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If you took a very heavily spam-influenced search engine like Bing for example and removed the first 1 million results for a query, how good would the result be? How about doing the same thing to the best filtered search engines available? Well someone got curious and made the million short search engine. What this […]
Thanks to the recent (April/March) Google updates, ‘tread lightly’ has never been better advice to anyone in the SEO industry. Between extra offers in my inbox to ‘exchange links’, ‘sell links’, ‘purchase links’, that all seem to be coming from GMail accounts, and reports of simple Java-script causing pages to drop from Google’s index, I’m […]
Still upset that Google changed the + functionality in searches? Haven’t tried the verbatim search option, or you have but it didn’t match what you were expecting? This is a blog post for you, the dear + lover seeking to restore your lost Google-Fu. Lets say you were hoping to search for a place to […]
I will admit it, I have a very ‘frugal’ attitude towards information and the internet. So when Google bought Zagat it was the first I’d heard of the long running rating service. For those who are web-frugal like me, it may come as a surprise that this paid food review service has managed to go […]
Yesterday I went public and openly admitted I’d managed to overlook Google’s all-in-one solution to Zynga, Microsoft, Grooveshark, Foursquare, etc.. The fact that I’ve played with Google’s ChromeOS makes this all the more amazing.. Google wants to make it possible to use a browser as your operating system, experiencing the entire internet via the world […]
Recently I was reading a debate about link shortening with non local country code domain extensions. If you use .co you are telling Google you’re Colombian, likewise if you use Tuvalu’s .tv or Liberia’s .ly extensions. This issue was fixed last year and now you can remedy the location issues by using the geo-targeting options […]