Bloggle : An unofficial Google Blog Archives: October 2008
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3 October 2008
Google no longer promotes directories as a way to improve your site
Brian Ussery yesterday spotted that Google had removed their encouragement to webmasters to submit their site to paid directories such as Yahoo. For years, Google have promoted this practice in their Webmaster Guidelines:
“When your site is ready…Make sure that all the sites that should know about your pages are aware that your site is online. [...]
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2 October 2008
Techmeme embraces its killer - Google Blogsearch
Google Blogsearch relaunched today with a new design - and as a clear competitor to news aggregator sites like Techmeme. However, as a news aggregator, Techmeme has no choice but to cover this story big and bold as show in the screenshot above! Ironic.
For full details and comparison, follow the link!
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2 October 2008
Child gives Google amazing birthday greeting
(Some technical problems…here’s the link)
Best. Birthday. Ever.
This child posted a great comment over at TechCrunch wishing Google a VERY happy birthday.
[Thanks Nik!]
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1 October 2008
Google as if its 2001
In honour of Google’s tenth birthday and in recognition of how far search has come in the past few years, Google have teamed up with the Internet Archive to recreate Google as if it was 2001! The Official Google Blog announced:
Amazingly enough, hidden in a corner beneath Larry’s and Sergey’s original lab coats, we found [...]