The semantic web is a totally logical concept. The web would be better and easier if meaning was intrinsic to each page and data source. Eliminating ambiguity would be less fun but more efficient (however, I am sure the spammers would lessen at least some of the upside). Happy days eh!

My thoughts on this have always been that most things on the web don’t even have good basic mark up, let alone microformat, RDF, etc. tagging. So, even though the train may be coming, don’t expect it to stop at a town near you anytime soon!

When I think about the semantic web I always wonder where Google sits with all of this and how they could help to push the thing that would change their algorithm more than anything else (think of Heinz changing their ketchup recipe and times this by infinity, and you still won’t get close). Well, here is an interesting one, Google using microformat and RDF tags to aid snippets in search results.

It is worth taking note of this one for lots of reasons. Let’s see how this develops, but in the mean time it is well worth thinking about how naked your snippets will look next to your competitors if you don’t take this on board.

Anyone want a click?

All you devotees of ‘advanced search’ in Google will not see tuns of new things here. But, the way Google have put together ‘Search Options’ is good and makes the process a lot quicker. Also, the ‘wheel thing’ (can’t remember the exact name, looks like a kind of mind map to me) is great for keyword brain storming research.

For link building and keyword ideas it is a really cool tool that will help and save some time.

Take a look…

In my view Twitter is a pulse and nothing else. The beat can show that you/we are still alive, do stuff and connect us either passively or impassively. That is the attraction for us and the world that trys to sell us something.

Still don’t get it?

Well, laugh at this instead. As with most good comedy the hidden truth tells us something about us all.

Oh, for all you SEO fans out there, Twitter can be an information gold mine if you can cut through the rubbish.