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Google Patents: Improved Duplicate File Detection

According to a patent that was filed last last month by Google, they are pursuing better duplicate (and near-duplicate) file ...

Google to Support Cyclone Victims

Google has put a link directly on their homepage to help gather donations to put towards the recovery efforts in ...

PageRank Update for April 2008

It's that time of year again, another PageRank update. Google started exporting their PageRank values to the public. So what ...

Google Respects Authority More Than Anything

This may be like beating a dead horse, but I feel it's a point that should be brought up again. It's ...

Earth Day 2008 at Google

Originally authored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? ...

Google Knows Best

Google appears to be as smart as we already think, if not smarter. Let's take a look at this specific search ...

Late April Fool’s Day Joke? Google to Crawl HTML Form Pages

When first reading the blog post published a few hours ago on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the first ...

Universal Google Search with Code Snippets

Google Labs is at it again, this time with Code Search being included in universal search results. As seen below, Google ...

New 404 Page for Google.com

The Google Web Server has updated its 404 returns now. Before, it would simply return with a "that page ...

Google Adds Second Search Box….But Why?

Google has added a second search input field to results. It doesn't appear for every search, but for some ...

Google Drops Some Universal Search Features

Last year, we discussed some Universal Search features such as license information, employee details, and overall keyword search details. Here are ...

Google Encourages Descriptive Anchor Text

Google Webmaster Tools are very useful and important to help determine how Google is indexing and seeing your website. ...

Outdated Google Patent Search

It's great that Google has highly customized and niche search fields such as Patent Search, Linux Search, Government Search, and ...

Google Patents: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data

A few days ago, Google was granted a patent (#7,346,839) that will allow the association of documents based on historical ...

Google Search Share Down in February

Google was not alone when they saw a drop in the number of web searches for February, "...the worldwide volume ...

SEO Tips: Optimizing Your Title Tags

I enjoy reading through and watching to see which keywords are referred to my site. I have noticed more ...

Google Celebrates Alexander Graham Bell

SEO Tips: Don’t Get Fresh With Me…Or Should You?

There are dozens of ways to optimize your site for search engines. Today, we are looking at the aspect ...

Yahoo Landing Pages for “Natural” Results

Yahoo! Search has some weird landing pages for their natural results. Let's take a look at the search query ...

Google Helps Refine Your Search

Google can help assist you with your search queries. Which keywords does this tool activate for? Who knows, certainly not ...

Google Love

Google shares some love with us on this very momentous lonely special day. Even better? Let's take a look at ...

Simply Put, Yahoo! Says “No” to Microsoft

Simply put, Yahoo! feels that Microsoft undervalues the worth of Yahoo! "After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft's ...

Google Provides Search for Nokia Mobile Users Worldwide

"...Nokia and Google today announced that Google's popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application." Just ...

More Google Backlinks, for Free!

Google's at it again with more of those lovely free backlinks we love. This one comes to us directly ...

Google Hosts Online Advertising Meetup

Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot ...

Dissatisfied? Help us improve.

Have you ever been disappointed by the search results in Google? Now you can help fix that to make ...

Google Celebrates the Lego Birthday

Today, Google is celebrating the birthday of the Lego. Here's a little history lesson for everyone. 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, master ...

Google Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Today, Google celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. day. I believe every public school has the day off and select ...

Google Seeks to Capture Mobile Market

Google released the iPhone interface for Google Apps products. "During Christmas (when nobody was at work!) iPhone browsing numbers ...

Google Toolbar PageRank Updates 2008

The "word" of PageRank certainly does spread like wildfire around here [in the Blogosphere]. First Barry, then Loren, all ...

Googlebot Expands to World Domindexing

Robots and how they read (or don't read) images has always been an issue. Google[bot] is finally starting the ...

Google’s Love-Hate Wikipedia Relationship

Google has shown over time, a lot of love to Wikipedia. Giving Wikipedia top SERP positions on just about ...

Eminem is the Real Slim Shady

Often times I will use Google Images search just for kicks and giggles on certain things I'm doing throughout the ...

