Archive for the 'Google' Category

Google Tagging, Yet Another Attempt

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Google has introduced this week a new feature which enabled users to tag and comment any webpage in their ‘My search history’ page. This feature which has been around elsewhere for a while now, can allow them later to apply tagging patterns into real search results.
While some may think that tagging your own pages […]

GoogleBastards.com - Soon, In The Theatre Near You

Monday, October 10th, 2005

This funny cartoon was mentioned on the SEW’s blog,

It comes courtesy of the South Park gang (unofficial, of course). Basically, someone (those responsible for the page) are not very happy with Google juggernaut. You decide.
Another Google editorial cartoon was posted this morning in the NYT. Any search features missing?

Interview With Matt Cutts of Google

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Aaron, of SEOBook, has a great interview with Matt Cutts, of Google. The interview goed into several different subjects, and makes a great read.
Q: What are the biggest SEO related changes you can forecast for the upcoming year?
A: If you’re doing whitehat SEO, the same principles will apply going forward: make a great […]

Google Blog Search is Officially Live

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

The long awaited Google blog search is has gone live earlier today making it the first major search engine to offer a dedicated blog search platform. This service is set to be a major player among the blog search industry which currently includes Feedster, Technorati, IceRocket and several more.
According to the FAQ’s:
Blog Search is Google […]

Is Google Trying to Recruit M$ Emploee Using Adwords?

Monday, August 29th, 2005

It very much looks like it… Scoble reports that when searching in Google for Microsoft’s researcher Susan Dumais you’ll get a specific Google Jobs ad on top of the page.
Search for other Microsoft employees does not seem to trigger any similar ads…

Google is Warning of “Sneaky JavaScript”

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Great post by Matt Cutts of Google named SEO Mistakes: sneaky JavaScript warns SEO’s and webmasters in general of using javascript redirects in doorway / spam pages.
This time he gives a great example of a site which created dozens of auto generated content pages that not only make no sense, but even redirects to the […]

Google’s New Domains, Hidden Agenda or Protection?

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

A couple of weeks ago Google had registered the domains GoogleMovieReviews.com and GoogleShowtime.com (along with the .net, .org & .info of these domains), and starts a long line of speculations regarding the purpose behind it.

Are standalone movie info sites being built to go head-to-head with AOL’s Moviefone? Will Google partner with other services or begin […]

The Power of Links

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Gotta love this, if you search Google for hypocrite and see what you find.
I could not find that word even once on that page besides the domain name. And, we already know that domain names have no affect over ranking.
Considering the fact that Google has a copy of the current page cached and therefore […]

SE Guru Responds to the SE’s Size Issues

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Following last weeks announcement of Yahoo extending it’s index size, SE guru Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch.com is daring the search engines to start delivering more relevant results rather than size reports.

This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. It’s absurd. It’s annoying. It’s a friggin’ waste of time. Instead of advancing to a […]

Google’s New Inside Adsense Blog Launched

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Google has just launched Inside Adsense Blog which is going to be, according to their first post, the Adsense equivalent to their Inside Adwords Blog.
Google is still a pretty small place, so when we heard that our AdWords friends had put together an Inside AdWords blog, it got our competitive juices flowing! It also made […]