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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 Posted By: kevgibbo 1 hour 25 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny Sullivan says: "Google's finally added a privacy link to its home page, explaining in 613 words why the company apparently can't have more than 28 words on its home page." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kerstinbakerash 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Privacy International is seeking more information from Google - odds are the search behemoth won't be giving up technical data any time soon. After seven days, the group says they'll refer it to the Privacy Commissioner, which could mean the suspen read more »
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Avatar Posted By: purpleview 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google
A post on the Google Webmaster Blog on when and how to submit a reconsideration request for your site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ianmc 4 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: Google
Just about the biggest development in search right now is the news that Adobe have licensed new technology to Google and Yahoo that will allow them to index some Flash content. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: scott08 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.isotree.com)
Category: Google AdWords
We at Isotree, manage search marketing campaigns for corporations who have a product or service that appeals to a broad national audience. isoTree provides mastered solutions to Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Sponsored Listings of Internet Marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: louislaubscher 6 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technologyblog.tamar.com)
Category: Google Other
Weak Web application security has become a high threat for companies, not to mention the embarrassment that goes along with it and could potentially mean the loss of very important data and ultimately the loss of millions of Pounds. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DazzlinDonna 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Google Searching
Oh no, it wasn't an SEO Chick who titled that...nuh-uh, it was Google! Oh yeah. Google in all their relevant wisdom, made that remark. Go ahead. Read it. Tsk, tsk, tsk... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mikesilvia 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.tw3o.com)
Category: Google AdWords
I have not spent money using Google AdWords in months, but I still use AdWords powerful Keyword Tool to help me decide article topics. The Keyword Tool will detail the current month’s search volume, the average search volume for the past 12 months a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny updates the earlier story about YouTube data/Viacom/etc. with news that the data in question may not be as detailed as previously thought. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ViperChill 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Avatar Posted By: web2surf 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cyberspirits.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
The Google Crawler has found the .exe extension as useless in the past so they are no more interested in indexing the .exe extension files. As a matter even Url's ending with a 0 at last become useless. The SEOmoz team made a case study for not end read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vien 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dreamteammoney.com)
Category: Google Other
Building backlinks is an essential, yet tedious job for most webmasters. Here are a few tools and tips to make that job just a little bit easier… read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BartTheBear 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.moxie-drive.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Referrals will be retired during the last week of August 2008. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Feydakin 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
The retractions are never as much fun as the original..

The important part is that you do not treat the Googlebots any different than other users from that region. So if your site blocks users in the region where the Googlebot comes from (based o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: parp 22 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.massmediadesign.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
From the site: The announcement that Google can now index flash pages thanks to a plug-in by Adobe should be welcomed by web developers and SEO practitioners but I’m afraid it leaves me with a rather cold sense of foreboding. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: weboptimist 1 day 32 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Smart move by Google. Skype users have been hungry for a way to use the Skype service, at least with WiFi, on the iPhone since it came out, but Skype has been silent on the option. The workarounds I have found have all been duds.

Google Talk is l read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mercylivi 1 day 1 hour 32 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google Street View, which photographs the streets and lanes within cities and other destinations via a continuous panoramic camera placed on the top of cars, has now gone live for France. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steven73 1 day 2 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sc-web.org)
Category: Google Other
Google Affiliate Network connects advertisers to publishers who want to increase their sales and their profits through a method based on marketing affiliation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 1 day 2 hours 13 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hyperdogmedia.com)
Category: Google Searching
Googlebot is hungry and looking for data in previously inaccessible corners of the web. Recent changes to search technology mean previously uncrawled sites are going to receive a visit from the search behemoth. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 1 day 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Google
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teddie 1 day 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: drodecker 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Expecting to see many behind-the-scenes updates in the near future. The recent modifications to the local index has created a complications among the data sources. We're finding multiple sources of the same data records not normalizing correctly a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MrJavodotCom 1 day 13 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johncow.com)
Category: Google Other
Google search has certain commands that you can include with your search query, which allow you to “filter” their search engine results, which can help you get somewhat of a better idea of areas you might want to improve upon to help your blog rank read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lethal0r 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.profithunter.ru)
Category: Google SEO
This is some useful software that you can install & use to gage how many visits the top site in the Google SERPS gets for a keyword of your choice. It uses Google Trends to do it.

It doesnt return any data for low volume keywords but it seems pre read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ppedersen 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://paulpedersen.com)
Category: Google SEO
Googlebot indexes pages, right? Pages have unique URLs, right, and unique title tags? How many full-Flash websites do you see where the URL changes as you navigate from section to section?

So what is Google going to index?

Building a site comp read more »
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