ALT Tags Presentation by Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts put out a video about ALT tags in images. It's an elementary concept that he explains, but ...

The SEO Factor

Wow, an amazing write-up with some great industry-expert insights. Wiep wraps up just about every question we can think of for ...

Yahoo! Search Adds Support for X-Robots-Tag Directive

Yahoo! Search posted this on their blog yesterday. A small update to their robot controls to allow more extensive ...

Google AJAX Search API Supports 32 Results

Mark, from the AJAX Search API Blog, writes, Early this morning we turned on a highly requested feature... The AJAX Search ...

Google is Powerless

Errr well, it could be powerless. As I was going through my morning routine of checking Sphinn, checking Digg, going through ...

Search Tips 101: Results Prefetching

On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it. ...

Search Tips 101: How to use Filetype

Google has a ton of different operators available to use when you're searching. Today we are going to look ...

The Deeper Search Within Your Search

Something I had not noticed for a long time(?) is that there is a little "Search within results" link at ...

XML + XSLT = Good SEO? Let’s Find Out

Here is the thread that I created in the Google Group of Crawling and Indexing. I'm hoping Matt Cutts or Adam ...

[Myth Buster] Virtual Host vs. Dedicated IPs

There have been long debates about whether virtual hosts or dedicated IPs are the same, better, different, or whatever you ...

Underscores, Hyphens, and the Kitchen Sink

This has been a long and heated discussion and we hope it will come to an end sooner than later, ...

Why Yahoo! is Better Than Google [right now]

Google SiteLinks were announced just last month -- well, not really announced, but they were released. I think they're ...

Google Search Sucks

Well, at least their "related:" function sucks. This is a function that could actually be absolutely amazing and quite useful, but ...

Credit Cards, SEO, and Your Wallet

As SEO has become is a huge part of search engines and how results appear, watching trends is also just ...

I got a PR8 linkback for $20,000!!!

Well, honestly, I can get a PR8 linkback for $20,000. As I was browsing around the web early yesterday, ...

The Dwindling Google Index

Over the past few days, I've noticed that the Google search index has been dwindling down. For some particular ...

Google.cat

We can thank Phillipp for reporting this one. Google now owns Google.cat. Here is a little background on the extension. "On ...

Bring Out Your Dead…Bring Out Your Dead Links

Old school Link spamming building is dead. You can no longer simply put up completely irrelevant links and hope ...

According to Google, Porn is Family Friendly

As I was doing research for my next post, I was scanning some Google images for something creative and fund ...

Google Keyword Search Discontinued

This is a follow-up article directly related to The New Google Keyword Search I wrote back in March of this ...

Does Google Trust You?

Google [T]rust is a hot item recently. So the question begs itself, "Does Google trust you?" I certainly ...

Google Acquires G.cn

Google has acquired the shortest possible domain name, G.cn, which redirects to Google.cn. This is a huge time-saver for ...

Googlebot in the Penalty Box

Google is, well, as I said to a co-worker yesterday, Google is "out for blood." These Google penalties which ...

Google Abuses Nofollow

Back in 2005 when nofollow was introduced and widely adopted, we did not know the future effects it would have ...

PageRank Knock-out Round 1

As one of my co-workers was cruising around this morning, he realized that SERoundTable.com is now a PageRank4. As ...

Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft All Blocked in China

A thread on DigitalPoint pointed out today that Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft are all being blocked in China right now. ...

Spam Heard ‘Round the World

Something we have seen time and time again is spam on the Internet. I'm just getting sick of the ...

Google Claims Spam Links Can’t Hurt Your Rankings

As seen on SE Roundtable, Google has made claims that spam links won't hurt your rankings. ...I wouldn't really worry about ...

Google’s Ban on Web Directories

The recent buzz around the blogosphere seosphere has been about the recent "ban" on web directories. It has been ...

Google Webmaster Central Re-design

Google's Webmaster Central recently went through an overhaul in design. Many different aspects went into this update. New ...

Video: Are Paid Links Evil? SES Style

A little insight to the "Are Paid Links Evil?" session that is happening *right now*, yes, I'm attending it right ...

