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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 »
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Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
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Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
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A Google patent granted this week explores how a search engine might look at queries that contain stopwords or stop-phrases, and determine whether or not the stopword or stop-phrase is meaningful enough to include in search results shown to a search read more »
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Barry Schwartz details some juicy new data Google is sharing about searcher behavior. You can compare search patterns by category, by location (!), and over certain time frames. It's basically search data porn for marketers. :-) read more »
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Essential reading if you want to optimise your Google Product Search feed. Google have released a new Google Product Search Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your impressions, clicks and feed items. read more »
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Complaint sites continue to litter the SERPS for a number of major brand names and the problem is quickly growing out of control. This morning, Loren Baker introduces us to an open discussion on how to combat these negative brand influences. read more »
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"A couple of weeks ago, Adobe announced that it was working with Google and Yahoo! on making Flash content easier to index in search engines. Google said it was using the search-engine specific Flash player that Adobe had made available (Yahoo!’s in read more »
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Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
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Google is displaying images in the SERPS for certain searches. However, the new images are only appearing for a very narrow band of searches. Something I've never seen before. Interesting. read more »
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So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Just like the title says, this may be the greatest sitelink that Google has ever generated for a site.

Be warned, however, because it is quite offensive. read more »
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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Google have the responsibility of ordering all of the chaotic content that appears on the Internet each day to help users sift through it in an organized manner. That is their service. If they fail to do this, they becomes useless, people will no lo read more »
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It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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NY Times: "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes, "Looks like Google's gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. Enter a query like whois searchengineland.com, and you'll be told when the domain was registered and expires, along with a link to more in read more »
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I'm interviewing Google's Marissa Mayer at our SMX Sydney show later this week. Marissa oversees search products and user experience. I'm looking for questions people would like to see asked. Thinking caps on! read more »
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It isn't the dance, but it is very interesting that the index across these two Google datacenters are different from the regular index.

In fact, with a quick query for bank, aside from subtle SERP changes, the number of pages indexed differed - 5 read more »
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Google doesn't like us optimizers gaming their algorithm. They have put these walls in place to keep us in check, thus making it an ongoing battle to grab the top spot. read more »
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Andy Beal thinks that The New York Time is over-reacting with its article questioning the new move; however, he seems to be overlooking some serious implications of Google's "Search within a site" feature. read more »
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SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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