Flip-flopping on Google
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I do a Google vanity search on myself about once a month to get a barometer on how, if at all, readers are reacting to and using my columns.
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Measuring time on page instead of hits is likely to hurt Google but help YouTube.
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Phil Davies relies heavily on Google for his two online businesses. The search engine drives half the traffic to his antiques retail Web site. But when Google recently made a change to the algorithm that it uses to rank sites, it bumped his from a slot on the first page of results to the sixth. That...
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Google seems to be taking steps to assure that &#8216;Made for AdSense&#8217; sites which are unfocused, decentralized and give no real value to the searcher; are not listed in Google results (again, I said taking steps). Aaron at SEO Buzz Box points to a conversation a web publisher had in Google Groups with Google&#8217;s Adam Lasnik [...]
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These sites employ many different tactics in their efforts to take some of Google's pie. Here's how they stack up.
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The first exploitations of Google&#39;s (Nasdaq: GOOG) peculiar search algorithms were humorous, political, or both. I&#39;m referring the once-popular procedure of Google Bombing, a way
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Google drops its price and shares offered. Its magic: turning the hottest IPO in history into a disaster.
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Even a big first-day jump in shares of Google (GOOG) couldn't quiet debate over whether the Internet search engine's contentious auction was a hit or a flop.
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Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.
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By Yin, Sara  Lori Sobel may be low profile, but don't underestimate her strategy to flip the search engine's fortunes. Reports Sara Yin PROFILE  You'd be forgiven for expecting Google to say more during its first public appearance in Singapore.
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The search engine company gets ready to unveil a program to do just that. Also: Make CDs while you order at Starbucks & hellip;. Nokia takes a Wall Street hit & hellip;. and more.
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While some industry-watchers are cheering Google's recent moves, others are yawning. Range Online's Phil Stelter digs into what Universal Search really means for Google, and for search marketers.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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The logic behind Google (GOOG ) Desktop Search is simple enough: Why shouldn&#39;t the best tool for finding things on the Web do equally well at helping people search their own computers?
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Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements of new product features. Search Engine Roundtable noticed it on Friday and made a quick post, Lifehacker posted about it on Saturday.Â  The new feature is in my opinion significant and worth [...]
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Blog: Travel search site SideStep acquieres travel social network TripUp
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Google has a problem -- a good one.