Can Googlebot See You? Let’s Find Out

Making sure that Googlebot can see all your pages or rather only being able to see the pages you want ...

What Will Happen to PageRank

PageRank™ is part of how Google figures out what to show you in the results pages after submitting a search ...

Google Sitemaps to show How Many URLs Submitted

It seems that the Webmaster team either slipped in this update or I just haven't noticed it. Webmasters can ...

Google Seeks to Improve Security

As a never-ending problem for everyone, security is a huge issue. I have my security issues with where I ...

Search Results with Fake IDs

Seems that Google's search methods that were implemented recently to be able to define a specific age of an article ...

Google Announces New Real Estate

This was already in the works back in October 2006, but Google has officially announced that they are moving into ...

Google to take on Monster.com in the Job Search Industry

Google is slowly but surely taking the steps to integrate Google Base into Google Search as a means to filter ...

Top 10 Link Building Tools for SEO

A compiled list of top10 SEO tools you should be using. Page Strength Google Webmaster Central (monitoring the actual incoming anchor texts: ...

The New Google Keyword Search

Google has released some updates to their primary search engine. The general functionality has been active for quite some ...

Showing Some Googlebot Love

Last July I wrote about how I noticed that Google's crawl rates dramatically dropped off one of my sites. ...

Wikipedia Love from Google

Google, sending almost 50% of all referral traffic to Wikipedia, sure does like Wikipedia. Why? It's a trusted ...

SEO Tips: Getting Your Site in the DMOZ

Almost everyone knows about the DMOZ Open Directory, but if you don't, go take a look right now. So ...

Google Gets a Little Too Personal

Yesterday, Google released some news that they are going to be forcing personalized search to all users that are logged ...

Yahoo! is Weak

Yahoo! seems to be a little behind on the times for search and advertising, but wait, they're trying to get ...

The Effect of Personal Results

A large majority of Google users are opted in for the Personalized Search (Beta) program right now. But what ...

SEO Tips: Communicate with the Blogsphere

As I'm looking at some of the traffic data for this site, ginside.com, I saw some keyword searches for "google ...

GPL, GNU, Proprietary, Google’s Got it

Google has a very interesting search feature built in. You can search for any software item and add the ...

SEO Tips: Display Your TextLinkAds.com Inventory

This SEO tip is geared more towards publishers of TextLinkAds.com (aff). I'm a publisher along with thousands of other people for ...

Map Your Search

Google Maps has been integrated into Google search without a hitch and now operates just as it should. If ...

Time to Google Friendster

Google is becoming the unchallenged leading providing in content ads on the web. With Google's not too long ago ...

SEO Tips: Drive More Traffic

Some sites do this on a regular basis and other sites don't really care. But do you care about ...

SEO Tips: Enforcing WWW

Something that I've been using for almost a year now is something very simple yet very effective. Enforcing the ...

Driving Traffic to Your Maps Using a Sitemap

Google is highly recommending that if you want your Maps API pages to be included into the index for search ...

PageRank Update 01/09/2007

Weird Search Results

I was doing some testing to see if bookmarks actually were indexed or not and I came across this weird ...

Google 2006

2006 is probably the best year for Google yet. A lot...and I say that in an understated way...of things ...

Image Search Tips by Vanessa Fox

Don't put the bulk of your text in images. It may sound simple, but the best thing you can do ...

AOL’s Top Searches for 2006

AOL released their top search data for 2006, here are some of the results. Overall Search Weather Dictionary Dogs 'American Idol' Maps Cars Games Tattoo Horoshopes Lyrics Video Search iPod 50 Cent BMW Jessica Simpson Cars Movies Ashlee Simpson Paris ...

Google Patent Search Recently Launched

A new service by Google was recently launched. Google Patent Search is the new brand of search being offered ...

Increase Search Results by De-indexing Other Pages

This is an interesting topic. A company had a problem with their search results because blogs were ranking higher ...

Google Playing Favorites

Phillip brought up a good point recenlty. Why is Google playing favorites with some sites? As part of the Google's ...

