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Google’s UK results have been a bit bizarre for the last few weeks now, and it’s worrying to think that Google might actually be considering that they’re normal. I don’t mean the latest Vince update rolling out across the UK (although if you’re interested you might want to look at exploiting that brand update) - I mean the bizarre level of international domains appearing in Google UK. Google’s results right now look a mess. A clumsy, ham-fisted mess.

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In case you’ve missed it all, Matt Cutts told people at SMX Advanced, and later on his blog, that Google has changed the way they deal with nofollow, in such a way that it effectively prevents link sculpting using the attribute, and the change has been live for well over a year. If you’re an SEO, then it’s quite a big deal. Danny Sullivan has a great article up explaining it, as does Rand. Aaron Wall picked up on another point, which is - why didn’t anyone actually notice?

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I’ve been digging around a little bit with Bing and there’s a few things that are unusual. I’ve not looked into this too much exactly, but I’m seeing some strange results when you search for SEO companies in the UK.

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