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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: July 12, 2007 - 11:45 am
Posted By: rustybrick 549 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Nice find by Bill, a patent app that discloses some nice tips on AdWords quality score. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 548 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
The Es are bold, the Es are bold!!! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Posted By: gord 547 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Other
I had the opportunity to chat with usability guru Jakob Nielsen about what might be happening with search in the next few years and he's not bullish read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2007 - 4:48 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gearthblog.com)
Category: Google Other
How do you get started as a pool guy? Chris McCall in Utah used Google Earth to find everyone with a pool in his area, then did a custom mailing to t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
Google reportedly has 10,000 people looking for spam manually. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ericenge 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Google
Eric Enge interviews Udi Manber about search quality and various aspects of the Google algorithm. Topics includes personalization, the role of links read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Google Other
Tomorrow, July 11, Google will be introducing Mapplets for public use. These Google gadgets allow people to use previously created mapping mashups o read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: Jonah 547 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Have I been asleep at the RSS switch lately or did Google
release a "refine results" feature or is that some artistry with the URL?

I was ch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google appears to have penalized Squidoo, thanks to an attack led by Jason Calacanis, who run a Squidoo competitor. Talk about a cat fight. And there read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Rosenstand 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gazette.com)
Category: Google Searching
Well - this just proves that Google search can and will provide for your every need... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: tomcritchlow 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.distilled.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
Due to wikipedia's dominance of the SERPs we have developed a firefox plugin which allows you to search Google and get results with wikipedia no where to be seen! read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: iSearch 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.isearchmedia.com)
Category: Google
The results shown from this search sure makes it seem like Google is misogynistic.... Or are they? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mateosquared 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chicagotribune.com)
Category: Google Searching
I know Google is good, but this is hard to believe that they will get 90% market share. The author states that search can be monopolized like the yellow pages, but I don't think that is possible. There is, and will be more to search than telephone read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.timesonline.co.uk)
Category: Google AdWords
A consumer watchdog is taking legal action against Google over the way it sells and displays its sponsored links, in a case that could "send shudders down the industry". read more »
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Avatar Posted By: PPCblogger 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcblog.co.uk)
Category: Google
Where should Google draw the line between contextual adverts that honestly integrate as part of a website and those that go out of there way to optimise specifically for the accidental click? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google recently announced that they had begun to roll out universal search features, where their search results pages would contain more than just web pages and documents. This has some small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) concerned. The feeling read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sebastian 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastianx.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Searching
Actually, I'm just testing the Sphinn-it! widget with Blogger. I will post my findings later on. In the meantime here is another secret: The unreal story of the eBaydia rankings at Googledia ... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hotwheel 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com)
Category: Google SEO
The newly announced Google Checkout gadget addition page is asking for permission to allow them to display it on the main Google site. Could we see transactional ecommerce gadgets right in the search results page, and what does it mean for SEO? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teddie 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Google
How a page not even in Google can out rank one that has actually been indexed. Also legal issues with Googles implementation of Robots.txt. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teddie 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.timesonline.co.uk)
Category: Google
Seems like this argument is now a little dated. "Australia’s competition watchdog is seeking an injunction to stop Google from displaying search results that did not “expressly distinguish” advertisements" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teddie 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Google
Surprisingly given that the UK has one of, if not the highest density of video cameras anywhere in the world we're certainly interested in our privacy issues. This article from Wired claims Google is dishonestly using the E.U. Data Directive to jus read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2007 - 9:23 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.redflymarketing.com)
Category: Google Other
We just released a brand spanking new Firefox plugin/extension that allows you to easily check the Google search results (Organic and paid) as they appear in different countries. Any feedback or feature requests would be very much appreciated. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: galichev 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phprobots.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Easy way of tracking your Adsense earnings with PHP.
Full source code provided. You can automatically retrieve last earnings, send e-mail or sms message with this information, write it to database. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seoz87 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoz.wordpress.com)
Category: Google
some advance operators to use when searching to specific your search results and use those operators for SEO purpose. take a look

http://seoz.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/google-advance-search-operators/ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Looks like Google is finally testing mobile AdSense ads. Sweet! read more »
7 Comments     


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