Lately however I’ve been experimenting more with Bing and Yahoo. They seem to be the same. So much so that they have the same results for the search terms I’m using, in the same positions. Makes me wonder…

Anyway, on to my point. Bing, your search results are awful. I select ‘Results only from the UK’ and here’s a slice of what I get, for the search term ‘school signage‘:

• Position 10: they can’t even spell the word ‘signage’ properly (they spelt it ‘sinage’), yet you have them at position 10? They’re also position 21, apparently duplicating content, you allow that do you?
• Position 42: is a PDF file leading to an article. Surely when searching the web, I’m looking for websites?
• Position 63: Nothing to do with school signage.
• Position 72: Nothing to do with school signage.
• Position 82: Nothing to do with school signage. The title even says so!
• Position 95: Nothing to do with school signage.

Ok so this is the first 100 results out of 19,000. Admittedly no-one looks past the first three pages (if that!).

So my reasoning for this was because I was looking for the company I work for, GRS Sign Company, for their results under the same search term. Limiting this a little to ‘school signage lincolnshire‘, again on Bing, here goes:

• Position 12: Finally! We’re on there, but oddly not the GRS category for school signs, why is that Bing?
• Position 13: Lincolnshire tree services? Are you serious Bing? And again at position 20?
• Position 25, 26, 30: Council web pages?
• Position 29: A school?

Ok so why is this happening? Surely a simple search term like ‘school signage‘ should net me only those websites and webpages that deal with ‘school signage‘? Out of the 16,400 results above, the first 30 have at least 5 bogus (maybe bogus isn’t a good word, let’s say ‘inaccurate’) results…

I read that Bing (and Yahoo) both set their store by how many incoming links a website has, to grade and position them in results. How is that useful? That’s easily manipulatable by scammers, and companies as large as yours should know that. How easy would it be to create an innocent page on say, breakfast cereal, get hundreds if not thousands of incoming links, let it sit for a month or two, then swap the content out for mobile telephone offers, or worse, porn?

My family’s business chooses not to have outgoing and incoming links to competitors, or related businesses, because we want to stand alone on the product we produce. There is nothing wrong with that. Google seems to agree, our links are fairly high on their searches, but not on yours (and Yahoo’s).

Can someone please clarify a little? How can I structure the website to better gain rank on their search listings? It is well written HTML/CSS/PHP/JQuery, I try to follow all the rules, but because we don’t want to clutter our business pages with incoming links, we’re penalised?

That makes something like 5 times now in the space of a couple of years. No-one else who uses a bike at work gets them! WTF is with my bike? I need a super armoured tyre or something, or a kevlar lining to my current tyres.

E = mc²

As many documentaries tell us, as you approach the speed of light, you become heavier, until at the speed of light you are as heavy as the Universe. Thus, you cannot travel faster than light.

Except…

What about light itself? If this is the case, why aren’t photons unbelievably heavy?

The past few years have been an era of expanding hard drives (now you can get 3TB drives!), but the solid state drives, despite what we have heard, are going a bit slower. I mean, you can get a 1TB SSD but the price is a bit high (£1622).

I think I’ll wait.

Of course, I could wait for the flying cars they promised up forty years ago…

The first episode, ‘Did God Create the Universe’, right at the end you explain how time stopped (or ceased to exist) just before the Big Bang where all matter and energy was infinitesimally small. You said, you’ve found something that doesn’t have a cause because there was no time for that cause.

I realize you say this all from a personal perspective, mind you.

So my questions are these:

• What -did- cause the Big Bang?
• Where did the infinitesimally small point from which the Big Bang emanated, come from? What created it?

None of the evidence presented negates God. Only that it provides a scientific basis that God can be removed from. Not that I’m religious, I’m not.

What makes me write about this is because lately I’ve been having some strange sleep patterns. I wake up every 90 minutes, give or take a few minutes. The past few nights though, I know exactly what time it is.

Now I know you think yeah right, ‘exactly’.

But last night, I woke up at 1:30am, and I knew it was 1:30 on the dot, I checked on my phone and sure enough it was exactly 1:30. Then again at 3:05am, again at 4:35am and again at, strangely, 6:14am. Yes, 6:14am, I just thought to myself, “it’s a little bit before quarter past six”.

Although, yes, it’s interesting, how on earth do we do it?!

But, I honestly wish I could have an uninterrupted night of sleep!!

Shouldn’t we be shooting them? I mean, it’s our sovereign territory, and Iran has a duty to look after the people inside and to ensure that territory is kept that way, so why aren’t we defending it to the hilt?

Seems to me that we’re just letting Iran do what it wants. What kind of government do we have? If people here in the UK did that to embassies we would lose -all- credibility and honour, so why is it ok when two-bit regimes like Iran let it happen?

But what irritates me to no end is Yahoo and Bing. They don’t notice the site, or barely do so. One of the major pieces of advice especially for Bing is, add quality content, consistently. Interesting, given that GRS updates their site every week with new photos of their work, we write about the work, use keywords efficiently but not overly so. Yet, in search results in Bing, we’re never found. Odd don’t you think?

The same thing happens with Yahoo.

Now, one of the ‘advice’ sites I’ve read up on says that Yahoo and Bing like proper use of meta tags. Ok, interesting. So let’s search for ‘corporate signage’ on Bing and this site, www.modelsignage.co.uk, appears No. 1. Just take a look at the <head> section for that. The only meta tag is for http-equiv. The document is relatively old, written in html 4.01 Transitional and it’s table-based layout! Clearly Bing has put a cutting edge site right at the top of 11,500,000 results…

Given that our banks have had to bail out err, well nearly everyone, and we got screwed over just as badly if not worse than you, forgive us if we think we can offer a bit of financial advice to you. Don’t get caught up in your german love affair, we know how well that turned out the last time – rappelez-vous de Vichy?

At least, that’s what the movies portray. So the question remains, why? Why not hang the phone up? Their fingerprints would already be on it, assuming they’re not wearing gloves, so what’s the big deal about hanging the phone up?