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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Harith 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: Google Searching
"A couple of weeks ago, Adobe announced that it was working with Google and Yahoo! on making Flash content easier to index in search engines. Google said it was using the search-engine specific Flash player that Adobe had made available (Yahoo!’s in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Searching
Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Posted By: chris2930 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pingpongpie.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is displaying images in the SERPS for certain searches. However, the new images are only appearing for a very narrow band of searches. Something I've never seen before. Interesting. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: mvandemar 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Searching
Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: ColinCochrane 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Searching
Just like the title says, this may be the greatest sitelink that Google has ever generated for a site.

Be warned, however, because it is quite offensive. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: dsnyder 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: isaSuperstar 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google have the responsibility of ordering all of the chaotic content that appears on the Internet each day to help users sift through it in an organized manner. That is their service. If they fail to do this, they becomes useless, people will no lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: janecopland 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Searching
NY Times: "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 4:38 am
Posted By: janecopland 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Searching
Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 10:32 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Danny Sullivan writes, "Looks like Google's gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. Enter a query like whois searchengineland.com, and you'll be told when the domain was registered and expires, along with a link to more in read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
I'm interviewing Google's Marissa Mayer at our SMX Sydney show later this week. Marissa oversees search products and user experience. I'm looking for questions people would like to see asked. Thinking caps on! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 2:27 am
Posted By: pittfall 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
It isn't the dance, but it is very interesting that the index across these two Google datacenters are different from the regular index.

In fact, with a quick query for bank, aside from subtle SERP changes, the number of pages indexed differed - 5 read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 29, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google doesn't like us optimizers gaming their algorithm. They have put these walls in place to keep us in check, thus making it an ongoing battle to grab the top spot. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 6:22 am
Posted By: janecopland 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
Andy Beal thinks that The New York Time is over-reacting with its article questioning the new move; however, he seems to be overlooking some serious implications of Google's "Search within a site" feature. read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 23, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: theGypsy 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Searching
SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Google Searching
A simple analysis on Annie7's (SEOSMARTY) site on how the new search within search (teleportation) is not necessarily the best thing for brands. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 10:25 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google has gone and added search boxes in the search results. Based on how often people show they have desired a more specific search result, the boxes will show under the site links on the search results page. read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:12 pm
Posted By: CristianMezei 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopedia.org)
Category: Google Searching
An extensive post I just made about the Google Sitelinks (what are, how to get them), where I tried to be as accurate as possible with my findings. It includes Do's and Dont's sections, a FAQ and a resume of Vanessa Fox's post. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 5:09 am
Posted By: Wingnut 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wingnutseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
I was trying to find a image to use on a blog post today - at work - I was kind of shocked to find LOTS of porn for such a seemingly harmless query. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Posted By: bwelford 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 10:14 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
When Google started, even if they had the resources they do now, they could not have created what they have now. When Google started, search engines, and especially caching content, were dubious at best.
They have now begun not only indexing inform read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: bwelford 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Searching
This is great functionality. Most useful when you'd like to know how long something has been around. read more »
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