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Using the Google AJAX Search API: JSON serialisation with .NET

Google’s AJAX Search API is designed to let you add searches to web pages via JavaScript. However, there’s nothing to stop you using .NET to execute searches on the server side.

Posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Web spam: How Google and other search engines catch spammers

Web spam is content that is designed to trick search engines into directing traffic towards them – how do search engines identify it?

Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Search engine optimisation: Why I don’t trust search engine results

The top ten results in any particular search are not necessarily the most relevant and authoritative sites, but merely the most expertly optimised. Are search engines being undermined by the SEO industry?

Posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008

Are paid links now being penalised by Google?

There seem to have been significant fluctuations in the Google rankings recently. I have noticed a trend which appears to be Google’s reaction to certain links and trying to filter out their influence.

Posted on Saturday, March 29th, 2008