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Google Updates Terminology Of Last Visit Date In Cache Results

Vanessa Fox posted an update at the Google Webmaster Central Blog on what the date and time displayed on the Google Cache page really means. The date displayed…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Sep 2006

Industry

Google Opens Tesseract OCR Software

The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software to the open source community. OCR, optical character recognition,…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Sep 2006

Industry

Bringo Click To Call Service Attempts To Help Consumers Foil Voice Response Systems

If you’re a credit card issuer, a cell phone carrier or an airline you use IVR (interactive voice response) phone trees to…

By Greg Sterling · 04 Sep 2006

Industry

Google Says They Will Give Brazil Orkut Data

The Washington Post reports that Google will give over the Orkut data of specific users including; IP addresses with time and date…

By Barry Schwartz · 04 Sep 2006

Industry

Google Images Labeler: Google’s Challenge To Flickr?

Google Blogoscoped spotted the Google Image Labeler game, designed to help Google improve its image search results through tagging. It feels like…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Sep 2006

Industry

How Google Handles Accented Characters

Last night WebmasterRadio.FM aired a show with Vanessa Fox and Matt Cutts of Google, they talked about so many good things including…

By Barry Schwartz · 01 Sep 2006

Industry

Google Uses AdWords Conversion Data To Fight AdSense Fraud?

ShoeMoney blogged that at the Arbitrage Issues session at SES San Jose, during Q&A time, Kim Malone of Google said that the…

By Barry Schwartz · 31 Aug 2006

SEO

Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently

Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex…

By Danny Sullivan · 31 Aug 2006

Industry

Keywords In URL May Help Rankings, Google’s Matt Cutts Says

The hotly debated SEO topic of, does having keywords in your file names help with your rankings, will probably start all over…

By Barry Schwartz · 31 Aug 2006

Industry

Google AdSense Sued by Suspended Publisher

Steve Bryant at eWeek reports that a woman has sued Google after she was suspended from the program for clicking on her…

By Jennifer Slegg · 31 Aug 2006

Industry

The Taming of the Bots

All savvy search engine marketers know how to create a search-friendly site that can be easily read by a search engine spider,…

By Tony Wright · 30 Aug 2006

Industry

Matt Cutts & Vanessa Fox On WebmasterRadio.FM Thursday AT 1PM (PST)

Vanessa Fox just posted at the Google Webmaster Central Blog that she and Matt Cutts of Google will be live on WebmasterRadio’s…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Aug 2006

Industry

Windows Live QnA Beta Now Live

The Windows Live QnA Blog announced the other day that Windows Live QnA is now a public beta, meaning you can test…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Aug 2006

Industry

Download Books For Free From Google Book Search

Google is now offering free, downloadable versions of public domain books that you can find in Google Book search. Unfortunately, there’s no…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 Aug 2006

Industry

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board Of Directors

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s looking for another small company to help run — this time, Apple. He’s just been elected to Apple’s…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 Aug 2006

Industry

Generating Buzz With Link Baiting and Viral Campaigns

What do you get when you come up with a great idea on the web, whether it be something resourceful, something useful,…

By David Wallace · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

Google, Favored Sites, and Editorial Opinion

There’s a lot of blog coverage of a new patent from Google, System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking…

By Bill Slawski · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

EBay-Google PPCall Deal: More Than Meets The Eye

Barry posted earlier about the reported Google-eBay AdSense and “Click to Call” deal. The press stories were somewhat vague and incorrectly implied…

By Greg Sterling · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

Google Sued Over Personalized Search Patent

Yonhap News reports that Park & Opc Co., a South Korean ISP, is suing Google over a patent dispute. Park & Opc…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

Google Seeks Offices In Seattle Again

The Seattle Pi reports that Google is seeking new office space in Seattle. Google is highly expected to sign a lease for…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

eBay Signs International Paid Search Deal With Google

The Wall Street Journal reports that eBay has reached a deal with Google to offer up paid search ads “on eBay’s auction…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

Google Has Too Much Money, Possibly Classified As Investment Fund

Bloomberg reports and the Wall Street Journal reports that Google has asked the SEC for an exception to a rule that would…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Aug 2006

Local

Google Maps Inline With Search Results

Philipp Lenssen spotted someone who captured Google inserting a plus sign in the search results, when you click on that plus sign,…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Aug 2006

Analytics

Hitwise: Google & Yahoo Make Tiny Gains In July 2006

Today I look at figures from Hitwise, as part of my series on search engine rating figures that have recently been released…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Aug 2006

Industry

Gmail In Japanese

Reuters reports that Google is releasing a localized Japanese-language version of Gmail in Japan today. I cannot find the URL to access…

By Barry Schwartz · 23 Aug 2006

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