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Google Social Search for those who don't go on the Internet very often is part of Google's strategy to position itself as more of a social entity. Many of my friends don't know what it is, and some of my colleagues pull funny faces when I talk about it, so in an effort to remove the label of Internet freak from myself, I thought it might be useful to talk about how and why it might become important to businesses looking to connect in social media and why now more than ever, it's vital to get on board and build their social profiles - rob

From the page: "We extremely excited to be announcing two new products that we feel are game changers in terms of how you can leverage analytical data to better understand your site and keywords. I will explain both products in detail and then go into how our company philosophy and direction has changed as well as other changes to the service as a whole." - rob

From the page: "The talk was truely fascinating, and by no means just a simple run down of how the Internet was born. I left feeling Sir Tim Berners-Lee was a true genius, and so genuine. The talk was actually filmed by BBC Click and as I was on one of the front rows you are guaranteed to see me in the background mesmerised by his talk and tweeting updates!" - rob

Google duplicate parameter filtering - rob

Paul O'Connor on trademarks, google, and value add PPC tactics helping you win in the world of Internet Marketing - rob

From the page: "It simply isn't good enough to bang out press releases to news wires and miss the masses of easy win opportunities that are there for the taking, you need to wake up and start delivering or youâ€ll find yourselves over run by others that do." It simply isn't good enough to bang out press releases to news wires and miss the masses of easy win opportunities that are there for the taking, you need to wake up and start delivering or you'll find yourselves over run by others that do. - rob

oh dear! - rob

Jeff Tarango Podcast with Pat Cash - rob

From the page: " Management is all about connecting with the people on your team. So how do you effectively manage a team? With common knowledge, of course. These are a few back-to-basics rules that will help you develop management skills that really matter." - rob

Common tags are as useless as meta tags? - rob

From the page: "Here are some ideas for headlines regarding article writing. These should be very useful if you write about writing. You can use them as they are or they may be a useful resource to spark more ideas." - rob

A look at Bing and alternatives , what they should have done - rob

I was lucky enough to be amongst a handful of people in the preview of Microsoft's new search product, Bing, last Wednesday. The worst part is that they kept the name a secret, and in the ensuing betting, I lost £20 in a pool for the potential name amongst a field of Kumo, Kiev, and Bing by choosing "none of the above" - ever the optimist I suppose... - rob

From the page: "About 30 mins ago someone requested headline ideas for the Twitter niche. He is writing an ebook for the twitter market and hopefully these ideas will help him and others." - rob

From the page: "Chief executive Alex Hoye said: While pay-per-click has started to be viewed as boring by some, we believe it is still sexy, even after all these years." - rob

From the page: "It's akin to a cry of a dinosaur unaware of the impact of the meteor that caused its demise as it choked on a sunlight starved atmosphere, too large to do anything about it, powerful, yet completely powerless to adapt. If institutions like the ones to which Bryan alludes wish to survive, then they need to step up and adapt, else they'll go the way of the dinosaurs too." - rob

"heh I love the english language" - rob

Google recently announced the international launch of Google Suggest. For those not familiar with the tool, this manifests itself in the form of a "real-time" drop down menu whilst users are searching on Google. The drop down menu provides users with a variety of suggestions, which update - rob

"It'll improve their margin, that's a given." - rob

From the page: "For a long time now SEO's have religiously checked their analytics package/packages to see exactly how their sites are performing both in terms of traffic, conversions, bounces and usability. Over time this has become increasingly difficult as there is no single package that can measure everything, especially when it comes to tracking activity from mobile browsing and mobile apps." - rob

From the page: "Put simply, effective use of Social Media is the most strategically important opportunity in online marketing today. It is incredibly cost efficient, scalable and will transform the way you interact with your current and future customers." - rob

"Amazing, things like this just show how thick some Judges can be." - rob

"You stupid person" - rob

"lol no idea!" - rob

"Am I the only one who found that more than a little disturbing?" - rob

"http://digg.com/tech_ne... ... The guy who ran the campaign had some interesting things to say on it too" - rob

"Sure, yet I'm sure that 1000.s followed him thinking he did...Indeed campaign workers did do the tweeting, just good to hear it from the horses mouth :)" - rob

From the page: "A big part of what we do and evangelise about on the Internet is the social angle around how an integrated campaign that joins the dots and connects the strands, has a huge impact on the success or failure of a campaign. So when a colleague Luke Regan told me" - rob

"Photoshop!" - rob

"Not familiar Bob, sounds..um, Google Latitudesque ;0) In a perfect world it's a fab idea - but it aint a perfect world.." - rob