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Gift Stores

We have been attending the Reed Gift Fairs in Sydney for a few years and find it amazing that these exhibits are way larger than just about any other industry here. Way larger than Cebit or anything electronics related.

We have a Cafepress Gift Store and you might find something interesting there.

Car Caricatures, Logos and Cartoons

We have been doing this type of commercial illustration for over 20 years. Been on the Internet since 1995 and it is recently a shame that the Car Caricatures, Logos and Cartoons page isn't coming up in google searches like it was. It is great that we have some customers that keep coming back because they like what we do, and they don't need to find us!

"hot rod caricatures logos" search

Bing v Yahoo v Google.

Google is fighting SEO campaigns, spammers and scrappers. To counter it they are trying to work out what sites are "poor quality", and it isn't working, at least for the last 8 months...

Try the search "hot rod caricatures logos" in the image search of Bing, Yahoo and compare the results to that in Google. Bing and Yahoo give better results. Most people still use Google, myself included, but for the tests that I know what the answers should be, Google is broken. It isn't smart enough to have the context for keywords right..... it really is nothing to do with the leader of North Korea, or Oakland Raiders caps!!!

If Google does show something of ours, it is not from the original site, www.artandtechnology.com.au, but from a forum or scrapper site. That just isn't right. Not right at all.

Who Broke Google?

This is the last 12 months of our website bandwidth. It had been steadily growing for 5 years, then google changed something, such that in August, we now cyclically drop out of the first few top search results.

Makes a huge difference. It isn't just me either, but many illustrators. The Google webmaster forum is full of cases, and after posting about it several times with our findings, haven't had any positive results yet.

Basically Google broke the search for many things, especially image searches. I assume it was trying to stop the sites that just contain links to other sites and contribute nothing, but it is more than that. When searching for any of our illustrations around August, you would find our images on a few such sites, and not the original source. They seem to have fixed that, but broke it in a different way.

A two word search can significantly reduce the significance of one of the search terms. Can only assume this has significantly reduced the usefulness of Google for searching for everyone, but unless you actually test this, you wouldn't notice.

It would seem "All good things...."