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Widely recognized as the world's most popular search engine, Google defines searching to the degree that some people say they "googled" something as a synonym for searching. For more background, see Google news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: September 7, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://profy.com)
Category: Google Other
Yeah I know *enough already* with the Chrome posts. This is a great read though on why the much hyped features of the new browser are nothing new to the browser market. It certainly made me respect the power of Google's marketing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 6, 2008 - 7:25 am
Posted By: stephan 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Attribute-based (a.k.a. faceted) navigation systems make it easier for users to filter, sort, navigate, and buy. But this user benefit could cost you big-time in your natural search marketing performance if not SEO'd correctly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: Maing 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google
I tested Google’s new browser nonetheless and even before I could find out “how much faster it is” I was put off by a whole list of concerns and annoyances.
Read the 10 most pressing ones: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 8:07 am
Posted By: steaprok 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google
People far smarter than I have talked about the web becoming an operating system, and search being at the center of how we access the cloud. What better way for Google to position themselves as the C prompt than to turn the address bar into a search read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 3:56 am
Posted By: rustybrick 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
34 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 11:41 pm
Posted By: eKstreme 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Google Other
A series of questions that I would like answered honestly about the workings of Google Chrome. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Posted By: andymurd 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google
It's got to be a tough job to preempt the internet's collective whinging when Google announces a big deal like Chrome, but Mr Cutts steps up. What has he missed? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Google's has released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Yesterday, Danny described his test-drive of Chrome in Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox and Greg speculated on its fut read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Another great one from Shimon Sandler.

Start off by downloading a Keyword Report for a previous Time Period out of Adwords report center. Sort by your specific success metric (eg: Cost-Per-Coversion, Orders, etc.). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 3:13 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: ciaran 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Final proof if it were needed that Google is now too powerful - they've redrawn the map of Europe and ceded the Benelux countries to Germany... read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
There's a beta release coming out tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries, so I've tried to collect as much information as possible tonight to help us all prepare for what will clearly be a busy week in the search industry. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: ciaran 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Not content with acting as most people's default browser, Google actually now wants to be people's browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess 'so much cash' is a relative term) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:21 am
Posted By: storyspinner 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:53 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Google
Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 6:55 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martinbowling.com)
Category: Google Searching
Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: BrianChappell 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitecreations.com)
Category: Google SEO
"The Google Suggest feature, long a part of Google labs has behavior that will feel familiar to most readers of my blog. But for the remaining millions of casual users, we may see some changes in search behavior. Now, a rumor once again has emerged read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:39 am
Posted By: toddmintz 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 8:57 am
Posted By: mdjensen 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 6:23 am
Posted By: SiteMost 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 2:09 am
Posted By: markus941 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: seoafloat 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-space.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Video of Matt's comments about why they don't mention big name sites that get penalized for playing with black/grey hat tactics during SES San Jose 2008 read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: danzarrella 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google SEO
I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
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