Is it April 1st?
Check this out… BT Launch BT SearchSmart.
This is done with Latitude, here is the press release from them.
You’re kidding right?

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As a follow on from my last post, here is a link to Matt Cutt’s follow up on the somewhat strange and regionally challenged UK SERPs.
There is also a theory that this is a legacy thing from the Vince update. I am not so sure. I think Google just underestimated the difficulty in matching the [...]

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There has been lots of talk recently about the UK search results and how they have been starting to show more results from outside of the UK region. Well, here is a partial answer to this from Matt Cutts.

I think that Matt got the wrong end of this question and answered it in a different [...]

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I have not really posted on Bing, etc. There have been so many false dawns with Microsoft on the search front that I thought I would wait to see if this was just another re-brand with no substance.
More to come on this, but my three thoughts are:
1. Bing is actually quite a decent search engine [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posting recently. What with one thing or another, I just haven’t had the time to get some done. Maybe it is the temptation to just micro blog things now. Still, no excuses.
As you will have noticed I put up a box on the top right a while ago offering a [...]

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For all of you SEO people out there, whether you are in house or work for an agency, check out this Google blog post.
Personalised (or customised) search is not new and Google have been doing this for a while now. This development mixed in with their use of Universal Search in their results means that [...]

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As this is a ‘UK’ SEM site, I thought I had better start to look at the UK SEM scene in a little more depth. So here is the first of many posts that will look at the companies in the UK that provide search engine marketing services.
The SEM industry is not unique in that [...]

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