A Michael Broad Blog
By ‘thicker’ I mean more stupid. Here are two clear examples concerning one search term. The search term is: “In general, humans don’t like their anatomy. INFOGRAPHIC“. As I created the infographic, I know what it is about, which is the possible detrimental effect on health of disliking one’s anatomy. Firstly, Google consistently tries …
AVOID websites answering the question “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” If you search for “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” you may find yourself clicking on Google search result which takes you to a website which has been created by malware hackers. The site that you visit may download malware (poisonous software) to …
Website owners can ‘re-program’ search engines using English to request improved search result rankings. Yes, No? To re-phrase that: English language dialogue with search engines is now possible to improve SEO. I am speculating. But read on to see what you think about this fast-moving development. My hypothesis here is that it would seem …
Google Scholar must be embarrassed by news that two guys managed to submit nonsense academic papers ostensibly written by a cat called Larry which was cited by others and which led to Larry being ranked higher academically than real academics! The guys who organised this have exposed, they believe, a flaw in the highly …
I have just been doing some research to find out if Paris cleaned up the streets by removing stray cats and dogs before the Olympics using Bing’s search engine. China did this before their hosting of the Olympics in the cruellest way. And Russia before the World Cup. Internet search has changed dramatically by …
A lot has been said about Google search console core web vitals – by Google! They claimed that if you didn’t get your website sorted out with excellent, across the board core vitals pass marks your website would be ranked poorly in Google search results. I for one took this to heart and after …
Introduction – message to Messrs Google & Co: sorry for this apparent criticism. I am not actually criticising Google here; just explaining what I think is happening. I could be wrong. It just looks like that. In some ways I agree with shrinking the internet. It is too big; a sprawling mass of websites, …
I asked Google’s Gemini (AI bot) if the statement in the question is accurate. The last search engine algorithm change by Google (about May 2024) which decides where to rank websites in search results has been devastating for millions of websites. Yes, millions of websites. A survey published on the BBC site found that …
