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Widely recognized as the world's most popular search engine, Google defines searching to the degree that some people say they "googled" something as a synonym for searching. For more background, see Google news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Posted By: andymurd 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google
It's got to be a tough job to preempt the internet's collective whinging when Google announces a big deal like Chrome, but Mr Cutts steps up. What has he missed? read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Google's has released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Yesterday, Danny described his test-drive of Chrome in Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox and Greg speculated on its fut read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 1 day 14 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Another great one from Shimon Sandler.

Start off by downloading a Keyword Report for a previous Time Period out of Adwords report center. Sort by your specific success metric (eg: Cost-Per-Coversion, Orders, etc.). read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 3:13 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 1 day 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: ciaran 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Final proof if it were needed that Google is now too powerful - they've redrawn the map of Europe and ceded the Benelux countries to Germany... read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
There's a beta release coming out tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries, so I've tried to collect as much information as possible tonight to help us all prepare for what will clearly be a busy week in the search industry. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: ciaran 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Not content with acting as most people's default browser, Google actually now wants to be people's browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess 'so much cash' is a relative term) read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:21 am
Posted By: storyspinner 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:53 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Google
Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 6:55 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martinbowling.com)
Category: Google Searching
Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: BrianChappell 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitecreations.com)
Category: Google SEO
"The Google Suggest feature, long a part of Google labs has behavior that will feel familiar to most readers of my blog. But for the remaining millions of casual users, we may see some changes in search behavior. Now, a rumor once again has emerged read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:39 am
Posted By: toddmintz 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 8:57 am
Posted By: mdjensen 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 6:23 am
Posted By: SiteMost 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 2:09 am
Posted By: markus941 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: seoafloat 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-space.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Video of Matt's comments about why they don't mention big name sites that get penalized for playing with black/grey hat tactics during SES San Jose 2008 read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: danzarrella 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google SEO
I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: sodapopseo 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
a link builder had the 'nerve' (for lack of a better word), to post a public link exchange offer in not just a Google Group but in the the official "Google Webmaster Help" group, for all Googler's to see. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google AdSense
When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: infatex 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google SEO
PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm
Posted By: Harith 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
55 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: ciaran 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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