06 Jan 11 Raining In London
No surprise there you may say. London, and the UK has a reputation as a ‘rainy place’.
When I was in Charleston in South Carolina, on the east coast of the United States, I would often have people say to me that England is where it rains all the time.
Well, I used to put Charlestonians right and point out that the annual rainfall in Charleston is, at around 52 inches a year, a little over double that of London at about 25 inches.
The good people of Charleston were often surprised to hear about hose pipe and car washing bans in the south-east of England too.
Well, today in this part of London at least, it’s raining. Even so, it’s not raining heavily. No Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s not Charleston rain, when you get soaked through to your underwear dashing across the parking lot from store to car. No, it’s London rain, which is often not more than heavy drizzle.
It’s milder today anyway, so that was a bonus. Anyway, I had a doctor’s appointment this morning, so out in it I had to go.
I donned coat and cap, and set out. The surgery is only about 5 minutes walk from here in any case, and I am enjoying being able to walk to most of the local amenities once again. It’s not a mile and a half to the nearest 7-11 anymore!
Anyway, I’ve been in London now for six weeks, and in that time, it’s snowed twice for about four hours each, and there’s been just two rainy days. So much for it raining all the time!
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29 Aug 08 I Suggest That Suggest Will Change SEO
With Google Suggest users are going to start to type in words for what they’re looking for, and find that Google is effectively going to hold their hand. This could mean that those sites that use long-tail keywords will need to re-think their SEO.
Why? Well the average user is going to start to type in words, and Google is going to attempt to finish it off for them, instead of the user doing it for themselves.
Think about it for a moment. You want to search for a new home on the east coast. As it goes now, you might well type in “east coast homes for sale” and see what Google gives you. With Google Suggest, as you start to type, Google will give you a list of suggestions. Therefore you won’t be finishing the search string you were going to put it, as once you get to say “east coast homes” you’ve already got a long list of suggestions, so you’ll pick one of those instead.
In my opinion it could alter the whole dynamics of SEO in a fundamental way.
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