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Hey Google, WOW Sometimes You Really Rock!

September 2, 2007

So when I was at the Google Dance a few weeks ago I met and talked with some of the engineers. I spoke at length with one of the engineers for Google documents about feature developments/requests yada-yada-yada, and he was nice enough to give me his card. I was working with Google docs again tonight, [...]

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New Google Adwords Formula = Just Pay Us More

August 10, 2007

The lunacy that is the Google adwords formula is actually really amusing lately, let’s take a look and dissect it line by line shall we …

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Universal Local Search and Direct Navigation

August 9, 2007

So here’s an interesting little discovery, type the following into your FF address bar
Museum of Modern Art
You should be directed to http://moma.org/

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Reinstating Your Google AdWords Account

August 6, 2007

That was the exact subject of an email I got from Google Adwords today. Um hey Google maybe you might want to chose a slightly less alarming message next time. Just because I’ve paused 99% of the ads in my adwords account doesn’t mean it’s been closed or needs to be “reinstated”.

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Google Blog Crawl … Yeah Right

August 6, 2007

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why Google includes data from adsense crawls into the index right away, but not data from blog ping crawls. I mean the reason they do it with adsense is to “reduce bandwidth”, so not applying the same logic to blog crawls is completely logical isn’t it.
Really just think [...]

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Google Trusts Global Village Idiots More than the US Government

August 4, 2007

Go ahead just look at this SERP for the [mississippi river]

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Blog Search WTF

July 12, 2007

Hey Google blog search how come I can’t blog search for domain.com? What if I wanted to know who mentioned [techcrunch.com] do you automatically think I meant to search for [link:techcrunch.com] ? Why is that important? Maybe I want to know who blogged about [sneakers.com] and not the word [sneakers]. The link command would work [...]

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Google Documents Folders Bug

July 11, 2007

Not really sure what’s the best/most efficient way to get this info to the right person so I’m totally going to link and hope I show up in Matt or Adams ego surfing. In the new google documents UI if you have a lot of folders/tags (they changed tags to folders) the bottom one’s drop [...]

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I can’t Fix it if I don’t know it’s Broke

July 10, 2007

C’mon Matt if you take away the supplemental results label how are we ever going to know what’s “broken” in order to fix it
SEOmoz | Google – Please Bring Back the Supplemental Results Query; It’s Incredibly Valuable
I believe it’s good to remove this query because I don’t want people to get fixated on Supplemental [...]

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Searching for Argentina is Not Safe for Kids or Work

July 10, 2007

One of the problems that’s bound to creep up with universal search is that inappropriate images will start to make their way onto the first page. For example searching for [argentina] (NSFW) yields a cheerleading team from behind wearing thongs. While that might be appropriate for Argentina, it probably falls into category of inappropriate. Purely [...]

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fuhgetaboutit skateboarded

July 7, 2007

Want to see something funny, create a Google document and use the word [fuhgetaboutit]. I didn’t expect Google docs to recognize it as word however I was rather amused when they suggested [skateboarded] as a correction. Must be a California thing … fuhgetaboutit

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Goog411 Voice Recognition and Unclickable Links

July 2, 2007

So I tried out the new ‘map it’ function on Google 411 service, and had some issues. I live in Wantagh, which as the Lisa can verify is actually pronounced Juan-taw (as in Tawny), however Goog 411 kept giving me Montauk. I finally had to key in my zip code and Google pronounced it as [...]

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I’m Just Tired of Craigslist and Wikipedia’s in Commercial Serps

June 29, 2007

If I’m looking for [private jet long island] chances are I don’t want to see craigslist crap nor do I want to see a local newsday (newspaper) article about hillary clinton defending her private jet use. I guess I should be glad I didn’t get a wikipedia listing …
C’mon Google you can do better …

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Comments on SEOMoz

June 28, 2007

Because sometimes things just need to be said.

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Matt Cutts Calls me a Kitten

June 19, 2007

It’s barely audible but Matt Cutts calls me a kitten

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Google Analytics Broken

June 19, 2007

Hey Google analytics did you guys monkey with something cause it’s not working in FF. I can’t change dates, I can’t drill down on search engines, I can’t do a contains search on the keywords page what’s the deal? Anybody else having a problem?

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Google Beats Disney

June 18, 2007

I demand a recount of the hanging chads or something, because according to a recent press release Google is the most desireable place to work for undergraduates just beating out Disney … ACK!!!
Say it ain’t so Mickey … Say it ain’t so …

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Duplicate Text and SMX

June 13, 2007

One of the people I finally had the chance to meet at SMX was Vanessa Fox of Google. We’ve been twittering for eva (ok maybe 6 months but on the internet that is forever) and I think we’re really close to becoming BFF.

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Google Adds Paid Links Reporting

June 13, 2007

Google added a new section to webmaster central today entitled “report paid links”. How anyone other than me or quite possibly my book keeper know whether a link is paid or not is very questionable, but let’s dig just a little deeper shall we.

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Google Trends and disneychannelgames.com

June 10, 2007

So I’m cruising through Google Trends hot 100 and come across DisneyChannelGames.com, and being the disney afficiando that I am I check it out and have to say the SERP [disneychannelgames.com] is whacked out (screen shot for posterity)

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