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Comment on Web Development Ennui is the SEO Kiss of Death by Alec

Alec — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:22:13 +0000

Liam this is truly the way to success.

I agree with you that there is still infinite opportunity for those people who are gifted and in it for the long haul.

The carpetbaggers’ days may be soon over though. I won’t miss that.

Your six step is perfect.

Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by American Spelling Issues, Part 2

American Spelling Issues, Part 2 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:26:46 +0000

[...] having our Google.co.uk search results forced into American spellings. (Hobo Web post on that here, Online Sales rant here and our post on when they rolled it [...]

Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by Online Sales

Online Sales — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:06:59 +0000

At the same time do you want to homogenise the States and remove all colloquialisms? Why don’t you go the whole hog and accept Chinese as the mother tongue? Cultural differences make this world a more interesting place.

Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by Fred Roses

Fred Roses — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:07:21 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more constructive if you island-dwellers just gave up the ridiculous extra i in aluminium, accepted the fact that collective-words are singular rather than plural (as in “the jury is”), and dropped all those obsolete and useless extra u’s from simple words like “color”…instead of writing whining, futile editorials? Cultural imperialism? Oh please…

Comment on Canonical Tag – Mostly Harmless by Online Sales

Online Sales — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:45:59 +0000

Update – as of Jan 17 2010 there are 103,000 “pages” left in the index.

Google have now dropped 190,000 versions of the page.

Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by Google rolls back American spelling update

Google rolls back American spelling update — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:32:14 +0000

[...] Patrick Altoft also blogged about the original change, I’d recommend reading that for some background info. If you read it already, then go read it again if for nothing more than to see his cool new Layout. Not sure if its Thesis any more but it looks great ! You can also read Liam Delahunty’s rant on it at Online Sales. [...]

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:20:21 +0000

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:09:34 +0000

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Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by Online Sales

Online Sales — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:09:34 +0000

Many thanks for your comment Stazjia – Looking at the results some British companies that ranked highly for their (and their customers’) preferred phrase are now on the second page.

Hopefully this is just a test, otherwise it might be time to write to our MPs to try and keep some sort of cultural identity in the British version of the English language!

Comment on Google Forcing American Spelling on British Public by Stazjia

Stazjia — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:46:00 +0000

It also must mean that if we use British spelling on a web page, it won’t show up in results when someone uses the US version. I thought that Google showed both so is this a change?

It’s ironic that we Brits were speaking English first. LOL