Another week down and another chance to ingest the weekly web wire wind-up. Alliteration aside, there’s plenty going on in terms of some of the webs biggest and boldest. Between Google creating their own live action version of Cars and Yahoo shutting their UK & Ireland directory doors ,there’s more web news than you can shake a keyboard at.
While slightly off the topic of ‘web based’ news, Google’s driver-less cars get an inclusion because well… they're Google's. It seems one day a few months back the Google think tank got together and thought to themselves “oops we’ve got a lot of money. Caught in a rat race terminally!” That might not be how it happened, it was a bit of a Blur (boom boom). In any case, the end result was that Google decided to design cars that could drive themselves and test them out around Los Angeles and San Francisco. Unfortunately the cars went on a rampage with one chasing a Smart car up a tree, another found kerb crawling and the last one was caught jacking up (boom boom).
Also from Google, they decided to demonstrate Google Instant with the assistance of Mr Bob Dylan and his Subterranean Homesick Blues. Apparently the answer is in Google Instant and not blowin’ in the wind as we all expected. Figures. Guess it’s all over now baby Bing because Google Instant took off like a rollin’ stone. Any other Bob Dylan/search engine puns? Comment at the bottom of the post and the best one wins a bucket of Bob Dylan’s tears.
Elsewhere, the end is nigh for the Yahoo UK & Ireland directory. Long considered a useful way to get your website promoted, this UK paid submission platform is going out the window faster that Alice Coopers TV. Set to close in November it’s another retraction of a service by Yahoo who seem to be shrivelling like a week old grape.
From Twitter this week we look at how this little birdie is looking for a big voice as their expanding advertising team looks to make this the platform of the future for business endorsement. Will companies buy into the promoted tweets gimmick?
Making a surprise guest appearance this week is Duck Duck Go, the lesser known search engine who seems to have done something the other larger search engines can’t seem to get to grips with: SSL security. The little search engine that could, has provided not only an https version of itself but returns results which are (where possible) https secure. Something which Google have yet to do, prompting the suggestion that maybe Google should spend less time mucking around with their toy cars and sort out their search engine.
Oh, and while I’m at it, the new version of Google’s Keyword tool sucks harder than the Twilight films. And no that was not a vampire blood sucking pun. They are just awful.
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