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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 8:53 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:18 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 3:59 pm
Posted By: annie7 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
Curiously Google has blocked most Google properties from the product. Do a search for Google.com and you get nothing. Same for YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, etc. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: mercylivi 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.”

This sentence was probably the most overlooked part of the Yahoo & Google read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
Google offers a wide variety of products aimed at small business owners, and many of them are free — or very low-cost. But does that make these products and services a good idea? I’ve written before about Google products a small business should use. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: annie7 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
If you host your blog on Google’s Blogspot or use Blogger; you are giving Google the right to control and access your content and information. Even shut down your blog when they see fit to do so. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 11:48 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Ann Smarty writes, "More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth blogger complains that his site has been hacked. A few red flags that might read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: rustybrick 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon. My life is now complete! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: annie7 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has proven that they can monetize conversations with GMail and GTalk. Should we be expecting a test of AdSense on Twitter anytime soon? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 7:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Other
This is my attempt at a post about what the future of the SEO and Google will be. I'll be the first to admit that some of the stuff I say is (IMO) pretty out there as far as predictions go, but I'd love to get some feedback from the sphinn community read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:01 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: graywolf 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Google Other
The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a de read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 2:15 am
Posted By: mvandemar 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Should Google be more upfront in it's promotion of Google Health about the possibility of a data mishap? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 14, 2008 - 3:11 pm
Posted By: annie7 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: Gab 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Google Other
Mike Blumenthal published a fascinating interview/case study into how one personal injury lawyer in LA got himself banned while the competition continues to spam. As usual, Google is unresponsive on the whole (Maps guide Jen is the tiny exception). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:17 am
Posted By: tamar 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnbc.com)
Category: Google Other
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!, online advertising growth rates, Go read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 4:13 pm
Posted By: ciaran 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Other
The Mozzers come up with some interesting things that Google should look at adding to their OneBox results... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 9:25 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Other
Does google bowling exist?
Do you get penalized for getting 1000's of links you never looked for or asked for?
Can someone really hurt you by linking you to 1000's of bad neighborhoods?
This guy needs help, and he needs it quick. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 10:12 am
Posted By: tnash 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Google Other
Yet Another Bookmarking List, only this one might actually be useful based on Googles own trusted list as found via Feedburner a Google owned company read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 8:10 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 1:18 am
Posted By: Wingnut 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seocracy.com)
Category: Google Other
From the page: Google has already demonstrated an immense desire to invest in startups with unique ideas and the right code to implement them. By storing your code with Google, what is to stop them from just peeking in? By using the AppEngine, you b read more »
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