Martina Hingis pic 

Martina Hingis pic

The oppressively hot and humid weather continues in the UK with rain overnight making things worse.

My lone tennis prediction of Nadal seeing off Federer in 4 sets was, as ever, correct. All the pundits went for Federer for reasons unbeknown to me. A 5:1 head to head lead, 2 to zero this year and 59 undefeated on clay all meant nothing to so called experts! Regrettably I did not put my money where my mouth was and did not put a bet on him.

As I continue to play about with one of my sites to gain benefit with google, it finally oversteps the mark with msn and number one and two rankings on multi million searches drop through the floor. It seems wrong that a naturally constructed site does well on msn and yahoo, but needs serious search engine optimisation in order to perform on google. The tragedy for msn and yahoo is that the jump in google rankings more than compensates for the loss on their searches in terms of real traffic. That said there is something seriously wrong for this to be necessary. I also see a site (that I compete with) using 22 000 purchased links, cloaking and other unscrupulous techniques ranking highly on google! All very disappointing.

Another pic of the lovely Martina