"Government departments spend £6m on search engines" - BBC

[MOH]

BBC News - Government departments spend £6m on search engines

Organisations can pay search engines to ensure their websites appear at the top of users' searches.

That's a bit misleading - even with paid ads, you can't "ensure" you'll be at the top.

Lols though at:

"But in general I don't see why government departments should spend large sums improving their showing on search engines.
"I would have thought the search engines themselves should ensure official information is easy to find."

 

[louie]

I bet you the SEO guy is one of the big names kid or relation of some sort...

 

[mneylon]

I wonder how much our glorious leaders have spent .. ..

 

[louie]

Probably more because they had to use a helicopter or plain to get on the "first page" at Google headquarters...

 

[Styla]

If they pay me half I would bring them to top