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What Google Knows About Spam
12 May 2008 at 6:14amIf you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I almost always make a custom [...]
Custom Search Engine adds new features
7 May 2008 at 6:21amGoogle Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine. Now let me nip one idea in the bud, because I can already feel a few people thinking [...]
Review: Google Apps Hacks
1 May 2008 at 7:50amLast week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth, where it was nice to see Jeremy Zawodny and catch up a little bit. After a [...]
Google Hacks: Pacman graph with Google Charts
25 Apr 2008 at 5:14amThis link was cool, but it generates a graph like this: With a little modification, I made this graph: I like my picture a little better. It was quite simple to make this diagram, and Google provides a free graph-drawing tool that you can use on your own site with a single url — no account or [...]
Nice ?News quote? feature
18 Apr 2008 at 9:08pmGoogle just announced a cool addition to Google News. If you search for a person’s name on Google News, you can see statements where that person has been quoted by a news source. For example, search on Google News for [Arnold Schwarzenegger] and you’ll see It’s like how smart the feature is. It can correctly [...]
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YouTube ads for viral videos: 'buzz targeting'
14 May 2008 at 12:13amGoogle is starting to share more details about its high priority of making more money off YouTube's popularity, introducing an advertising product on Tuesday called buzz targeting.
The ad product uses an algorithm to find videos that are about to "go viral," when word of mouth (or IM, or ...
GIS exec works to unlock hidden geo data
13 May 2008 at 11:20pmBURLINGAME, Calif.--Geography buffs tantalized by the quantity of geographic information hidden away among countless municipal computer systems have something to cheer about.
Combining Portland, Ore., geographic data and Google Earth can help show how long it takes to drive from a given point. Blue areas can be reached in
...A reminder of why Microsoft wanted Yahoo
13 May 2008 at 10:04pmSo why did Microsoft try so hard to buy Yahoo? Simply put, Google is Microsoft's nightmare come true, and the Windows maker needed Yahoo to better compete with that growing search beast in Silicon Valley.
Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider has posted Tuesday a good look at how ...
Google opens geographic search interface
13 May 2008 at 9:23pm
John Hanke, head of Google Maps and Google Earth, speaks at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, Calif.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET Networks)BURLINGAME, Calif.--Google added a new element to its search interface that will let others' Web sites use geographically linked information.
The company has opened up ...
Google begins blurring faces in Street View
13 May 2008 at 6:01pm
Google Street View now blurs some faces in Manhattan.
(Credit: Google)BURLINGAME, Calif.--Google has begun testing face-blurring technology for its Street View service, responding to privacy concerns from the search giant's all-seeing digital camera eye.
The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for ...
Friend Connect gets a warm reception at Google Campfire One
13 May 2008 at 8:26am
Google engineering director David Glazer, right, talks to Matt Waddell at the Campfire One event at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Behind him is the skull of a T. Rex skeleton.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET Networks)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Maybe it was because Google preaching to the social-networking choir, ...
Is Google trying solid-state disks?
12 May 2008 at 4:53pmSolid-state disks, which use flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters to store data, may have just won an endorsement from a demanding, high-prestige customer: Google.
According to a Monday report in DigiTimes, Google is using Intel SSD technology combined with Marvell controller chips in servers at the company's ...
Google offers YouTube video software for Macs
12 May 2008 at 3:53pm
Google's Vidnik lets users take videos, trim them, and upload them to YouTube.
(Credit: Google)Google has released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a Webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to ...
Flaw turns Gmail into spamming machine
11 May 2008 at 6:35pmA "serious security flaw" in Gmail turns Google's e-mail service into a spamming machine, according to a recent security report.
INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has created a proof of concept that exploits the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. By exploiting a flaw in the
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YouTube ads for viral videos: 'buzz targeting'
14 May 2008 at 12:13amGoogle has added a new option called buzz targeting to its attempts to convert YouTube's popularity into actual revenue.
A reminder of why Microsoft wanted Yahoo
13 May 2008 at 10:04pmThe mega-merger plan may have gone away, but the threat from Google it was supposed to address hasn't.
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Google's -60 penalty and how to avoid it
13 May 2008 at 3:36pmDuring the last weeks, people in online forums observed some strange Google result changes. Rumor has it that there is a new -60 penalty. Which websites are penalized? How can you avoid getting penalized?
How much is a Google top ranking worth?
6 May 2008 at 3:36pmHigh rankings on Google can make the difference between an extremely successful online business and a total failure. The position of your website in Google's search results can make or break your business. But how much exactly is a top ranking on Google worth? What can a top ranking on Google do for your business?
A major Google algorithm update might be on the way
8 Apr 2008 at 3:36pmWebmasters in a discussion forum have noticed changes in Google's search results. Do we have to expect a larger ranking algorithm update? How will this influence the ranking of your web pages in Google's search results?
Does your website look like spam to search engines?
25 Mar 2008 at 2:36pmIs your website nowhere to be seen in Google? It might be that Google doesn't like your website because it looks like spam. Check this list to find out whether your website might look like spam or not.
How to get Google Sitelinks for your website
11 Mar 2008 at 2:36pmMany webmasters wonder how they can make Google display additional Sitelinks for their websites. What exactly are Sitelinks, how can you get them and are they worth the effort?
Google's new method to detect duplicate content
4 Mar 2008 at 2:36pmGoogle's new patent application on near duplicate content describes a new method how Google tries to keep its users from finding redundant content in the result pages. How does this affect your web pages?
Get top 10 rankings on Google with IBP 10
19 Feb 2008 at 2:36pmWe released the brand new version of our popular SEO software tool IBP. The new version IBP 10 has everything that you need to get top 10 rankings on Google, Yahoo and other search engines.
Google backs out of the position 6 penalty
5 Feb 2008 at 2:36pmThree weeks ago, we informed you about Google's new position 6 penalty. At this time, it was unclear why Google assigned this penalty to some websites. It seems that Google doesn't use this penalty anymore. Why did this happen?
Google's new position 6 penalty
15 Jan 2008 at 2:36pmA discussion in an online webmaster forum indicates that Google might have invented a new ranking penalty for websites that rank well for popular search terms. Is your website affected by this penalty?
Hot or not? Does Google really use a new ranking algorithm?
8 Jan 2008 at 2:36pmWebmasters recently found an anomaly in Google's ranking results. Has Google changed its algorithm to artificially increase the ranking of new pages? This article has the details.
All important articles of 2007
1 Jan 2008 at 2:36pmWe published many articles in 2007 that will help you to get more out of your website. The categorized articles in this issue help you to increase the rankings on your website on Google and other major search engines.
How Google creates the description of your website for the result page
18 Dec 2007 at 2:36pmHaving high rankings on search engines is a great thing. However, it's also important that your web pages are displayed with an attractive description in the search results. If the description is not appealing to web surfers then they might not click the link.
Google, Yahoo, the X-Robots directive and your website rankings
11 Dec 2007 at 2:36pmLast week, Yahoo announced that they now support the X-Robots-Tag in the HTTP header. This new tag allows you to influence how Google and Yahoo index your website pages. Has it an effect on your search engine rankings?
Google warns against cloaking: we can detect it
4 Dec 2007 at 2:36pmIn a recent blog post, Google's anti-spam engineer Matt Cutts wrote about cloaking. The blog post makes several things clear. You put your website at risk if you use cloaking.
New robots.txt commands: make sure that Google can index your site
27 Nov 2007 at 2:36pmIt seems that Google is currently experimenting with new robots.txt commands. If your robots.txt file accidentally contains one of the new commands, it might be that your robots.txt file tells Google to go away.