13 May 09 A long time coming

Aside from a few experimental posts on this blog over the past 12 months that were written with the intention of testing some theories about what does well in Digg and what doesn’t, I’ve not been doing a great deal of “proper” blogging - I tend to do my updates and rants via Twitter these days.

Thing is though, 140 characters might be enough to make a snarky comment or share a link or two, but it isn’t really enough to say anything profound about a subject. It also means that I’ve missed out on making comments on the SEO industry, which is what I’m more interested in.

Just look at what I haven’t* blogged about recently…

Google Vince Update

Increased focus on promoting bigger brands in the Google SERPS to “protect” customers

April 1st Updates

Increased number of universal search inclusions, mini links, introduction of Google Suggest in the UK, and of course the localised IP based search results.

Launch of Wolfram Alpha

and of course the subsequent back in the bunkers move

Google Squared

Which is much the same as Wolfram Alpha

Kumo Search from Microsoft

Don’t need to say much about this at the moment

Reintroduction of Jeeves

to perennial drain circler Ask (face it guys, its time to give up)

Yahoo closing GeoCities

That’s a huge chunk of naturally given editorially safe links to established websites deleted

and more…

That was all I could think of in the space of five minutes.