Author Archives: Boris Jacquin
Online Car Reviews
Once in a while you stumble upon an unusual site and might think, “wow, this is genius”, or “how original, I didn’t know someone did that!”. That’s what recently happened to me when my wife, The Makeup Mole, showed me … Continue reading
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Adsense ban, or Google playing God. Again
I manage on a daily basis The Makeup Mole, my wife’s beauty makeup blog, which currently gets about 13,000 visits a month. Not a huge deal in itself but becoming quite authoritative in its niche since Christabel has worked with … Continue reading
Google Places is a sloppy student
So here I am trying to make Google Places understand that Wellington Point, Queensland, is in Australia while Google Search plays God again and releases a fancy algorithm improvement, cross-referencing listings with user’s blocked sites. The thing is, Google sometimes … Continue reading
Aggregators = spammers
Content aggregation – who, in their right mind, would bother building such site? Take this email we received today from beautynewsfeed.com. I can tell you that this website receives very, very little traffic from Google, despite all its apparent content. … Continue reading
Papa
Au revoir Papa, that was way too early. I hope you rest in peace.
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Search is going local
In my last post I stated that search was growing in the following directions: local, mobile, social and semantic. Today, when checking the ranking of my friends at Après Restaurant, a French restaurant in Sydney for which I did some … Continue reading
The Social Engine
The latest Bing-Facebook announcement by which your search results on Bing will take into account your Facebook friends’ likes and related favourite pages, and display socially-tailored results could be the light that will finally shine on Bing. The future of … Continue reading
Sometimes all one needs is a pizza
Here I am sitting by the pool, looking at Dunk Island and enjoying a warm breeze after a morning downpour. It’s beautiful. The rooms are large, the beds comfortable although the aircon is noisy at night, which disturbed my sleep … Continue reading
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The future us talking to you
OK – this 11 yr old boy is home-schooled, which somehow makes me think that he didn’t come up with his environmental theories completely on his own. But having myself a child whose maturity and abilities to reflect, analyse situations … Continue reading