The domain ‘homeinsurance.biz’ is up for grabs on Sedo. A quick search with OpenSiteExplorer indicates that the domain doesn’t yet carry any weight in the search engines but as the sellers attest… There are 334,000,000 search results for “Home Insurance” on Yahoo.com There are 785,000,000 search results for “Home Insurance” on Google.com There are exactly 110,000 global…
Last week I spotted Google doing something a bit scary when searching for the phone dialling code for Ireland. They’ve been talking about it a long time but it looks like BB can finally read web pages. The search I performed was for ‘Ireland diailling code’, which translates to: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ireland+country+code And just look at what…
There are a number of reasons that tracking referrals to your website from third-party websites can be problematic if you attempt to do so with server-side code. This is a technical article intended for insurance software developers but the problem described affects all of us who work with affiliates and resellers and attempt to track…
Do you think that online insurance software is the best thing since sliced bread? Is it the right fit for the insurance industry? I would say so, but then I’ve always been a fan of web based, ever since Yahoo Mail (1998?). In any case the advantages are well known…
After many, many months of hard work, love, sweat, pain and great code(!), we’re pleased to unveil the new SchemeServe, version 4.4. There are over 100 new features and improvements to look forward to in this release, and a list of the main features is here. The most important new ones include: Split Risk Rating…
Something that has continually amazed me the past few years is the level of Technofear in the insurance industry, or, as I’ve decided to call it right now: “Ristechnophobia”. (Think it will catch on?). Edit: Thanks to Reinsurance Girl for the example above. It’s true that most of us who work in the insurance industry…