Google Just Does it Better

Some people may Google to locate lost loves, or check out potential new ones. The state department resorts to the ...

Happy Birthday Edvard Munch

Google News with Google Web Results

Here's a good catch. If you enter a date (such as below) of years, such as 1999-2003, it will ...

Dropping Crawl Rates

As I was looking through my sitemaps profile this morning, I checked out one of my domains and noticed something ...

Read it on Your Homepage

The Google Reader team has released a nice widget so you can add your Reader feeds to your personalized homepage ...

Google Wants Another Part of the Mobile Industry

Yesterday, Google signed an agreement with Bharti Airtel. As part of the agreement, Airtel will bring Google search to the Airtel ...

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

But to our surprise, Google delights us. [end song] Google delights us with our very own weather forecasting. Take a ...

Phishing for Google

Google has a well known product called Google Enterprise Appliance which lets you run "Google" yourself -- for your own ...

Notify Google

I was browsing around a bit just now on Google Images doing a search for the topic I'm researching and ...

One big happy family: Y!, MSN, G

Pointed out on a DigitalPoint thread, Yahoo! is marketing Internet Explorer 7.0, a recent stable release of the Windows operating ...

Sitemaps become universal

Google independently created sitemaps.org in an effort to universalize the sitemap usage among search engines. MSN and Yahoo! have ...

Google API Madness

Google has an amazing network of products. Products including AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, Webmaster Central, Google Maps, Google Images, Google ...

Doctors use Google, so should you

Two Australian doctors have found that entering the symptoms of a tricky case into the internet search engine often results ...

Google Speaks Up Against Australia’s Senate

The warning came in a submission to Australia's senate on legislation Google said could open the way for copyright owners ...

Analytics and AdSense Suggestions

As I'm re-reading over the forum discussion so far, there have been some great suggestions. Here's a few to ...

SEO Tips: Image Naming

Every so often I'm going to have an article with SEO tips straight me, Jonathan. This is the first ...

Webmaster Central Has Some New Tools

There are some sweet new tools in the webmaster overview area. Specifically in the sitemaps department. Some of ...

Popular Typos by Yahoo!

Yahoo! released a list of mis-spelled words: Rachel Ray Tatoos Scarlett Johanson Wierd Al Yankovic Evanesence Soduku Barbara Streisand Louis Vitton Jamie Presley Jimmy Buffet Brittany Spears Brittney Spears Anna Nichole Smith Eva Mendez Jessica ...

Vista Takes a Hit — Google as Default

There have been a couple release candidates of Windows Vista already. Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) comes default with it, ...

Google’s Free Music Distribution

Coming from Marc and Angel via Lifehacker, this is a great tool for getting some free, just do a search ...

Google, The Search for Source Code

Google will launch a search engine for source code tonight, but journalists informed of the launch agreed to a press ...

Adam Lasnik On Outbound Linking

It's unlikely that your outbound linking is causing your pages to be listed in the supplemental, rather than main index. Also, ...

Query Stats to Update Every Monday

Vanessa Fox writes about how the Google Webmaster Central hotspot will update sitemap stats every Monday now (instead of it ...

PageRank Update 09/29/06

Today, Google's team has released another update to the public PageRank for sites across the Internet. I have seen ...

Google Likes Google

As I'm viewing my my webstats of which search engines are giving me hits, I notice one thing: Google ...

Best Practices for URL Structure

SEOmoz has some great tips for URL structures and the best practices. Describe ...

Happy Happy Birthday! ~~ Google Style!

That's right. Google is 8 years old today. Google has, single handedly, changed the way we browse the ...

The Miserable Failure

From what appears to be a normal search, it most definitely is not. I've seen this search a dozen ...

Time to Wave Goodbye to Froogle

The link to Froogle disappeared not too long ago from the Google homepage. This was a pre-emptive move for ...

Synergy Between Natural Search and Base Search

There is a synergy being generated between organic search results and base search results, just in time for the holidays. ...

AOL’s New Search Powered By Google

For all the reports that have been going around that AOL has been developing their own search engine, well, they ...

