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Graphical tool to analyse “Google Suggest” feature

March 5th, 2010 admin

You’ve probably seen the google suggest before – where it suggests what other people are searching for as you start typing your search query?

Well Simon Elvery (@drzax) has developed a tool based on Word Trees to graphically display the results of Google Suggest.   By giving a seed word you can then see the popular keywords which would follow.

I can certainly see this being useful for SEO Keyword research.

Unable to change the time on a HyperV VM? – FIXED

March 5th, 2010 admin

Just had a problem where two domain controllers (2008) were out of sync by about 20 min.   No problem – just change the time on the one that’s out (just happens to be a VM)?   Well as soon as I changed the time – it reverted back to the wrong time??

Ran “w32tm /query /source” to find out where it was syncing to and it came back with :

VM IC Time Synchronization Provider

Aha!  VM!   So I took a look at the Hyper V host and sure enough – it was showing the wrong time!   So fix the host and you fix all the clients….