Google News, Inside.

How Fast is Your Site? It Will Soon Matter.

During Pubcon Vegas, Matt Cutts hinted at a potential new algorhiym factor for 2010. Site speed.
For sites that already do this, such as this one, there’s nothing to worry about. But for those sites that taken 30 seconds+ to load, you really need to begin considering caching and other like functionality to speed [...]

Using Trends to Predict the Economy

Google is a powerful company, there’s no doubt about that. Google has access to some of the most valuable data in the world because of search tracking. It’s able to use search data to show trending of what’s being searched and therefore, can predict events like Black Friday.

It’s truly incredible to see what [...]

Google Music Search

Google is announcing Google Music Search, what has long been rumored and what most everyone can see as a straight forward move into the music biz. Without a doubt, lyrics is by far one of the most searched terms on the web.
Google is partnering with companies like MySpace, Rhapsody, iMeem, and LaLa, to provide [...]

History of the Bar Code

Google is celebrating the history of the bar code today.

Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia about the history of the bar code.
In 1948 Bernard Silver (1924–62), a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically read [...]

Porn Now Part of Universal Search

Universal search is a great part of Google. It gives users depth when they are searching, providing results for latest news items, image results, video results, and of course, the basic web results.
Up until today, I had seen everything was clear of porn…but it seems that has changed.
Looking at the screenshot below, you can [...]

How Does REL=Canonical Actually Work?

Googler Greg Grothaus gave spoke at SES San Jose last month and did a follow-up post to the Google Webmaster Central blog with similar content.
Here are some great tips for understanding how rel=”canonical” actually works.
rel=canonical
Questions and Answers
Q: Does this work across hosts (aka: subdomains)?
A: Yes. So zeta.zappos.com could suggest www.zappos.com as a canonical url
Q: [...]

Google Adds Jump To Links Within Results

Here’s something new that I haven’t seen before. After doing a search, I saw there was a link within the description of the result. Digging deeper into the result, I can see that it’s part of the navigation on the result page itself.

This is going to yet again, change how people build pages [...]

Google Is Smarter Than You Think

Google is getting smarter and smarter, everyday. Faster than you may realize.
Let’s look at this example to see how Google was able to translate what I wanted and what it was able to provide me.
I did a search for “mytunes for mac” expecting to find some sort of app to let me steal borrow [...]

All Your O Belong to Us

Yesterday was a weird day for consumers of Google. Typically, when there is a custom Google logo, it’s for a birthday or a special event. But this time, it’s left everyone confused and weary of why Google would do such a thing.

When clicking into the page that Google led users to, the first [...]

[video] Are Different Types of Sites Treated Differently?

The question at hand is whether blogs vs. e-commerce sites are treated differently.
Here’s Matt Cutts on the lowdown of how Google treats different types of sites.
PS, I’m posting this from 30,000 feet in the air courtesy of Delta Airlines :)

Links in the Footer May be Treated Differently

Matt Cutts recently published this video talking about how links in the footer may be treated differently than links in-paragraph.

Google Thinks Twitter Is…

So…Google thinks Twitter is…retarded? over capacity? down? useless? lame? pointless? slow? a waste of time?

What do you think Twitter is?

Google.VC Owned by Google Now

I reported a little over a year ago that google.vc was not owned by Google, and how surprised I was that Google would let something like that slip through the cracks.
Somewhere in the past 12 months, Google took over the domain and now it’s an official Google domain.

Google Changes Its Logo Size

Today, right before my eyes, literally, the Google logo size changed and they added more space for search results on the sides. Phillip reported on this a day or two ago, but it seemed like the change was only for him. I tested in IE, logged in, logged out, Opera, Safari, any browser [...]

More Google Spam

Spam in the Google index is a constant battle that Google is fighting. It is such a huge problem, that they have an entire team dedicated to just dealing with spam.
Google does a great job of fighting spam, but alas, they’re still not perfect — nor will they ever be, sadly.
Here’s some of the [...]

How Fresh is Your Content?

Matt Cutts in the video below, describes how Google [and googlebot] determines freshness of content.
As a short recap of the video, dates on-page and in the URL are not indicators to googlebot of how fresh your content is, but rather it’s based on both the first time that googlebot visits your page and how often [...]

Google Squared: New UI. New Success?

Google Squared was announced today. Note, it’s only the announcement, not the launch.
So what is Google Squared? It’s a different approach to how you search and use Google.
Google is adding “search options” to how you search. Once launched, Google’s new interface will use sentiment data to help you find what you’re looking [...]