Vanessa Fox & Amanda Camp Interview

Seattle24x7.com has a great interview with Amanda Camp and Vanessa Fox, two great contacts that work under the Google Webmaster ...

Google Acquires Transformic Inc.

As William points out, Google has quietly acquired Transformic Inc. Earlier this year, it purchased the rights to a new way ...

Fix the Google Homepage Tab Limit

If you're using the Google Personalized Homepage ( www.google.com/ig ), you may know there is a 6 tab limit. ...

Google Syndicated Search

Google registered a few domains on Friday. google-syndicated-search.com/net/org google-syndicatedsearch.com/net/org googlesindicatedsearch.com/net/org googlesyndicated-search.com/net/org googlesyndicatedsearch.com/net/org googlesyndicatesearch.com/net/org syndicatedgooglesearch.com/net/org syndicatedsearchgoogle.com/net/org wwwgooglesyndicatedsearch.com/net/org wwwsyndicatedsearchgoogle.com/net/org ZDnet To say the least, looks like there will be a new product being released ...

Enterprise: Search Made Easier

Xythos Software created a module for the Enterprise Search Appliance which Google offers. On October 15th October 18th, Xythos ...

The Belgian Courts Give Google The Birdie

The Belgian courts have come to a verdict that Google is to remove all articles, photographs, and basically anything representing ...

Text Links Bad … Advertising Good!

Adam Lasnik has his 2 cents on this matter at WMW... A clarification haiku: Advertising's fine Buying links for PR: bad Google senses much ...

GoogleBot With a 304 Response

V7n had some decent insights, but what it comes down to is that GoogleBot will not....well, here's a quote from ...

Some New Webmaster Tools Added

Looks like the sitemaps portion of the now claimed webmaster tools, had some new additions. Download the Data This tool basically just ...

Google Treating www and non-www the Same Now

Christian talks about how Google is now treating www and non-www domains the same with how they relate to the ...

New Search Dropdown

I just noticed this, but I'm not exactly sure what it's for yet....anyone else have some thoughts?

Talking to Googlebot

Vanessa brings up some good points over at the Webmaster Central blog: If my site is down for maintenance, how can ...

The Google Trust

Enterprisemarketing brings up some good points about whether or not Google actually "trusts" you. There is a "trust" in ...

Have You Been to the Movies Lately? Check Out the Times

Google has their own movie listing service now. All you need to do is enter movie name and the ...

Google Plans a New Server Farm in India

This past March, Google attempted to develop a new server farm in India, but for various reasons had to close ...

Personalized Trends Brought to You By Search History (Beta)

As I was browsing around just checking things out today in my Google Account, I stumbled upon this little tidbit ...

Selecting Your Preferred Domain: www vs. non-www

Google Webmaster Tools (formerly Sitemaps) is now offering an additional tool which will tell Google what your preferred domain name ...

Google Sitemaps Renamed to Google Webmaster Tools

Google Sitemaps has officially changed their name to Google Webmaster Tools in an effort to better communicate what the tool ...

Sitemaps Forces Verification

Google Sitemaps is slowly going to making the rounds to all sites listed in Sitemaps and making sure they are ...

Goggle.com … Some Interesting Results

I was reading up on an article about goggle.com and I decided to do some digging. First off, ...

Google Sitemaps Facelifted

Google Sitemaps has been an incredible tool for webmasters and I thoroughly enjoy the feature available to us. Today ...

Will You Be at SES Next Week?

The Google Blog has a little write-up about what's going on next week... Monday, Aug 7th 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch with the ...

Yahoo Users Need Therapy

A funny link was brought up today at DigitalPoint that I found amusing. http://www.google.com/se...le+Search Inferring that...Yahoo! users need therapy? ...

Google Accessibility Search — Making Life Simple

As I was going over the GoogleBlog over at blogspot, this article caught my eye. A new search that ...

07/13/2006 — Another Bites the Rank

PageRank Explained PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator ...

Struggling to Fight Off KinderStart.com

As many know, KinderStart.com sued Google quite a while back over having their website PageRank set to "zero". This ...