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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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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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"However, the news that Google may soon be able to index this content changes nothing. It's still up to you to convince your clients to avoid Flash. As pretty as it may be in small doses, a Web site entirely in Flash still presents a poor user exper read more »
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I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
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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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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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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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Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
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Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
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Marty Weintraub writes, "SEM industry writers, conference organizers and attendees are passionately defending, disparaging and debating ethics surrounding so-called “gray/black hat tactics” presented @ SMX Advanced Seattle. I was surprised to find s read more »
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Last week I attended my first search conference. I gleaned a lot of valuable info and met many interesting people. Throughout the conference I compiled a mental checklist for my next conference. My hope is that my experience and the corresponding ch read more »
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I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

I have yet to write read more »
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Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to read more »
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This morning I was handing off a project to a developer and found myself ranting about the common mistakes developers make when coding HTML. These boneheaded mistakes can cause search engines to choke when it comes to indexing your websites. And its read more »
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While both services figure to improve in short time, they work well together for the moment. Given the way software is developing these days, it’s not unreasonable to think that oneSearch will adopt some of Tellme’s location services, while Tellme m read more »
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When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
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Reddit.com just launched their highly anticipated redesign. There are quite a few new features, including the option for hard core Reddit fans to turn the view back to the compressed link format. Check it out. read more »
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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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Michael Gray writes "When Google has the ability to decide what information get presented and valued on the web with absolute and unquestioned authority, all because we trust them and they give us free tools and 25GB of free GMAIL space, we’ve sold read more »
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Wow. MediaPost does a number on Sphinn and SEO Bloggers. Hat tip to Todd Mintz for Tweeting this post on Twitter. I never would have read it otherwise. read more »
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