way people search is changing, so Google has overhauled its logic to better deal with the vague, rambling questions we bombard it with. The new \”Hummingbird\” update

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SEO link-building and co-citation

Google, Google Analytics, SEO, Tips and Tricks / Alastair Dowell

SEO Thought for the week As part of our role as advising clients on Digital Marketing we virtually always get asked how you get to the top on Google. We always respond with – it depends and this starts a conversation about site designs, rankings, key words and of course SEO. Part of any engagement

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Good news for on-line advertisers

Google, Investing / Alastair Dowell

Google reports and misses expectations. Hot on the heels of Microsoft miss, Google just reported Q2 results short of Wall Street\’s estimates as weakening prices for ad Words and widening losses from its Motorola mobile phone business weighed on the bottom line. The falling ad prices surprised analysts and investors, who expected recent changes to

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Five tips on using Google Analytics

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Five things you should know about Google Analytics Takeaway: Google Analytics is a free analysis service which measures website activity and performance. These five tips can help you get more out of it. Google Analytics is an advanced technology which can help you measure how your company’s online marketing and presence is working. It gathers

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