Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Google This – 13 Years of World Domination Visualized

14 September, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Excellent collection of graphical illustrations of Google's growth to "world domination", courtesy of Inspired Magazine.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: Google, history, internet, searchengine, statistics, teaching, visualization

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit

2 June, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Danny Sullivan:

On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch how the mainstream media, which often claims bloggers rip it off, does a little stealing of its own.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: Bloggers, citizenjournalism, dannysullivan, Google, msm, teaching-example

Google nails Express sites over paid links

24 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Malcolm Coles:

Google says it has "taken action" and no longer trusts links from a major UK newspaper group – apparently referring to the Daily Express website.

In April, an Express Group email was made public offering links in online "SEO editorials" from £1,000 – with the aim of improving search engine rankings.

Such paid links are against Google's "terms of service" – and the Express (and OK) site initially suffered a page rank penalty in Google's toolbar (ie not much of a punishment at all).

But Google has now gone further, according to an interview with Google's search quality team at Digital Inspiration.

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The only incident I know of recently in the UK is the Express case – so Matt Cutts appears to be saying the Express site (and presumably OK site) are no longer trusted.

Whatever your views on outing SEO tactics, this would be a fairly severe penalty for not using nofollow on paid links if carried forward.

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Del.ici.us tags: malcolmcoles google dailyexpress seo advertorial pagerank termsofservice

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: advertorial, dailyexpress, Google, malcolmcoles, pagerank, seo, termsofservice

Google Font Directory

20 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Can't wait for widespread use of new HTML5 font feature, and now Google is doing its bit to simplify embedding of fonts:

    "The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

    View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site."

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    Del.ici.us tags: html5 font embed webdesign google

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: embed, font, Google, html5, webdesign

General Election 2010 – Google

5 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    UK Election search trends from Google.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: election2010, Google, search, trends

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