There are always new ways to evaluate online marketing or search engine optimisation. Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google’s keyword analysis tool at www.google.com/sktool. It analyses a given website and gives you a list of keywords it finds and teells you you how many searches the keywords or phrases have
There’s a new service from Google called Subscribed Links. http://www.google.com/coop/subscribedlinks/ It enables you to create custom search results that you can add to your Google search pages. Users can display links to services for their customers, as well as providing news and status information updated in near-real-time, answering of questions,
A new search engine launched this week which claimed to be a challenger to Google. Cuil (pronounced Cool) was developed by former Google search experts. It claims to combine the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. The launch was not without
I’ve been writing less in the blog at the moment – lots of effort is going into the ELKS “Advent of Technology” Calendar, full of people’s favourite tools for teaching and learning with technologies. You don’t even have to be a member to see the calendar :) DIRECT LINK to
Marion Miller, Manager, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, University of Leeds, summed up the contributions to the theme: Learning technology for the social network generation. She made an interesting suggestion that the VLE “has had its day”. The focus is moving away from VLEs towards social networks
According to this story on the BBC today, Google is expanding its empire into universities – with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google’s e-mail service. Apparently Trinity College Dublin has switched over entirely to Google’s e-mail. The new Google-based e-mail addresses (which can still be applied to