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Google is in the process of rolling out it’s new real-time search feature; an enhancement it has been trying to incorporate for some time.
The “latest results” window appears on the search results page and includes results from Twitter and other pages the Googlebot has indexed within the past few minutes. This feature is not [...]
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Google has announced another new avenue for it to explore – venture capital – and the project has been given the name Google Ventures.
This is Google’s effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices of top-tier, financially focused venture capital firms and [...]
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Google has announced that it intends to retire it’s AdSense video units feature at the end of April 2009.
The decision has been made because of the lack of impact the feature has made.
Video units were launched in October 2007 and allowed AdSense publishers to display YouTube videos on their website and generate revenue from [...]
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If you have noticed strange figures in your AdSense account over the past day or two, fear not, you are not alone.
People have been reporting a huge increase in page impressions with a corresponding decrease in CTR (click through rate), but overall the balance was similar to the expected income.
I first noticed this last night, [...]
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Google is now including longer, more detailed descriptions on its search results pages for search phrases that include three or more words. The idea is to show the words which have been searched for in more context and allow the searcher to make a more informed decision about which link to follow.
The example phrase used [...]
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Matt Cutts is a big wig at Google. He is head of the Google Webspam team and acts as the visual interface between the big G and bloggers, webmasters, SEO’ers, marketers and everyone else who is interested in benefiting from being online.
Matt’s blog is essential reading for a lot of people as he mostly writes [...]
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I have just received an email from the Google AdSense team telling me that the amount of channels available in my account has been increased to 500.
The AdSense team says this is because I am currently using almost all of the previously allotted 200 channels and they are currently beta testing an increase in response [...]
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Google’s GDrive has long been speculated about and it appears that all of the rumours may have been true (they usually are).
I have seen a couple of posts referencing an article written by Brian Ussery in which he talks about a snippet of code he found in a Google Pack file. The code has now [...]
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Google has today moved the Google Groups AdSense forum to another platform – it is now next door to the Google AdSense Help Center and incorporates a lot of the same features.
Users of the forum can post questions by email and recieve replies via email, you can subscribe to individual discussions or the whole forum [...]
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Following on from a previous post about focusing on a specific task, I would like to mention an automated system provided by Google which I find almost as useful as RSS feeds. It’s called Google Alerts.
You will need to have a Google account to use the Alerts system. Once you have that you can login [...]
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Later on today a not so scary bunch of Gooooooooooooglers will be hosting an online chat forum and you are invited!
The event will begin with a few presentations and then develop into a Q and A session with some of the major faces at Google including Matt Cutts in Mountain View, John Mueller in [...]
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It is quite natural for AdSense earnings to go up and down. If it happens consecutively for one or two days I tend not to worry, if it extends to three days my eyebrows are raised. I am now into that third day.
I decide it’s time to take a closer look
Managing several web sites through [...]
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Google has today announced a new blog search website.
Take from the original post:
Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we’re now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event. Grouping them [...]
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In honour of it’s 10th birthday, Google has released the oldest version of it’s index for us to play with. The index is from 2001 and is the oldest version available.
It gives a fascinating insight into the state of things back then. The home page proudly proclaims “Search 1,326,920,000 web pages”. I never noticed when [...]
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I am noticing the start of another round of PageRank updates on several sites we run. There are four new sites which have been set up during the past three months, all of which now have a PageRank between 1 and 3.
The usual procedure during these updates is for the PR to fluctuate a [...]
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Here’s a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator . This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo ). What does Google Moderator do? When we have tech talks or company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they’d like answered. The user interface looks like this: My team uses it often at Google, e.g. it’s great for prioritizing which questions are most important. I like that Google is in many ways turning itself inside out by taking many of our internal tools and making them available to the world. We use tools such as Gmail and Google Docs all the time in-house to share information, presentations, and docs. Guido van Rossum recently announced that a version of Mondrian, our internal code review tool, is available for the outside world to use . Now Google Moderator is another tool that anyone can use. Projects such as Google Code and Google App Engine make it even easier to share code or …
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Most SEO companies out there have been involved in submitting and waiting on at least one reinclusion or reconsideration request with Google. Not to say that you had a client that was penalized by Google but maybe you had a new client that switch to you after being penalized and you had to ‘clean up the mess.’ How long did it take you to get reincluded after submitting the reconsideration request with Google? If you submitted several of these requests and each took a different amount of time, do let us know. Here is a poll that I hope fills most possible answers. Please round to the nearest number and select all that apply: Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld . …
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Google added a new service …
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Google’s search advertising is the best cash cow ever invented for the Internet. None of the well funded alternative search engine contenders are able to put a …
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinsons Disease and plugging his wifes genetic testing start-up firm. While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal musings in a post at the Blogger weblogging website Google bought in early 2003. complete article
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