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Google Suggest to Change the Ways of Search Engine Optimization
Earlier this week, we reported that Google Suggest was going to become more mainstream -- that is, that it would be the search default. Essentially, Google would "choose" the search phrases you were aiming to search for. This decision has...
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Updating Google’s Historical Data Patent, Part 1 - Freshness
In March, one of the more interesting patent filings from Google was granted, Information retrieval based on historical data.
I had discussed it on forums when the original patent application came out in March of 2005, but didn’t provide a write up of the document here. I realized a few weeks ago that I probably [...]
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Vanessa Fox to Speak at the Upcoming SEMNE Event
On September 16th in Trumbull, CT, Vanessa Fox will speak about how marketing will enhance your search traffic. It should be a good talk and this blogger may actually be there to liveblog it for the Search Engine Roundtable community....
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Internet Explorer 8 Live & Yahoo Promotes Firefox
Yesterday, Sam pinged me with a screenshot of Yahoo's explicit endorsement of Firefox 3. The link takes you to http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/ which only seems to work on IE at this time (if you use FF to access that page, it will...
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Veoh Decision Good News For Google, Potentially Bad News For Viacom In YouTube Litigation
Online video destination Voeh Networks was sued in 2006 for copyright infringement by IO Group (an adult video producer). The facts in the case and claims are generally similar to those of Viacom vs. YouTube. Yesterday a federal District Court judge in California issued a ruling that (barring an appeal by IO) vindicates Veoh and absolves the company of liability for copyright infringement. (Here's the decision.)
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Google Testing Two Videos On One Web Search Result
Ever since the launch of Google Universal Search Google has been showing videos in the web search results. But sometimes, there are more than one video shown in the web search results and, in many cases, those multiple videos will take up the space of 2 or more of the ten results shown. Philipp Lenssen reports that Google is now testing showing a second video result, on the same search result as the first video result.
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Pilgrim’s Picks for August 28 - Book Contest Winners Announced
Thanks to everyone that entered to win a copy of "Always Be Testing." Our three winners are listed below today’s Picks. Google uses Democratic convention to pitch products to governments.
Add BackType to your list of reputation monitoring tools. Enter a keyword (your company name) and BackType’s results include any blog comment that includes that keyword.
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Google Gives Google Apps Users Credit & Adds Communication Policies
Earlier this month, Google's popular email service had a major outage. News.com is now reporting that Google has responded to Google Apps Premier users with a credit and a promise to provide better communication tools, in case this happens again.
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Microsoft Throwing Ice Cream Cones at Google?
There’s a classic comedy skit from Eddie Izzard about England getting taken by surprise by the Germans in World War II. He suggests that Germany had a head start on building weapons, and England? Well, I’ll let him explain: "Get the tanks out! Get the…we haven’t got any tanks? Then get that ice cream van out [...]
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Cleaning Up A Penalizes Site Versus Burning It & Starting Again
A WebmasterWorld thread has early discussion on the topic of what to do about a penalized site. Should the webmaster destroy the domain and start on a new one or should he/she clean up the site and wait for Google...
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How To Tame GoogleBot
A Google Groups thread has a detailed discussion around the topic of Google spider, GoogleBot, crawling too much. Sometimes servers can be overwhelmed by all the traffic it gets and automated crawlers, such as GoogleBot, can add a tremendous amount...
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Google Fixes Traffic Estimator Service API Numbers
About three months ago, we reported that the Google AdWords API Traffic Estimator figures were off. Since then, nothing much has changed, but Google announced that they have made changes that should help stabilize those figures and make them more...
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Search & Internet Explorer 8
After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh), I spent some time playing with the new search functionality and checking to see if Microsoft was going to try and stack the deck in its favor with the new browser. So far, it remains pretty even handed. Indeed, so far, Microsoft seems kind of lame given that there are some cool search features you're hard pressed to locate. Let's take a tour.
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Why Alert Competitors to Your SEO Strategy?
Why you should not announce your marketing strategy as being related to SEO, even if it is.
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Breaking: Google Listens to Apps Customers, Improvements on the Way!
As a paying Google Apps customer, the lack of communication during recent outages left a bad taste in my mouth.
I’m pleased to report that I just received an email from Google with details of many improvements coming our way. These are much needed and welcomed. We’re committed to making Google Apps Premier Edition a service on [...]
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