Is Google broken? I doubt that very much!

However tonight I noticed these results on page 3 when doing a search for “affordable website design” It’s very strange that nearly all the results on the page are displayed as URL only listings. All the sites I looked at that are listed in this way have titles and descriptions and it’s not as if there aren’t many pages competing for that phrase (only 125,000,000)

I tried quite a few varying terms but everywhere else I look the results seem to be fine. I haven’t noticed anyone talking about this on the SEO forums yet so maybe it’s only a bug relating to the term I tried.

Here’s a screen shot of the results incase it’s only on the datacentre I’m hitting……. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, I just stumbled across this result when searching on Google. Here’s a picture for anyone who doesn’t like to click links.

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As the internet grows ever bigger we continue to see Google swallowing up more and more of it for themselves. As you probably guessed from the title Google has taken over You Tube for the pricey sum of 1.65 Billion USD.
The takeover sent Google shares soaring once again. Yahoo and MSN’s stock prices are down after news of the acquisition.Some more information here from major league blogger Robert Scoble about this buy out.

Here is the official Google press release. Another nice take on the situation here thanks to John Battelle
Maybe one day we won’t call it “the internet” anymore but “the Google” instead!