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Archive for September 2006

September 11th, 2006

Where Was Google Then the Planes Hit?

For those of you who may be interested, Google Blogoscoped has a screencap from GoogleSystem which shows Google’s homepage on September 11th, 2001:

Some stats collected by Google during those hours:
Among the top 200 queries on Tuesday, news-related searches were 60 times greater than the number of news-related searches conducted the previous day.
More than 80 percent […]

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September 11th, 2006

MSN Live Search is now Official

Microsoft had issued a press release today announcing the official launch of their Live Search and Live Local Search which now replaces their old search platform.
So far results are very clean, I see no premium ads above content but only on the right. For some searches the top right column features “more searches” list which […]

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September 10th, 2006

Google Local Time Tip

Lifehacker posts today about this quick hack available from Google which shows the local time in different places in the world. Just type in “time SomeCity” and you’ll get the current time at that location.
The post also points to a post with instructions on how to create a quicksearch function for using this option (i.e. […]

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September 6th, 2006

Google Offers SEO Classes

In a move which may be considered as a conflict of interest by many, Google had decided to offer SEO classes to the masses in a class named “Web Manager University“.
The 3 hour class will take place at the Catholic University, in Washington DC on September 18th and will cost $30. It will be ran […]

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September 5th, 2006

Matt Cutts Gives an SEO Advice

In a couple of recent occasions, Google engineer Matt Cutts made a couple of comments in regards to Google’s behavior under certain circumstances.
The first issue covered was the sudden disappearance of many MSN Live Writer blogs in the migration from Spaces to Live. This was a case of a sudden growth of a site adding […]

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