Monthly Archives: February 2008

Interview with Thomas Roberts, co-founder of mobile search The Texperts

The keen-eyed amongst you may have noticed a certain penchant here at Distilled for blogging on the subject of mobile search. In this interview, we were lucky enough to speak to Thomas Roberts, co-founder of The Texperts, an award winning more >

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Google’s Latest Competitor – The BBC?

Today the BBC site launches their new homepage and my initial reaction was to wonder if suddenly they might pose a mighty big threat to Google? Bear with me a second while I ramble on about a few things: The more >

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SCO? In Santa Clara for SMX West

Duncan and I arrived at San Francisco airport yesterday lunchtime (PST) after a 10 hour flight. By 4pm we were in the bar, and a great night followed despite the fact we had been up for about 28 hours by more >

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Who’s top dog in the search engine world? ASK the Chihuahua!

Hitwise, a well-known company that monitors Internet use, has a description on its website of how the UK search engine market share is divided up. Google predictably reigns with its omnipotent 90%-ish share of online search; it is further down more >

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Lovefilm Profile Pages, So Close And Yet So Far…

Dear Lovefilm, Thank you for adding the new feature which allows me to create a profile page on your site. I really like these kinds of features on websites as I love talking about myself (I even google myself from more >

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Sorry, but we have to post it: Sunday papers top trumps (yawn)

I’m getting a little bored of blowing our own trumpet about this, but it would be daft not to link to them. We’re in a great feature in the Sunday Times written by Rosie Millard entitled Help! A net imposter more >

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How to choose a URL for your mobile website

I’ve been writing a lot about mobile stuff recently – I think it’s just been on my mind a lot. With revelations like 50x more iPhone search volume than from any other handset, however, I think we might be hearing more >

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Watch this Space.

We have just put together a blog for Rosie Millard, a journalist with the Sunday Times who is writing an article about online reputation management. We met up with Rosie this morning when she came to our office to pick more >

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¿Hablas inglés? – the trouble with determining language

This post is going to be the first of many talking about geo location and internationalisation* of search results. To start I thought we would take a look at the problems the search engines have trying to ensure they return more >

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Online Reputation Management in Action

I’ve written about how squeaky-clean my online reputation is before. Unfortunately, Will’s search results are a bit less impressive. While there’s nothing negative there it’s a bit cluttered. Time to change that! Will Critchlow is obviously the well known search more >

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