Google’s Panda update left a slew of victims in the wake of its warpath (the war, of course being on shallow and low-quality content). While Google has dropped some hints here and there on its philosophies for what it considers … Continue reading → Read more »
Leave Explicit SERP Feedback for Google
Google is on the hunt for content farms – sites with shallow or low quality content – announcing the release of an experimental Chrome extension for people to block sites from appearing in their Web search results. In addition to blocking the site from appearing, the extension also sends the blocked site's information to Google. [...] Read more »
Should ‘Write To Rank’ Articles Be Punished by Google?
Google has stated many times that content should be written for the reader of the content and not to rank in search engines. I assume this would go for YouTube videos as well. It is an excellent approach for search engines to take in my opinion because theoretically if every content producer follows this standard, [...] Read more »
Google TV: Will You Pay for It? [POLL]
Even more details about Google’s Smart TV service have swept the web as its likely debut approaches. Will it succeed in bringing the web to TVs across the world? We first got word of Google TV in March with rumors that DirectTV and Google were partnering on programming for a set-top box. The picture became [...] Read more »
Google Places: Google’s Local Business Center Gets an Upgrade
Google’s Local Business Center has been renamed “Google Places.” The re-branding effort is accompanied by a handful of new features designed to help local business owners gain an edge in search engine marketing. The name change was made to better tie the business owner dashboard with Place Pages, the Yelp-like local business landing pages that [...] Read more »
Google Adds Calendar Invitations to Gmail Messages
If you’re a Gmail user, you may have noticed a surprising new feature in your e-mail account this morning: There’s now an “Insert: Invitation” link adjacent to the “Attach a file” link in each new message you compose. The invitation addition makes scheduling meetings and setting up appointments via Gmail much easier. It also completes [...] Read more »
Hans Christian Andersen: Google Doodle Celebrates the Legendary Children’s Author
What do The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor’s New Cloth and The Ugly Duckling all have in common? They are all the work of Hans Christian Andersen, one of literature’s most famous children’s authors. Today, on what would have been his 205th birthday, Google is celebrating his life’s accomplishments with not one, but a series [...] Read more »
U.S. House Members Ask FTC to Investigate Google Buzz
An assortment of cross-party lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives has officially asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the launch of Google Buzz for potentially breaching consumer privacy. Trouble was brewing early on for Google over its launch of Buzz, with privacy advocates quick to file a class action complaint in San Jose [...] Read more »
Google Testing Hotel Prices in Google Maps
Google is testing a new feature within Google Maps: displaying specific hotel prices. The feature has been turned on for “a small portion of users.” The new feature is very straightforward: whenever you search for hotels in a specific region, you will have the ability to check the prices of hotels that show up in [...] Read more »
Pi Day: Google Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere
For most of the world, today is March 14th, or 3/14. To most, that date doesn’t have any special meaning. But to us math nerds, it means only one thing: today is Pi Day! Thankfully, it looks like Google has no shortage of number nerds, because the search giant is marking the occasion with a [...] Read more »
