The day after noticing MSN ‘predicting search’ for ‘the Apprentice BBC’. MSN carry it on to a new day about ‘Cricket World Cup’. This is probably going to end up being really annoying

I really am working on a new design, it’s just taking some time, but as you can see from my great Nav bar, it fucks up when there’s too many categories so am working doublely fast to get this design implemented

For those of you who have seen the odd time stamp by Google in their SERPs, I have found a way for them to be permanetley displayed

For those of you who don’t know, the time stamp only appears when you actually click on a result (as in, Google keeps a record of the time you clicked on the results) and looks like this:

As you can see, the results I have visited have a time stamp next to them.  Now the way to make this display is very simple, type in your search query followed by a %… That’s it! no playing around with the URL or anything just a simple % at the end of the search query.

BTW - I haven’t found a way to turn it off yet apart from clearing your cookies.

With all the press recently of companies having to move online or die you begin to wonder how much of the ‘physical’ world is going to be left.  Will you be able to stroll into town on a Sunday morning or will you have to surf down to a virtual store to do your shopping?

With more and more companies loosing out on profit due to being outdone by online stores, it’s looking more and more likely with the likes of HMV and Woolworths losing a massive share of sales.  I wonder how long it will be before Walmart start getting into Second Life?  And with mobile phones becoming more powerful and finding ever more uses, how long before we can SMS for our shopping?

The future of physical shops is going to be quite bumpy for a fair few industries but as long as the pubs stay physical I’m fine

Today someone from my work informed me about some rather strange MSN is doing.  When you go to MSN.co.uk (yes .co.uk, not .com) you will come to the MSN home page with all the usual ‘noise’ on it.  However you’ll notice straight away what’s in the search box.

I have never searched for this nor have I done any searches similar to this.  Could this be a new CPC style system? have the BBC paid a few £££s to make this happen? or does MSN think this is a useful search to the majority of the searchers?

This is just a quick post about me experimenting with links. There’s really no point in reading this as it’s just a quick post, nothing to see here people, carry on

tihs si a bolg psot of misellped worsd ot ese hwo teh sreach eingnes hnadel ti.   I wnat ot ese fi teh sreach eingnes cna udnersantd ti nad fi ti rknas fro anthiny.

wsih em lck.

It’s my Birthday! woohoo! Today I’m the grand age of 20 at long last.  So that means I can do everything in the UK but drive HGV’s and I’m still not old enough to drink in America

If your going to SEO days today, prehaps you could get me a birthday pint?