You may have noticed when searching in Google recently, that listings with Google maps are appearing more and more, they are Google’s business listings which are a great way to get yourself into Google quickly. I have been listing tourism businesses and within 24hours they are getting a page one listing, normally in the top 5 listings.

I hear you ask how do you do this, its actually very simple.  Go to www.google.com/maps, click the link “Put your business on Google Maps”.   Follow the steps. Its really simple.  To ensure you are a legit business they will need to give you a pin number to confirm your listing, this can be given 3 ways – phone, text or postcard.  I would recommend the phone option as its the quickest - just make sure that you are available straight away to answer the phone (this would be the number you added to your business listing) to take down the 5 digit pin number.  One tip would be to try include a keyword in the business name e.g. SitesToGo would become SitesToGo website design

Happy listing.

I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, but no, they picked Web 2.0. 

The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin made it official on 10th June  at 10:22 am GMT.  Web 2.0 is a technical term meaning the next generation of World Wide Web products and services.   Isn’t it funny to think that its only the one millionth, I would have thought that this would have been exceeded a long time ago.

Without a great deal of fanfare Microsoft’s new search

engine came on-line this week. No doubt they spent a long time dreaming

up a name that would have the same quirk factor as ‘Google’.

In the end they came up with ‘Bing’ – which, although not completely awful, is

frankly a little bit awful!

In any case, bing seems to work quite well but I just can’t see any

reason why a Google user would want to switch.

Check out bing for yourself