Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Just renewed my motor insurance. I got a renewal quote from my current insurer (AutoNet) for £480 pounds. Typed "car insurance" into Google and spotted a funny little 'sponsored' box at the top of the results:
I don't usually click on the sponsored ads, expecting prices from sponsoring companies to include ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
I made a multi-language page for Lolyco.com recently that switches between language based on the Accept-Language header sent by the User-Agent or by setting a session variable. There's an English version (the default), a Malay version and a Chinese version. I've had sites online before that are aggressively crawled by ...
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
It was my birthday a few days ago, so I told everybody that I was now "The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything". If you're not familiar with Douglas Adams' book (or the BBC TV serialisation) "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy", that probably won't mean anything to ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
A couple of customers of Lolyco.com have been asking this weekend when their orders will be delivered to Australia. When an order is shipped from Lolyco.com, an email is sent to the customer with a link to Pos Malaysia's Parcel Tracking System and the Parcel Tracking Reference. First things first, ...
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