My Advice on Google Sitemaps: Don’t Take Rand’s Advice
[image no longer available] I feel compelled to begin with a little disclaimer: in no way was today’s blogging activity here at PPM orchestrated to be a pick on Rand […]
Google-Mining
Google’s databases are estimated to contain over 20 billion objects. This includes everything from web pages to text files, pdf’s, spreadsheets, etc. Everything that has been found by Googlebot, while […]
NASA's Google Earth Solution
An article over at New Scientist covers NASA’s solution to the overwhelming amount of atmosphere and climate data that they have been receiving due to an advanced monitoring system which […]
Webmaster Guidelines & the 4 Faces of "Random Surfer"
I was recently browsing the web for new information on website quality evaluation when I stumbled across Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. While lightly perusing the guidelines for any updates, I thought […]
Pro-Sandbox?
Visit any SEO forum and undoubtedly you will find a heated discussion of Google’s dreaded “Sandbox” amongst the threads. The Sandbox is a well known, but as of yet unconfirmed […]
Don't Ask Google
I just wanted to comment briefly on the recent announcement that Google Answers will stop accepting new questions this week. From my own experiences I can say that the personal […]
PubCon '06: SEO & Big Search
To insure that we got the most out of PubCon, our fearless leader assigned sessions to each team member. My first session was SEO & Big Search, moderated by Jake […]
What Do Search Engines Really See?
A question has come up over at High Rankings Forum about where text should be placed on the page, or if it even matters. Many in the SEO community disagree […]
SearchMash Mashes Wikipedia
While I was guest blogging over at search engine guide I write up about Google’s SearchMash engine. Today I noticed that they added a couple of new features: Image results […]
Google is Listening
Have you ever been involved in a private conversation only to learn that someone else has been listening in. Disconcerting, isn’t it. I’m sure all you Google Talk users already […]
NO ODP II!
It wasn’t long ago that MSN created a new meta tag to allow site owners to opt out of the search engine using ODP (a.k.a. DMOZ) descriptions in the search […]
Do You Really Want to Know What They're Saying About You?
There are two camps of people, those that don’t want to know what others are saying about them and those that want to know everything anyone is saying about them. […]
Recognizing Evil
Back in January Google made a decision to censor its search results as part of an agreement with the Chinese government to provide Google China. I never had a problem […]
NO ODP!
MSN has released support for a new meta tag allowing webmasters to opt out of having MSN usingODP (a.k.a. DMOZ) descriptions in their search results. This is outstanding! What has […]
Google Trends is, uh, Trendy?
I just spotted Google Trends on the Google Labs page. Type in a keyword, or more than one, separated by commas, and Google gives you a line graph of search […]