A Google Search Achievement for BlogfromItaly.com in 2010

Brain Power in Italy

I guess this is an achievement even if to all intents and purposes this little site should not really have been able to do it, after all there are professional blogs run by teams of people in Italy who should be able to beat little old me.What am I on about? Ranking! In the world wide web world … [Read more...]

Google News Under Attack in Italy

Google News Italy

Italy's antitrust authority is investigating Google to ascertain whether it has abused its dominant position in Italy.According to the Federation of Italian Publishers, Google's supposed abuse is that it "impedes publishers from freely choosing how news content published on their websites is … [Read more...]

Has Google Italy been Got At?

What an interesting question. I mean, would it be possible for someone working within Google Italy to manipulate the Googleplex's search engine systems to the extent that the ranking of certain sites could be manipulated?As I understand it, Google's systems are based on cold and complex … [Read more...]

Can anybody tell me what these are?

Odd symbols

I've been seeing these odd symbols on quite a few websites recently, and even within Google search results. I don't know what they are, or why they are there?Anyone care to enlighten me?Here's a picture of these mysterious critters: … [Read more...]

Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?

Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy's top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and … [Read more...]