Google is implementing a major update to its search engine, called Caffeine (love the name). The main change is that it will promote newer pages to the top of search results. How long since you updated your web site?

This is a much needed update as the content on the web is becoming older and in many cases search results are cluttered by content that is no longer relevant.

The easiest way to ensure your website is updated frequently is to use a Content Management System (CMS) such as Word Press, Joomla, Drupal or VPASP if you require e-commerce. For most websites we are promoting WordPress for its ease of use and extendibility. The easier it is to use the more likely you will use it.

You can read more about Google Caffeine on the Sydney Morning Herald website.

Well as my link to the old version of this has dropped off YouTube I guess it is time to link to the new version. Not quite as exciting as the old one in my opinion but still it has some interesting statistics on where technology is taking us.

Having helped customers publish e-books and self publish on Amazon, a big player like Google entering the market is very interesting. I wonder how it fits in with their business of putting books online for free if at all. With the might of Google behind it I will definitely be paying close attention.

Read more on The Sydney Morning Herald

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This Sydney Morning Herald article should be interesting to anyone that wants more traffic on their web site. If you need a hand taking up their advise let me know.

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Oh no it’s upgrade time again! Although I am still feeling sore about the bugs in Creative Suite 4 (CS4) I will probably be like a kid at Christmas waiting to get my hands on the new Creative Suite. At the very least it may fix some of the bugs. I’ll qualify my bitterness with CS4 that I am particularly frustrated by bugs with Flash on 64bit Vista – I have to run a second 32bit computer just for Flash. There were lots of good things about CS4 too, particularly the speed improvement of Photoshop so lets hope it’s all good for CS5.

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I had a little down time today thanks to some tree loppers taking out the broadband cables so went out to lunch. When I returned and opened the front door I put my bare foot down on something cold and scaly. I looked down to see a blue tongue lizard sitting on my doorstep.

I was a bit stumped about what to do as one of these took the end of a kids finger off a few years back (according to the news). I had only put my toes on him so it didn’t seem to have slowed him down. After a brief pause for us both to get over the shock he charged into one of my computers. I had left the case open due to a problem with the graphics card. He crawled into the hard drive bay and wouldn’t come out. My solution was to put the PC out in the garden and build a little brick cave for him to crawl into. It took him about 30 minutes to be coaxed out but eventually I recovered the PC.

I attended a Adobe Road show at Darling harbour this week and have to congratulate them on putting on a great show. The day kicked off with a You Tube video called Did You Know – a collection of facts about the internet which you can watch below. The show focused on highlighting the new creative and time saving features of CS4 which are too numerous to list. Having used Adobe CS4 since November 2008 I can confirm anyone not upgrading is wasting their time and possibly your money. The many small time saving features add up to big savings in productivity.