Archive for March, 2009

I post on a few forums, and this week came across  a real sad case.  I will keep it deliberately vague as I don’t want to identify anyone or anything.

A company that had been trading for over 20 years woke up to find their website down. they chased their supplier who told them he would sort it. He then came back and said ‘your domain is in redemption’, don’t worry, I will sort it…. Read the rest of this entry »

Lots of things going on with Google at the moment.

1. Google earth street view has launched in the UK. 

2. Google mail (GMail.com) went down again for the second time this month

3. Google keyword tool went nuts, showing all sorts of results due to a ‘glitch’

4. I have seen more instances of Google confusing dropping index pages.

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The cases are unpacked, the tans are fading, the memories of a great honeymoon are still fresh in the mind, then BOOM!!! The bomb drops as the credit card bill arrives, and you realize you now have to get back to reality and start paying for everything.

YES. The Honeymoon is over!

The same is now true for all those people who married Google’s payment system (Google Checkout) to their shopping cart checkout systems. Lured by the HUGE carrot of 10 times their ad spend as free processing, they switched. Well now that honeymoon will be over from may 2009, and the loving willing bed-mate you had for that brief period, has turned into a distant, selfish money grabber, same as all the others… Read the rest of this entry »