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Archive for November 2005

November 29th, 2005

Google Shows ASK’s SERPs in it’s own Result Pages

Barry points to an interesting result page off Google that shows an ASK result page listed. The search is for Tuxedos and it looks like this:

ASK seems to not have a Robots.txt file in place to ‘disallow’ copetitors from crawling their site, and in fact, I can understand as they could be getting some free […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 29th, 2005

Who’s Afraid of Google? Everyone

December issue of Wired magazine has the above titled article which features an interesting roundup of the different industries Google is aiming at and who is threatened by their moves.
In less than a decade, Google has gone from guerrilla startup to 800-pound gorilla. In some ways, the company is a gentle giant. Whereas Microsoft […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 28th, 2005

Google Base Says Goodbye to Porn

Last week it was reported that the new Google Base service is having serious problems with filtering porn results and therefore, turning the experience very un-SafeSearch.
This problem was fixed over the holiday and CNet reports that
“Yesterday evening, we became aware of a problem with the Google Base SafeSearch feature and we acted quickly to resolve […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment

November 28th, 2005

Google Space, Google’s New Testing Lab

Google, which so far has been nothing but a cyber entity, is officially going physical. That is, it is going to open up it’s first physical location at Heathrow Air Port (London).
The main idea is an Internet cafe-style computing booth which will temporarily be called Google Space. It will consist of ten Samsung laptops, and […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 25th, 2005

Xoogler - Take a Wild Ride on the Google Experience

This is a fairly new blog that was set-up by two x-Google employees and which tell their story about their Google experience.
It starts with,
So, now I was Google’s online brand manager. What exactly did that mean? I didn’t have a clue, and evidently no one else did either. It was as if some corporate biological […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 24th, 2005

Search Engines Thanksgiving Holiday

Ask, Yahoo and Google have dressed up for the holiday, MSN is a party pooper, no thanksgiving there…

Happy turkey day everyone…
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November 23rd, 2005

Google Pay-Per-Call is Underway

Gary Price reports that Google Begins Test of “Click-to-Call” Advertising Program. It points to another post which has actual screencaps of what this feature may look in the SERPs.
Pay-Per-Call has been introduced quite a while ago but seems to have not done too well. Yahoo has recently announced on adding such service, and this leaves […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 22nd, 2005

Things to Consider When Optimizing for Google

Last week, during almost every session in Pubcon the notion of natural linking patterns was mentioned or discussed. The idea is that Google can identify un-natural linking patterns even when one thinks he’s smart with it. Amount of links, period of time and anchor text can very much affect one’s short-term rankings and get […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 21st, 2005

Google Analytics is No Longer

Last Monday Google had announced that their once known paid analytics software will now be sold for the great price of FREE. Well, it is now no longer FREE, actually, it is not at all, they decided to close their doors to new users as well as for current users to add new sites.
Google Analytics […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

November 21st, 2005

Google, Yahoo and Ajax in Between

This is a neat ajax based search engine / comparison tool which allows you to change the percantages of results off each search engine in real time.
I looked at their products page and there is no mention of their search feature, I wonder if this neat search tool is just to get an attention […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

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