Business Insider are reporting a “Code Red” alert being issued over at Google as the management team panic about the image of ChatGPT on their search engine business. It’s a great reminder that no business, no matter how large, is immune to disruption. Google is sitting on a database of
I’m amazed this video isn’t being shared more widely… Under the new rules that Twitter might roll out, paying users of Twitter will “outrank” non-paying users when it comes to visibility. The original purpose of the blue tick, which was to verify people with public identities were who they said
I saved this image when I first saw it back in October. Since then, Elon Musk has bought Twitter, and in the days and weeks that have followed the acquisition, there has been a crash in advertising revenue, mass layoffs, and an exodus of users. Amongst those losing their jobs
A little while ago I wrote about how easy it was to launch a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint against a website and how writers and other creatives could use this to get websites that were stealing their content removed from the Google index. (And, if you’re not on
If you’ve worked for any serious amount of time in eCommerce or digital marketing, you’ll have come across a client who wants to copy functionality or design from another company. They probably also think it’s easy to do this. (True story, I once had a customer push me aside to
Throughout my career in digital marketing, there were a few rules that I always held to be immutable. One of them was this – If you can automate it, it’s probably SPAM. This rule steered me the right way on many occasions when tempting shortcuts were offered to me. I’d
My ruthless cull of domains continues! Now that all of my books, short stories, and movies are listed on this site I’m dropping more of my niche-specific domains and redirecting all of the traffic here. In some instances, the timeline for this is short, the expiry for the domains coming
I find a strange joy in unearthing things I’ve made and forgotten about. I’m vain enough not to see anything cringe-worthy in Googling myself and as I’ve been collecting and collating all of my various online personas into this single website, I’ve been quite astonished at the number of things
In a boost for digital agencies with names like “Tangarine Kangaroo” or “Excessive Aubergine”, brands that took the name of a thing and just shoved “ly” or “ify” on the end, and former digital marketing CTOs who have decided to dump nearly all their domain names and put all their
Changes are afoot in my online presence. After some four years or more of managing multiple websites for my various projects I’ve finally broken down and decided that enough is enough. Going back maybe five years, I combined all my websites into one. It was a mad, eclectic mess where