Google Celebrates Mother’s Day 2009

I have to throw out a huge shout-out to my mother and wish her a happy mother’s day. I don’t think she reads my blog, but I know my sister does — and a huge shout-out to her as well, her name is Jennifer.
And to all the other mothers out there, a very warm [...]

Have You Searched Yourself?

Google is offering a new feature for its search platform. The feature to have your profile highlighted is now part of Google search.

Head to http://www.google.com/profiles to edit your profile and get it ranked for your name.
I think there’s a huge opportunity for SEO to get high rankings and drive traffic to your profile, then [...]

Google Search Is Still Not Perfect

As Brent pointed out, Google is still having duplicate content problems. Today’s case is the BBC. The BBC (news.bbc.co.uk) has a PageRank of 9, which means they have a lot of weight in the search engines. Their pages will rank very high and very quickly.
Here is the problem that Brent, an SEO [...]

Upcoming Change to Search Referrals for Google.com

This is a huge announcement.
Google is changing the string it sends as a referral to sites. How does this affect you? Indirectly, it won’t, but it will affect your analytics.
This is what the string used to look like,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+inside&btnG=Google+Search
This is what it will look like,
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=google+inside&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw
Question and Answer Time
Q: Is change going to be immediate [...]

Google Integrated Sports Search

Something I hadn’t seen yet was this integrated sports search. It gives you both what the current series is looking like and what the schedule is for the team. Let’s take a look.

That’s pretty awesome! It’s a little bit like Yahoo!’s SearchMonkey integration, but slightly different.
I can only assume that the data [...]

Google Adds Single-line SiteLinks

Google had been testing out the new Single-line SiteLinks, but hadn’t made a public push with the new format. Today, they launched the new format.

I noticed this on a number of queries I was making to Google. The new functionality is a little different than the original multi-line SiteLinks. More than one [...]

Looking up Phone Numbers on Google

I got a call today from an unknown number. I answered it and they hung up. So it intrigues me to figure out who it was.
Here comes the creepiness factor. So I “google” the number, and here is what came up.

Am I the only one that is slightly creeped out by how [...]

Google Hosting Services

Google Hosting?
Today, Google is launching Hosting Services. The primary requirement is that you’re a web hosting provider.
It looks like I was spot on with the prediction that Google services would integrate with cPanel. This announcement confirms that Google services will be leveraged at the hosting provider level giving web hosting clients even [...]

Google is Getting Smarter

It seems that everyday something new and amazing comes out of Google. Largely, that’s why I even write this blog about Google, because so many amazing things do come from this company.
Today, we see that Google is getting smarter and smarter.

Google can now predict what we might be searching for and help us even [...]

Dr. Seuss Google Logo

Today’s Google logo was a tribute to Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as his pen name, Dr. Seuss.

He was born on March 2nd, 1904, which would have made him 105 years old today. It’s really hard to believe that the Dr. Seuss brand has been around for almost 100 years. Of course the [...]

Google is 6% Closer to World Domination

According to a recent Hitwise report, Google is up 6% from last’s last year’s Jan 2008 report. Google is sitting pretty at a solid 72.09%. Only a 0.02% increase from the previous month. But it’s still showing a steady growth.
When there’s an increase for one engine, that means a decrease for [...]

No Celebration for President’s Day in the US

This is something I actually find a little odd. They celebrate artists, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Holloween, and everything else under the sky, but Google is not celebrating the day of all our past presidents.
Google cannot try to hide behind the “we are not political” line, we know Google is quite forward with politics and [...]

Weekend Breakup: Firefox Leaves Google for Yandex

Most recently, Firefox, after having been in bed with Google for quite some time, is shopping around for a new [Russian] partner. According to Mozilla’s bug tracking system Bugzilla, there is a bug request to change the default search partner from Google to Yandex.
This is all despite Mozilla and Google having a long-standing partnership [...]

Google Loses Mobile Search Deal to Microsoft

In recent news, Verizon chose Microsoft over both Google and Yahoo! as its search provider for its mobile devices.

Obviously Verizon did not choose Microsoft based on advanced or superior technology, but it’s purely based on the dollar amount of the deal. Microsoft must have forked out some serious cash to be selected as Verizon’s [...]

New Ways to use Google Image Search

Google announced late last week that there are a few new ways to use Google Image Search.

Image Search has been a service of Google for a long time now, but there had been little work done on it in the past 10 years besides core algorithm updates. Nothing that was a user-interface change in [...]

