Become.com Shows Promise
I’ve never paid much attention to new search engines, they seem to pop up all the time. Everyone claims to have the next big advancement in search technology, yada, yada, […]
Google, Browsers, and Bookmarkes
There have been rumors on and off for some time now about the possibility of Google getting into the browser game. For years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has had a virtual […]
Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Quality Guidelines – Basic Principles
Google has valuable resources available for webmasters and SEOs alike. Knowing and following these guidelines when building and marketing your web site ensures that you will keep your site out […]
SEO Mis-Information
There is a lot of mis-information going around on the search engine forums and other SEO news sources. Much of it coming from respected SEO professionals. Most is simply speculation […]
Google Algorithm Change
Many across the search engine forums are noticing some substantial ranking changes taking place across Google. Speculation is wild about what, exactly, did change. The two most common theories are […]
Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Technical Guidelines
Today I continue my discussion of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and what they mean to making sure your site is search engine (in this case Google) friendly. While the guidelines discussed […]
Google to Allow API for Adwords
The Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting that Google will allow users to have an API key to access their adwords accounts. This, I’m sure, will be a great benefit to […]
Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Design and Content Guidelines
Over the next several issues I’m going to go over Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Many of the guidelines posted here are no-brainers, however some are often over looked are considered no-so-important. […]
Google Guidelines
A new newsletter is was posted today. I wrote a rather lengthy article talking about Google’s Design and Content Guidelines as posted on their site. A lot of good information […]
Gmail Update
In a news release today, Google anounced that it has fixed the GMail security flaw discovered by HBX Networks last week, which potentially allowed users to access the login information […]
GMail Flaw Exposes Messages to Hackers
HBX Networks, a UNIX developers community, has identified a flaw in Google’s GMail systems that could allow GMail users to access other users’ private access information including logon ID and […]
Google Desktop Search Security Hole
A Lone Star Times article released today, presented the findings of Dan Wallach, a Rice University professor, and two of the university’s computer science graduate students, who have discovered a […]
MSN Desktop Search
MSN has rolled out its own version of desktop search. I can’t say I was immediately impressed as the indexing of my content literally took days and it seemed to […]
Addendum to Google Suggests
Just a quick addendum to my post yesterday on the Google Suggests feature. I don’t think it is likely that Google will use this feature to drive visitors to higher […]
Google Suggestions, Thumbs Down
Google is beta testing Google Suggest. As you type, Google provides search query option for the searcher to select from, if they wish. This is similar to features Internet and […]