Life's hectic all of a sudden. I'm only just getting over the jetlag from San Diego, and then next week I have to dash off to Barcelona for another job. Not that I'm complaining about the travel, I've never been to the West coast, or Spain before, so it's all new to me. But it is tiring, and it's looking like my blog is the first thing to get left behind (um, along with laundry, washing up, and eating non-frozen foods). Nevertheless, I'll try and post the best I can...

One element of the hecticness comes from the sudden turnaround of Google - the Jagger update severely dropped Trips Europe in the ratings, and the number of people looking to stay with us dropped along with it. Things got a bit bleak just before Christmas :-(

However, there's been another huge update, this time called BigDaddy, and we're now back, and higher than ever! Do a search for "rental in Paris" on Google, and there we are, numero uno!!!! (update: Well, sometimes - I just tried again and we're sixth. A few refreshes later, back at top - the update is probably still ongoing...)

The upturn in business is incredible, which is great but also worrying - it seems we really depend on just one search engine, and we're at the mercy of their whims. Obviously we promote our site as best as possible, but there's no way you can safely predict the company's growth for the next year when at any moment Google can dash it to pieces... I use Google a lot myself (and as a discerning geek, it's because they are the best), but their dominance is starting to look a bit scary.