Google Adds International Search Functionality

Genny writes on the Google India Blog about how Google has made it easier to utilize international keywords on English keyboards to help make your search experience a lot better.
Here are some quick instructions that Genny outlines in the blog post.
Lets say that you have a Tamil language web site and want to enable search [...]

Dead Landing Pages in Google

Domain squatters make a boat load of money every year by grabbing expired or unregistered domains. Here is one example where Google’s quality of results is diminished by a domain squatter.
I was looking up a restaraunt one of my friends recommended for a place to eat. So I looked up the restaraunt name [...]

SearchWiki is Kind of Like FedEx

Google’s new SearchWiki is a little bit like FedEx. It knows how to fly by night and make an appearance the next day.
SearchWiki was here, then gone, overnight. John Mu pointed me to a link on TechCrunch, but there hasn’t been any official word yet.
Just that it was a “bug” and had to [...]

How to Disable Google’s SearchWiki Personalized Results

Joost wrote a great article on a few different ways to disable Google’s SearchWiki personalized results.
http://yoast.com/disabling-searchwiki/
Also see this post on Google Groups if you want to do it via the URL only.

Searching for Books Using Android

Google has been holding a few tricks up their sleeve and have been waiting to pull them out. It’s time.
Google’s Android product is a platform for mobile phones, a competitor would be Windows Mobile.
Google announced that they are rolling out some software which will allow Android-powered phones to search Google Books’ platform for physical [...]

Sponsored Links Gets More Image Visibility

Google’s Sponsored Links position within search results now has images included with its sponsored listings.
Here’s what it looks like.

First impressions I actually like it. Even as a Google user such as myself, I am 200% more likely to click on a sponsored link now.
In combination with yesterday’s updates, Google should see a decent influx [...]

Google to Abuse Twitter.com

This video is a great wrap-up of what’s going on with Google and Twitter.com right now.
Michael Gray talks to Loren Feldman of 1938 Media.

Duplicate Content Horror

After recently running into a problem that I could not copy and paste or duplicate goals from one profile to another profile in Google Analytics, I decided to start the search.
After using the specific keywords needed for my query, I quickly realized that Google was serving a ton of duplicate content, back to back.
Looking at [...]

Hear me speak at SES San Jose

I am speaking at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose next month on the Vertical Search panel.
If you aren’t already going, I strongly recommend that you get your expo pass as soon as possible. It’s going to be yet another amazing conference.
Some highlights include the Google Dance party, which is a must, every year. [...]

Live.com Search Growth

Late last week comScore released some data about May 2008 and June 2008 search engine usage, both search engine shares and actual query counts.
Let’s talk about the first data set.

Google actually shows a small, but noticeable decrease in their stake of the search engine market. Still holding a hefty 61.5% in June 2008, but [...]

GoogleRadar: Ninja Search Skills

I’m a huge twitter fan and I regularly twitter. If you twitter, feel free to follow me. (Thanks!)
But I noticed a tweet by Mark Jaquith and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to blog about it. Specifically because I’ve done the very same thing. It’s on a creepy / fun level actually.

Thanks for [...]

Still Feeling the Boot?

So you’re still not appearing in the Google search results? Have no fear, well, at least not too much fear, as the Google Webmaster team is here to….hmm help? Yeah, I think so.
Mariya Moeva of the Webmaster Central team writes some tips about how to effectively get your site back into the Google [...]

Google Celebrates Birth of Marc Chagall

I actually had to look up this one to find out who Marc Chagall was, but alas, another painter.
I do find it quite odd that Google celebrates a lot of painters and not too many other professions.
Here is what it looks like.

Google is Still Just a Baby

Google is showing a maximum results of 25 billion and 270 million results (25,270,000,000) right now.

Is Google’s search index really that small? It’s nothing to be ashamed about, but com’n, show us more results.
And yes, I know, those 25 billion results are being pulled in a fourth of a second. Slow? Certainly [...]

Keyword Search on Facebook

By now, everyone should know what Facebook is. If you don’t, welcome to 2008. http://www.facebook.com/
That aside, Facebook is becoming a larger and larger player in the online industry for social networking and community. By nature, whenever you get a database or website with the mass amount of users that Facebook or MySpace [...]

Return of the 404

A couple of months ago, I reported that google.com had a new 404 page, trying to suggest alternate pages when returning a 404 page.
From what I can tell, it was purely just a test to see how the new 404 page would function and how people would respond.
Here is what it used to look like.

Google [...]

