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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Is Dell Buying Text Links?
Is computer seller Dell buying text links ads, those non-nofollowed paid links which also happen to go against the Google webmaster guidelines? For instance, the following bit can be seen on the PageRank 6 OpenSourceTemplates.org: The respecti ... (more...)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Google Code Hosting Abused for Spam
Spammers have found a way to try abuse the Google Code Hosting project. Originally, Code Hosting was and is meant as a platform to store and manage your open source projects. Including an issues tracker, a download section, and source access. Plus a ... (more...)
Monday, January 5, 2009
As Lively Goes Down, NewLively Springs Up
Google's 3D world Lively, as announced last year, was stopped on January 1st after being live just a couple of months. Their homepage is now displaying a good-bye message, and if you were among the (not so lucky) early adopters, your embedded roo ... (more...)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Google Earth Updates 3D New York
Desktop app Google Earth has seen an update to its New York 3D buildings, Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog reports. Frank compares what the scenery looked like in January 2007 vs today. You can also open Street View imagery within Earth t ... (more...)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Google Book Search Adds Magazines
Google announced that Google Book Search now also includes scans from magazines such as Ebony, New York Magazine, Men's Health, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics*. Try this sample search, and you can view the pages of an issue of Ebony from 1 ... (more...)
Google Releases Browser Extension to Run Native Code
Google has released something to the open source world they call the Native Client. It is meant as a way for website developers to execute rich code faster within the browser... by having it run "natively" on the computer. This could help any pro ... (more...)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
A New, Wider YouTube Template
The template of Google-owned YouTube got an overhaul. The page is now stretched wider, with the former top tabs being more like a single-element navigation bar, integrating the search box at the same horizontal position. Just recently, YouTube ro ... (more...)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Get Quick Feedback For Your Website
Feedback Army is an incredibly useful little website where you pay $7 for feedback to a given website of yours, and then get back 10 comments. Feedback Army uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk in the background. You enter the domain in question, say "e ... (more...)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Google Now Lets You Upvote Results and Comment On Them
Google has gone live with a big change to their result pages, at least for those of you who are logged in (if you're not seeing it yet, it may still be rolled out for your Google Account). It's called SearchWiki, and lets you edit the position of ... (more...)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
EtherPad
EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit ... (more...)
Google Plans to Shut Down Lively 3D World
Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then supposed to show an image but no more interacti ... (more...)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
What Do People Search For?
[Google Spreadsheet] Google released an app they call Search-based Keyword Tool. Google says this tool "generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website" and in doing so, "helps you identify additional advertis ... (more...)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Google Smart Grid
Jérôme Flipo is a student living in London, presently doing a research on mobile web marketing. Last week, Google has taken an additional step to enter the energy industry by joining the DRSG Coalition, a team of leading providers of demand resp ... (more...)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Doug Heil on Blackhat SEO
Doug Heil of IHelpYou.com will be participating at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Chicago "Black Hat/White Hat" SEO panel. Doug is currently working as a search engine optimization consultant; before jumping on the internet in 1996, he wor ... (more...)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Google Reader Can Now Auto-Translate Posts
If you would like to subscribe to a blog or other feed in a language you're not speaking, Google Reader now offers an auto-translate feature for you. Just subscribe to a specific feed, say, the German GoogleWatchBlog. Then check "Feed settings" ... (more...)
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Google Analytics Changes
Google's web stats tool Google Analytics is rolling out a new intro page. On the upside, you can now directly see if the traffic to a certain site increased in the last specific time period. A red arrow pointing down means your site's losing visi ... (more...)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Google China's Net Cafe Homepages
Google China offers several homepage variations, specifically tailored to be shown in Google-partnering internet cafes. For reference here's the Google default homepage at google.cn or g.cn: Below is one for the affiliate named "icafemedia", a ... (more...)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Gmail Now Supports Gadgets
The Google gadgets platform is further expanding in scope: you can now include gadgets to the left-hand side of Gmail. Google provides two special gadgets to get you started -- a Google Calendar gadget listing your upcoming events, as well as a G ... (more...)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Google Serving Anti Gay Marriage Ads On Gay Community Site
Real classy, Google keyword matching algo (or Google targeted advertising)... serving an anti gay marriage ad on a gay community/ interests site! The AdSense ad in question was shown on Bilerico.com, which has the motto "daily experiments in LGBT ... (more...)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Gmail Labs Canned Responses
Yet another experimental feature has just been added to Gmail Labs. "Canned Responses" offers two useful features in one: the ability to store emails as templates and the ability to automatically respond to emails using those templates. When c ... (more...)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Google Uses Public Service Ads to Link to Own Election Page
Google AdSense ads are embedded in websites all across the web. As a webmaster, you have the option to let Google display Public Service Ads when they cannot find a fitting other ad; these ads will not earn the webmaster revenue. Now, as Wirememe ... (more...)
Monday, October 20, 2008
Google Now Allows Sites to Serve Content to Them While Showing a Registration Box to Non-Google Users
There once was a time when Google search tried to be a neutral bystander, watching the web without getting too actively involved. There once was a time when Google instructed webmasters to serve their Googlebot the same thing served to a site's h ... (more...)
Friday, October 17, 2008
New iGoogle Live
Google had been testing a new layout for their personalized homepage since some time. It's now rolled out by default at igoogle.com. The tabs moved from the top to the left-hand side. Gadgets can now be opened in their own maximized view within i ... (more...)
Monday, October 13, 2008
German Court Rules Against Google's Result Thumbnails
Bloomberg reports that Google lost two court cases in Germany over the display of thumbnails in their image search results. Google's preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyrights, the Regional Court of Ha ... (more...)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Planet Google (Book)
A new book by Randall Stross is out; it's called "Planet Google" and covers Google's beginnings but also their latest actions and troubles. It's a very good, highly readable, well-researched and up-to-date introduction to the subject and will al ... (more...)
Picasa Unlisted Albums Privacy Issue Fixed
Google's photo storing app Picasa Web Albums had a bit of a privacy vulnerability. When you create an unlisted album to send to friends, you'll usually not expect the URL to get out to non-friends -- that's why Google included an authentication k ... (more...)
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Speech Output for Knol Articles
Google added text-to-speech capabilities to some Knol articles, like the one titled "File Formats in Digital Photography". You can download the MP3 as well as hit a Listen button in the top right. The quality of the speech output -- I strongly su ... (more...)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Steve Ballmer Talks About "Windows Cloud"
Why hasn't Microsoft already made their office tools available as online versions? It could set them up in a good position against Google's online office efforts -- the shift to the so-called computing cloud, the buzzword of recent times. I once ... (more...)
Google Blog Search Now Clusters Hot Topics
As of recently the Google Blog Search homepage consisted of a simple search box, but now it looks more like Google News or Techmeme: it groups related stories into groups. To the left side of each cluster, you'll see how many blogs discussed t ... (more...)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Try Google Search As It Was in 2001
In honor of their tenth birthday*, Google brought back their search engine the way it was many years ago, in January 2001. Below an old-school Google logo (in 2001 they were actually already using a newer one) the input box invites you to search ... (more...)
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