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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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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 [...]
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29 September 2008
Google gets search results very badly wrong
As you probably know, Paul Newman, the American actor and film director, died on Friday after a long battle with cancer. Michael Gray spotted that a search for ‘Paul Newman dead’ brings the results shown above, with number 1 result being a story on Digg - ‘Paul Newman believed dead in plane crash‘.
This is a [...]
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27 September 2008
September 27th - The day everyone finally wants cake
Google is 10 today as you might have seen from their special birthday logo or read on the Official Google Blog. Why today? Becuase September 27th is the day Google feels like eating cake.
As I wrote ealier this month, Google’s *real* birthday is generally thought to be on September 7 because that’s the day that [...]