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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but when did Google start showing ‘Note This?’ links in search results for signed-in users?
I know Notebook launched in April 2006, but I can’t recall having seen this show up like this prior to now:
Is this another collaborative filter-Web 2.0-data collection manuever? Or is it just a ‘hey, [...]
Google Ownz y00
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007The Wired interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt just confirms what I keep telling everyone who harps on the ‘Don’t be Evil!’ thing — ie, “But Google is GOOD! They have ‘Don’t Be Evil’ as a corporate motto!”
Me: Yeah, let’s define evil, shall we?
Google is pure Web 2.0 in the sense of how they collect and [...]
Paid Link Crackdown
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007It’s all over the place: Google is looking at ways to get bitchy about paid links and hidden links.
I hate hidden links, simply because playing games with CSS to hide links from users is a clear sign of some form of dumbassery occurring.
But paid links are a really messy area. There’s a billion comments in [...]
Webmaster Tools: Too Much Information?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007I am endlessly fascinated by some of the reports in Google’s Webmaster Tools, but wonder if they don’t provide too much information for the average user.
For instance, apparently this site ranks for the search phrase ‘adjectives for hate’ right now. Checking in Keyword Discovery, I find they have a record for the query “adjective for [...]
Can Local Search Replace Directories?
Sunday, April 1st, 2007Understand: I think most major directories, at this point, suck.
Consider:
DMOZ: Mostly broken, and they’ve reached the volunteer organizational size where bizarrities and politics get in the way of either people who want to volunteer, or any of the volunteers being effective.
Yahoo!: Listings are by those who are paying for it. Editorial review is mostly ‘is [...]
Duplicate Content & Local Search
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007I have a theory on duplicate content and local search that is insane, but seems to be true.
Based on trends I have seen in individual client sites at the day job, where in many cases they are carrying ‘duplicate content’ or ‘canned content,’ surrounded by custom content, design, and geolocator text, duplicate content can actually [...]
Death to ‘Search Results’ in Search Results
Monday, March 12th, 2007Oh, at last:
Google has added a line to Webmaster Guidelines to ask that Webmasters use a robots.txt file to disallow the indexation of search results pages:
Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.
I really hope they programmatically find a [...]
Updating Local Data for Search
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007During a presentation to members of the marketing team at work yesterday, one question kept coming out from account managers and marketers about creating Google Local/Yahoo Local/Live Local listings, and correcting them when they’re pulling from bad data:
Why aren’t we doing this FOR clients?
In some ways, some of the elements of setting up for local [...]
