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Archive for October 2005

October 20th, 2005

Google Updates IBL’s and PR

On Monday we reported about Google’s latest update. On Wednesday, we even had a name for this baby. Well, today came the last part of the update, PR and IBL’s. Based on prior updates, you are about to see flactuations in those resolts for a couple of weeks now util it all gets stablized.
In my […]

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October 19th, 2005

All About Update Jagger, and Contacting Google

It’s been a couple of days since Google’s update, and it now has an official name: Update Jagger…
Matt Cutts, has a rundown of instructions for those who have been affected by the updates. It covers:

Reporting spam in Google’s index
Reporting non-spam issues or problems in Google’s index
You think your site has been penalized
You see a low-quality […]

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October 18th, 2005

How Do You Call GMail in the UK? GoogleMail

It seem as if Google had decided to drop it’s Gmail address in the UK. This is after a trademark dispute with a local company. It had the same issues a while back in Germany and had to give up that address as well. So from now on Gmail UK is Google Mail…
Following a trademark […]

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October 18th, 2005

Where on Earth and Y!

Yahoo! reports today that they have acquired WhereonEarth,

In an offline world 80-90% of purchases happen within 8-10 miles of your home. We believe this will carry over into the online world and in an increasingly personalized internet, users should expect their search results to reflect their lives more precisely. Same for advertisers – they need […]

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October 17th, 2005

Google Hacks - Hacks and Code Now Online

O’Reilly has added more information to it’s Google Hacks webpage. You can now find several hacks in their entirety as well as all the appropriate codes for all advanced hacks listed in the book.
The Google Hacks book(associate link) itself outlines 100 “tips and tools for smarter searching”, some are more advanced than others. When initially […]

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October 17th, 2005

Google is Updating, New PR & IBL Update Ahead

Reports of a new Google update have been flowing through the weekend, and while many seo’s report of loss in ranking for their client’s sites, others complain about loss in ranking for their own seo service sites as well.
This update has been confirmed by Matt Cutts of Google which mentioned that Google is making efforts […]

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October 14th, 2005

10 Tips to the Top of Search Engines

For those of you interested in optimizing your sites for better search engine results, this article posted by Jill Whalen, has a lot of good tips about the very basics of setting a site for search engine success.

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October 14th, 2005

Yahoo! Blogs as a Part of it’s News Search

Following last week’s predictions of Yahoo adding blog search service, it did add this week blog results but with a twist. It is now added to the regular news search as additional results.
Yahoo! has revamped it’s news search and added the blog search results on the right, so a search for “search engines” would yield […]

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October 13th, 2005

Google Now Wants a Piece of AOL & Registers Some Strange Domain Name

Financial Times reports today that Google had teamed up with Comcast to “take a joint minority stake in Time Warner’s AOL internet portal unit.”
While they were on it, they aparently wanted to make sure that no one can own the domain GoogleMotherFucker.com and registered it to their name. This domains joins a long list of […]

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October 12th, 2005

My Search History Tagging - New from Google

Google has introduced this week a new tagging feature on it’s ‘My search history’ page, allowing users to quickly tag and comment any webpage in their search history.
This is yet another attempt on Google’s side to copycat the competition (del.icio.us), however, some claim that this is another tool in disguise, and that the results of […]

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