that canadian girl

[Disclaimer: I realise the last thing I should be doing is giving this guy more visibility and mentions on the web, but his original article, as well as his follow-up REALLY rubbed me up the wrong way and I need to vent it out.] When I took on my first marketing role, some years ago [...]

Every so often, I trawl through my blog’s search logs to find out what topics have ignited the interest of readers. There’s the top content, the usual search terms. But then there’s the dregs, the random gobshite some people search for that leaves me completely mystified HOW that landed them on my blog! So here’s [...]

Since Ask.com’s good old Jeeves was fired a few months ago, it’s been clear that something was brewing behind closed doors and that a great relaunch was bound to happen soon. It’s now happened. A viral, out-of-the-box, really groundbreaking campaign about an information revolution. At least, that’s how it sounded back in the boardroom where [...]

Just a quickie to highlight the second April Fool’s joke, Google TiSP, its new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Easy, user-friendly system!

Lately, I’ve been getting a bit sick of staring at a screen all day. Email in, email out, do this, do that. Blergh! But looks like Google has solved my problem, again! Gmail Paper is a new service, just arrived to the UK after some US trials, which allows you to request paper copies of [...]

It’s been a long time since I published some of my favourite Google search results landing people onto my blog, so after reading Google’s own end-of-year Zeitgeist, I thought this would be a great opportunity to pick and choose some of the funniest search keywords from 2006 (since top keywords are a bit too boring [...]

*Throws self to the ground in desperation* It seems Heather’s forecast on Ugg boots being popular again this winter wasn’t a fluke, and wasn’t a local thing either. Bill, also from Hitwise, confirms that the trend has been set in the US as well. It’s a worldwide plague! Oh well… it’ll give the Fug girls [...]

Every few months, I like to post some of the most unusual and bizarre Google searches that have landed people on my site. It’s a good laugh so I thought I’d share it. “turkey twizzlers nutritional breakdown” – 95% fat, 5% gristle, hope that helps you! “how do i get rid of love handles if [...]

The Google Labs area is always bubbling away with new ideas and great, or sometimes not so great, tools. (Nothing wrong with “not so great” tools, what benchmark for greatness would we have without average tools to compare them to?) So this morning, Google Trends caught my attention when Matt Cutts blogged about it. As [...]

London buses have joined the trend and solved budgeting issues by using Google AdSense on the ad panels of its fleet of buses. Somebody made a funny!