Dizzy needs a rethink

By Tom Miller

Dizzy Thinks. Often. But not very thoroughly. Or fairly.

A quick paragraph to deal with Mr Big Celebrity’s attack on me this morning (could you get any more pompous?)… I suppose he reckons that everyone writing about new media should be a cabinet minister or a full-on basement dwelling techie?

The explicit point of my post was that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the difference between a site in development and one that is ready to go live. I’ll concede that the beta banner is still up, but before, you couldn’t even use the voting mechanisms. The faceless press man at CCHQ didn’t even notice that the beta banner was still up before the site was launched!

Now, on to something useful.

Dizzy reckons that our nameless tribute act’s site have somehow ouflanked us in one of his carefully selected Google searches. Side point, but I think he’s also a bit harsh, describing them as insignificant, and all.

Think about how specific that search is, how many words you have to run through Google (the international version, no less) to produce this result…

“Together we can make change happen – LabourSpace.com”

A bit complicated, that phrase. It works fine as a title for an article, but is a clumsy Google search.

Let’s try some others:

From Google UK:

“Together we can make change happen”

LabourList comes first and second. No mention of Labourist.

“Labourspace”

LabourList comes high. Can’t see Labourist anywhere.

“Ed Miliband”

LabourList is on page 4. Once again, Labourist is at the back of the queue.

“Squeezing the Lib Dems” and “Obama Breakfast” both provide top rankings for LabourList. Probably because they’re rather obvious searches that someone would actually look for, rather than contrived tracts that a Tory with a few spare seconds can crudely googlebomb.