Here’s a post for a relatively slow Friday afternoon: two ads for Bing that vaguely tie in with Halloween. Halloween is generally speaking a children’s holiday. So first comes a “Bing Goes the Internet” video featuring elementary school children. Years from now this may qualify as a pop-culture nostalgia moment:
And then a more sophisticated and [...]

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Friday 30th October
Webmaster Call – MySQL databases
Friday nite is server nite – Webmaster call in yorgotalk.com – Understanding and learning the basics.
This Friday we covered MySQL databases: cleaning databases and understanding the features and functions.  It is important to keep your tables optimised in order to keep your site running [...]

Bing has announced a couple additions to its mobile browser today: expanded NFL information and airline flight status reports.

The NFL feature works by typing in a team or player’s name, and provides stats, scores, and schedule details. Bing also says you’ll get “eal-time updates on the plays” while a game is being played.
The flight status [...]

Fifteen-days ago, Google dropped PageRank values from Webmaster Tools and the search community took that as a bold statement. The statement was clear, webmasters “shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much,” said Google.
Last night, Google pushed out a Google Toolbar PageRank update, despite making that bold statement just a couple weeks ago. As Danny [...]

While real-time search gets all the attention these days, there’s also increased interest in hyperlocal search. Where real-time search answers What’s happening right now?, hyperlocal search answers the question, What’s happening right here? It’s like local search on steroids, you could say.
Outside.in has, for several years, been somewhat like a clearinghouse of hyperlocal information and [...]