Rob’s Blog

Right, I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (hence the downtime a few days ago, sorry about that). I’ve also added something to the comments bit. Its like a CAPTCHA, but it is there to aid converting old books onto computers. See, by posting comments you help the world
Anyway, I’m also going […]

As I type this, I just whacked “Never dig a wine cellar in a boat” into a search engine, just to see if anyone out there:

Lives in Cornwall
Has visited a small independent shop somewhere down there
Bought a bookmark/keyring/coaster
Bothered to type it on to the Internet
And got indexed by a search engine

Amazing, the number of people […]

I am presuming most people have noticed a steep rise in obscure advertising methods? No? Well that’s how bored I am For some reason eBay sent us a pack of postcards, bearing messages such as “Happy Birthday” and “Get Well Soon”. A nice gesture, something useful from a mind-bogglingly large multi-global-mega-corporation. Then I turned […]

I am sure that most of you are aware by now that I have aquired a taste for the more random things in life. For example, I recently added to by collection of Clive’s Cats stuff. Unless you live in Cornwall or Devon you will probably never have heard of them, but I encourage you […]

During May, these were the most popular search terms put into Google by people from the UK:

big brother
bbc news
amazon
autotrader
bbc sport
wikipedia
easyjet
bitesize
dictionary
lost
cbeebies
currency converter
national lottery
eastenders
arsenal

When you look at these results, they are quite shocking. 6 of those results are found on the BBC website, and a further 2 on the Channel 4 site. Almost half of the searches […]