Google Introduces AJAX Patent Search API

Awesome! There’s an AJAX Patent Search API tool available. There’s no possibility of there being a downside, right?
Well hold up a second there. Who cares if tools are available if the data is old. Frankly, I don’t care about any magical tool being available unless the content gets updated.
I e-mailed Adam [...]

Search All the Official Google Blogs

I was doing some research this morning and realized I wanted to search all the official Google blogs, but I couldn’t find a way to do it.
Well, what better way to do custom searching than to use the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) provided via Google Co-op.
I proudly present to you, Search All the Official [...]

YouTube Spammers Unite!

After trying to do some legitimate research about Wordpress SEO on YouTube to check out some videos that people have made.
But alas, it looks like the search giant, more commonly known as Google, still hasn’t applied its huge algorithm to it’s video platform.
So what makes me think that? Keyword stuffing spammers make me think [...]

Using Google via Command Line

There is now a way to use Google via command line.
It’s not actually using SSH, but it’s by going to goosh.org.
Here is a short list of commands that you can use.

web
news
place
images

It’s not a pure command line response though. So let’s dive in and take a look at what it responds [...]

Google’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Web”

Google recently published their own “hitchhiker’s guide to the web,” more commonly known to the public as the Google Doctype.
In short, Google Doctype is a guide for everyone (including Google), on how to go about using and creating the web. I say, “creating the web,” because in essence, that’s what we do everyday. That’s [...]

Google Takes the High Road to Mount Everest

Today, Google celebrates the achievement of the ascent to Mount Everest.

Google Haz Epic FAIL

It’s rare, but from time to time I will see a search result that, well, sucks.
I know, Google is not perfect, nor will they ever be perfect, but com’n, seriously, this is just out of hand.

Let’s take a look at that query. Searching for “view source chart” and these are the results I get? [...]

The Greener Side of Google

InformationWeek is reporting that Google will be using Solid State Disks (SSD) in their servers as a way to become just a little bit more green.
Google has so far declined to comment on the matter as “…we don’t disclose specifics about our infrastructure or hardware.” This is, of course, a smart move by Google [...]

Will You Google.me?

Not too long ago, the beginning phases of the domain extension .me (dot me) took place. They will continue to take place over the next few months.
But soon, as of July 17th, 2008, you will be able to Google.me.

I searched for a few dot me domains, but nothing stood out to me.
Here are a [...]

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 detection.
Here is the premise for the patent,
What is claimed is:
1. A method comprising: receiving a voice search query from a user; deriving a plurality of recognition hypotheses from the voice search query, each recognition hypothesis [...]

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 Myanmar. “Join the recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist cyclone victims in Myanmar. Your donation to either of these organizations will help survivors of the cyclone and other natural disasters rebuild their [...]

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 does this mean for you? Absolutely everything nothing! Google’s rankings will not change drastically because of this export. Google is internally updating PageRank on a, well, probably a daily basis.
Many folks who [...]

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 becoming more and more apparent that Google trusts authority more than anything with its algorithm. Right, of course, this is obvious. But, what I want to look at today is how Google actually shows [...]

Forbes on Microsoft’s aQuantive Acquisition

Forbes published an article this morning that talks about how Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive, made a year ago, could have a serious conflict of interest in the industry of search and paid search.
I do not believe it will.
Microsoft is a very silo-ed company. They are made up of many different entities, companies within companies. [...]

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 query, “adium windows” — Adium is an instant messenger client for OS X.

In this screen shot above, we can clearly see that Google understands the concept of what you are searching for. It already [...]

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 thought that came to mind was, “hmmm, is this a late April Fool’s Day joke?”
Why? Because what they are saying seems completely illogical and frankly, stupid.
In the past few months we have been exploring [...]

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 Search now let’s you view code snippets within normal search results while browsing around google.com. The search is for “substr“.

Google Sells Performics Division

Danny Sullivan wrote an open letter to Google mid last month essentially asking for Google to not go into the search engine marketing business. I certainly feel it was a good letter and a well deserved letter.
Google has responded.
Quite quickly too, in fact.
Google announced on this past Wednesday that they will be splitting off [...]

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 is not found,” but now it turns useful information.
Something to keep in mind with having a non-static 404 page is that there are potentially millions, if not billions, of people reaching these pages. The [...]

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 select queries it does. For this example, we will be looking at the terms “best buy” on Google.

Personally, I never use the “more pages from X.domain” because if I want to use such a [...]

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 a few screen shots of what the Universal Search used to look like.

Let’s flash forward, about nine months later. Here is what those searches look like today.

