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Google Wedding Planner

Posted by on March 3, 2011 at 1:06 am

For those who are looking to plan a wedding will know, most/all wedding planing is now carried out online. If you are looking a wedding venue, inviting guests with email or inviting them with facebook events etc you will know that without the Internet there would be a lot of leg work. Marry Google! People [...]

Google Streetview Trikes

Posted by on March 3, 2011 at 12:35 am

Talking to a business recently about tourism in rural Ireland and they were suggesting that they were thinking of getting a company to create a few 360 degree images for Tourism. Well I would suggest they think about just letting the biggest tech business doing it for them or asking them to come and visit [...]

Google Streetview in Wexford!

Posted by on September 30, 2010 at 8:08 pm

In April 2009 I wrote about Google in Gorey and how they had been driving around the area in their Black Google car with a large 360 dome camera on top mapping their way around Ireland. Well it’s been a while in the making but today they launched the results. In April 2009 I wrote [...]

Google Alerts not used!

Posted by on June 14, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Google have been contacting the people to who use their email alert service to tell them that due to the fact that not many people actually using the service they provide, they will be altering the way in works in the future. Interesting to see that people are not using it as we know that [...]

Goldenpages have a deal with google?!

Posted by on April 21, 2010 at 5:36 pm

A question arose today where a caller to the office was wondering if Truvo / Golden Pages had done a deal with Google. The answer is Yes, but so has everyone who has a Google Account ! Looking further it looks like they are just selling Google Adword. What are Google Adwords? This is a [...]

Does “size” matter? !!

Posted by on April 15, 2010 at 9:26 pm

Yes,  the age old question that every web designer looses sleep over, Does Size Matter? Does Size Matter? Deos Size Matter? The answer is yes, for over 10 years now we have been creating websites that abide to Google Webmaster rule and keep website page small in order to help keep the Size of the [...]

Has Google changed?

Posted by on April 1, 2010 at 8:58 pm

Yes, is the answer. The latest changes to the number one search engine in Ireland has finally come online. These latest updates to it’s functionality are pushing the ability of local search right down to the county level. Before we were able to choose by the world or pages from Ireland. Now we can step [...]

Facebook overtakes Google!

Posted by on March 16, 2010 at 8:58 pm

News today that Facebook have overtaken Google as the number 1 website in terms of visits according to “Hitwise”. This is something I was only giving a talk about today to a group of business people here in the south east. I was explaining that social media needs to be managed correctly by staff of [...]

Google Buzz Feedback?

Posted by on February 12, 2010 at 7:32 pm

Hearing interesting things about the new social media offering from Google called Google Buzz, it looks like their privacy policy and the fact that you can edit a on going conversation to alter the meaning means that this would be used by someone from the Dark side!!! Gonna play around with it over the weekend [...]

Managing Google Adword campaigns?

Posted by on February 12, 2010 at 12:43 am

So there I was today having lunch with a Internet Marketing guy I know in the Amber Springs hotel in Gorey and the two of us going on about how to manage adword campaings successfully and then we discussed the different methods of managing them, different keywords to use, different settings. . . localisation and [...]

Google Voice Search

Posted by on December 22, 2009 at 4:48 pm

As any of our regular readers know we are always saying how “The web is Everywhere”. Well no more so than on mobile phones and with the looming Christmas gift giving season upon us there is no avoiding speak of Apps and Downloads etc. Google have recently launched their Google Mobile App which allows a [...]

Facebook Privacy Policy?

Posted by on December 16, 2009 at 7:25 pm

With all the bitching and moaning about the changes to the Facebook privacy policy we have to ask ourselves why are they now changing as they have always been one of the most private social medial websites for people to network and meet up. We believe that it ultimately has to do with search engines [...]

What does google want?!?

Posted by on December 11, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Make up your mind! Sitting here working away on a busy Friday after singing happy birthday to Mary and eating our squashy buns from Joanne’s, we heard one of our pc’s in the office saying “google alert” over and over again. (yes it’s annoying, we usually have the sound turned down) It was a Google [...]

Are Google Telephoning Companies about Adwords?

Posted by on November 18, 2009 at 10:24 pm

We had a meeting today in which the client told me that he had a Telephone call from Google this morning asking him if he needed help spending the Voucher they had send him. We have spoken about this before about Vouchers from Google but were interested to hear that the caller who identified himself [...]

How to get to the top of Google?

Posted by on July 14, 2009 at 10:56 am

Google’s listing, How do they work? We have had a number of inquiries from companies this week asking us to help them get on top of Google.  It’s interesting to see how the “recession in the building trade” has pushed into many other aspects of life in Ireland. One inquiry today asked if we could [...]