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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Sells Performics Division

Danny Sullivan wrote an open letter to Google mid last month essentially asking for Google to not go into the ...

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Outdated Google Patent Search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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Goggle.com … Some Interesting Results

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