CGDesigns Inc. St. Lucia Web Design and Development.

If you haven’t already heard about it, here it is: Google and Bing are at it again. Google claims Bing has been stealing there top ranking results and showcasing them on Bing. In order to confirm this Google setup a bit of code to manipulate specific dead keywords to rank specific domains for these keywords. Two things to consider here -

1. Google cheated there own system to make these dead keywords rank well in order to manipulate Bing and..
2. Google manipulated there own system to make something rank well in there own system.

What this means is Google has the ability to cheat there own system, something they said they could not and would not do.. Bing in return said that they did not take info from Google and they do not do this as a practice. Sad to say that Google has proven otherwise. Scary to think that if Google is potentially doing a bad job at search results that in turn Bing will follow suit by coping. They don’t always provide the best results as much as they would like. But competition is a good thing in my opinion so I would like them to actually compete with each other and provide us in return a service that we can be happy with.. let us not forget that both these giants are making a very good return on us using there engines.

It is said that much of this stems from Spam, not the usual spam we all see in out emails but Spam sites, sites that have little to say and much to advertise. This is part of the debate – when you search for something in Google much of the results you get are sites that have little to do with what you searched for but have somehow manipulated Google to get ranked well for these keywords. The reason people say this is is because Google makes major profit from this and limits them from removing this kind of thing within their search engine. Now if that is the case why on earth would another search engine use these results if that were the case? A new player in the game (Blekko) has said that they intend to remove Link Farms entirely from their search engine. A bold move indeed, enough to not only get them into the news but enough to get them in a joined debate with the big boys (see debate). I like the direction Blekko is taking, although small compared to the other big boys they are making a GREAT start and doing a bang-up job so far. If you are unhappy with Google and Bing (Yahoo) and many of the rest then give them a try. They use something new to search called slashtags:

“Slashtags are a community-created convention to mark additional metadata of a tweet. They are like hashtags but typically target or indicate other people as the subject of a short word.”

A warning to all – as I have been writing the post I have found that it has somewhat turned into a bit of a rav… :  )

Web design in St Lucia (Caribbean) seems to be a growing field at the moment. A large number of web designers seem to be popping up out of the blue, as skill sets grow and the market expands more and more kids are trying to get into the field.

Now considering the island only has approximately 160,000 people and only a limited number of these have full (daily) access to the internet, it is a wonder that we are doing so well on the web design front. And I have to say, some of the talent out there is quite amazing. I myself have been in the industry for about 10 years and web design has changes A LOT over that time. With new technologies being developed on a day by day basis it is hard to keep on top of it all. But we have to in order to continue providing our clients with the best possible web designs to suit the latest technologies out there. Continue reading…