Another keyword search that I’ve seen change, in [...]

Google Encourages Descriptive Anchor Text

Google Webmaster Tools are very useful and important to help determine how Google is indexing and seeing your website. One tool in particular is the “what Googlebot sees” tool. I wrote this article late last year on “Can Googlebot See You?” if you want some more in depth analysis about Googlebot.
Here is a [...]

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 Microsoft Search. But why would I care about using one of these customized search engines if they are only using old data?
Article 1, the most recent patent application submitted by Google was in September [...]

Interview with Bharat Mediratta About the Google Web Server

I have known Bharat Mediratta for a number of years now. We finally had the change to meet late last year at Google’s corporate office in NYC.
But enough about Bharat, he will explain more about himself in the interview.
Note: this interview was conducted via e-mail as he’s based out of Mountain View, CA [...]

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 data.
Here are the inventors noted for the patent,

Acharya, Anurag (Campbell, CA, US)
Cutts, Matt (Mountain View, CA, US)
Dean, Jeffrey (Palo Alto, CA, US)
Haahr, Paul (San Francisco, CA, US)
Henzinger, Monika (Lausanne, CH)
Hoelzle, Urs (Palo Alto, CA, US)
Lawrence, [...]

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 of searches also declined, comScore said on Wednesday.”
Web searches do seem to be down a little bit, but mobile traffic is increasing at an alarming rate. I feel this is where Google is starting [...]

New Search Algorithm for Yahoo?

Yahoo! filed for a patent last week which would allow the use of their algorithm to utilize personalized bookmarks as the “weight.”
This moves away from the general consensus of people voting through general links and it moves a lot closer to a social media style of generating results. Using personalized bookmarks to weigh how [...]

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 and more specific keywords. Today, we are going to look at this specific term: “backup gmail with thunderbird”
Alright, so those terms put together provide results where I rank #2 or #3 in Google. [...]

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 of fresh content. Particularly, we are looking at regularly updated content.
For example, I will use this site, www.ginside.com, as the example. We try to keep Google Inside updated a few times a day [...]

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 of “dedicated servers.”

Alright, so Yahoo! ranks Aplus.net as the first hit for natural results for the term “dedicated servers” — nothing special about that, but let’s see where it leads to.

Let’s take a look at [...]

Javascript Hackers Invited to Hackathon at Google

Yesterday, Google announced the 2008 Hackathon to be held at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
As far as I can tell, it’s not a contest, but just a time to get together.
“The event is open to anyone in the community that wants to learn about some Google API’s, do some coding, or ask some questions. [...]

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 me. But let’s take a look at the search below to see how Google is helping this user,

I cannot be sure if this is new or if it’s been around for a while, but [...]

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 proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments.”
On a [...]

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 as a freebie (almost).
With just a little effort on your part, Google could include you in their backlinks today!
Today, we’re looking at http://services.google.com/websiteoptimizer/.

SELand’s Andrew Goodman wrote up an article about the Google Website Optimizer Beta [...]

Dissatisfied? Help us improve.

Have you ever been disappointed by the search results in Google? Now you can help fix that to make them better!
After running your query, simply go to the footer and suggest better results.
The next step is to run the Experimental Search while using Google.

Let’s dig into Experimental Search a little bit. What does [...]

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 carpenter and joiner, establishes his business in the village of Billund, Denmark. His firm manufactures stepladders, ironing boards, stools and wooden toys. His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, starts working in the business at [...]

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 private schools. Most offices have today off as well (not including mine).
So to everyone I wish a happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Google Toolbar PageRank Updates 2008

The “word” of PageRank certainly does spread like wildfire around here [in the Blogosphere]. First Barry, then Loren, all sparked up by a few forum threads.

So we’re back to talking about PageRank, yet again. We talked about links and pagerank a couple months ago, so actually, it hasn’t been all that recent.
But looking [...]

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 trek which will take the world down a read of being able to search for anything, anywhere.
According to what Danny recently touched on, Google has filed three new patents: Recognizing text in images, Enhancing text [...]

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 every term. Michael Gray writes on the latest of whether this kind of “love” is truly justified. I agree with his standpoint.
So what’s really going on? The love/hate relationship going on is [...]

Goggle.com … Some Interesting Results

I was reading up on an article about goggle.com and I decided to do some digging. First off, no results are shown on the Google search engine when doing a site: search for goggle.com. When you go to Yahoo! to do the search, it brings up some even more interesting results: it pulls up data for Google.com. Interesting how the different search engines cache and treat this domain.