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Google iPhone Voice Search – It’s All About the Ads

November 18, 2008

I was lucky enough to have lunch with Matt Cutts last friday, and one of the things we spoke about was the Google voice search application that was (FINALLY) released today. After playing with it for about half an hour this morning I have to admit it’s pretty darn useful. If you speak slowly and [...]

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Google and The Flu

November 16, 2008

Recently Google announced how their flu tracking system worked using data from Google trends. While I appluad Google for thier open discussion, I personally believe this logic is flawed. It’s a systemic problem that occurs throughout Google because of their insular workflow and thought process (see how could so many PHD’s be wrong). IMHO google [...]

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Google Showing Authors, Totals Posts and Last Post Data

October 9, 2008

Haven’t seen this one before a SERP where google is showing Total Authors, last post data, and total number of posts [seo malpractice]

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Google Book Search Affects ECommerce, Is Your Vertical Next

October 5, 2008

Last night I was looking up some books that were recommended to me, and saw my first Google Book Search in the # 1 SERP [Travel Wise: How to Be Safe, Savvy and Secure Abroad] (screen shot below).

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Is Martha Stewart Engaging in a Shady Link Exchange

September 28, 2008

You know there are days where you really just cant believe the things you see. Cruising on over to the Martha Stewart blog you’ll read how they are running a contest and REQUIRING a link back to Martha’s Blog to be entered … (screen shot for posterity)

So what’s the deal Matt Cutts is Martha within [...]

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Is Google Pushing Universal Results

September 28, 2008

Doing a vanity search for myself I noticed something interesting, here’s a screen shot when you list the top 20 results, notice the double videos in the middle

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Domain Diversity in Google SERP’s For Breaking News

September 26, 2008

One of my favorite things about Google is how the show a wide variety of domains for search results, especially for breaking news terms like [Washington Mutual]. It’s not like the top 20 results have 6 listings from Washington Mutual (shown in red) or 4 from the New York Times (shown in blue). Nothing like [...]

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FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That

September 23, 2008

So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what’s it being used for, why is google letting it be indexed, why are 164,000 pages in the index [site:feedproxy.google.com] and why is it ranking?

it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything …

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Google Doubling up On YouTube in Universal Search

September 23, 2008

interesting

oh and BTW can I mention what complete PIA it is to have celebrities muddying up SERP

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How To Get the Google Reader Tag Folder View on Your iPhone

September 22, 2008

I’ve never been a fan of the “river of news” style of reading rss feeds, prefer to organize and prioritize my feeds using the tag/folder functionality. When I was using a Samsung Blackjack there was a “tag view” option. However when I switched over to an iPhone, I got the new graphic rich version but [...]

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Google Adwords Crossing The Streams

September 18, 2008

So I was looking up a hosting KW in my logs, then reputation defender, however Google adwords showed me an ad related to my previous search. Reputation Defender has zero to do with with website hosting, and there’s no way they would have bought that KWD … hmm …

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Wondering Why I see So Many Dates in The SERPS

September 18, 2008

Here’s a screen shot of a Google search I did earlier today, made me wonder why Google thought it was important to include the date so many times

It’s even more odd considering the issues they’ve been having with getting dates right in Google news

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Google News is Getting the Date Wrong on Old News Stories

September 16, 2008

Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market for that particular stock. I’ve seen things like that happen before [...]

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Using Google Checkout Buttons Doesn’t Increase Adwords CTR

September 4, 2008

If you don’t believe that using that button from Google Checkout gives you a higher CTR and an advantage over your competition give me a call I’ve got some beach front property in Vegas I’d like to sell you

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Are You in Violation of Google’s Double Serving Policy? You Just Might Be!

August 11, 2008

The following is a Guest Post from Amber Benedict.
A client of mine emailed me in a panic, saying two of their affiliate PPC sites have been “tagged” by Google Adwords for violation of the Google double serving policy. “Tagged” meaning that Google is planning to take down my clients’ paid ads for violation of the [...]

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How to Turn Google Knols into an MFA Scraper

July 23, 2008

The following is purely hypothetical and should not be taken as advice or a suggestion.

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Google Loves Wikipedia – Even the Empty Pages

July 9, 2008

If you’re one of those kooky SEO’s that doesn’t believe that domain authority/trust is the single most important factor in SEO today, I really think you are either blind, stupid or both. Situations like the Tour De France really highlight the weaknesses in the Google Algo.

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Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on Coke

July 7, 2008

Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on Coke? I’m not sure how sending someone a mini fridge knowing full well they are going to blog about it is any different than sending someone cash for link advertising. Then again you created the two tiered internet justice world we now live in, and [...]

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Google Knows Where I Live

July 2, 2008

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!

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What’s Wrong With A Universal Google Icon

June 21, 2008

When Google switched to a single universal icon a few weeks back they created problems, the icons on my bookmarks toolbar are now … (wait for it) … IDENTICAL. The last two on the right are Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Central, so I have no idea which is which. Compare that to the Google [...]

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