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How Google Profiles SEO’s

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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google’s Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they are in practice profiling SEO’s.

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Wikipedia Invades Google News

June 6, 2009

The following screen shot has to be seen to be believed 7 wikipedia articles listed as news sources in google news (picture after the jump click to enlarge)(link if you can’t see it)

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Why Big Brand Media Sites Are The Real Cesspool of the Internet

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Eric Schmidt of Google famously remarked last year that “The internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives” and that brands were the way out. Well Eric I’m going to show you not only did you get it wrong , but you got it very wrong, not only are big brands just as [...]

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Helping Google Build a Better Bookmarking Tool

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A lot of the time I’m pretty critical of Google, and while I may not agree with everything they do, or every agenda they push, there is no denying that have made the web a better place, and have provided us with some really helpful tools. One of the areas that they have missed the [...]

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Dear Matt Cutts, What We Have is a Failure to Communicate

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Dear Matt Cutts, I know you and I don’t always see eye to eye on everything, but I think we’ve got enough of a working relationship that I feel comfortable saying, that the way the brand update/ Vince change, went down could have been better. Indulge me while I make an analogy to prove a [...]

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Why You Should Be Worried About Google Search Wiki

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I’ve been beating the drum about why personaized search and google’s search wiki are bad since their rollout. Even though I understand why google does it, and get that why they push it’s adoption. But I still think it’s a bad idea, and late last week I saw an example of why it’s bad and [...]

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What if Google Was Wrong

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Earlier this week Danny Sullivan and many others noted that MSN and ASK did a much better job of reporting the oscar winners, than Google did. After doing some due diligence Matt Cutts of Google noticed that the official Oscars page was returning a 500 error which was reason google was having a problem. I’ll [...]

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Google Needs to Change It’s Conference Presentation Policy

February 17, 2009

I learned quite a few things at SMX West last week, perhaps one of the most irksome was learning Google’s policy about conference presentations. Google does not share or allow any of thier conference presentations to be put online … period.

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Google Looking for Lab Rats for Tracking Study

February 16, 2009

Here’s a link to craigslist where google is looking for some participants to test usability for some of their products. Looking at the spreadsheet there are few interesting points like:
be willing to install a small piece of software on your home computer that will log your web browsing & searches
This study requires that we identify [...]

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Google Guide to SEO – Are Social Media Links on Death Row?

December 31, 2008

I was reading Google’s guide to SEO (pdf) , and it’s actually pretty good from a website or business owner perspective. However here’s a quote I found interesting, this is something they recommend NOT to do on social media websites:
involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the
top of these services.
For [...]

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Re Inclusion Requests Only For Verified Sites

December 27, 2008

I’ve submitted more than one reinclusion request over the years,  and the process was education in some ways (what you don’t think you can experiment with that too under the proper well planned and thought out conditions?). However I was looking at something in webmaster central recently and was reminded of something that bothered me. [...]

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Mapquest v.2: Google’s Attack On SoundClick.com

December 18, 2008

The Borgle is doing it again – after Google Maps ripping off MapQuest, Youtube is out to jack SoundClick.

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How Google Treats Trusted Sites Differently With Duplicate Content

December 11, 2008

One of the things that a lot of people don’t get about the new Google is the over-reliance on trust in the algorithm. It’s this over-reliance on trust that puts wikipedia at the top of so many searches. However if you have this trust it’s like having a laminated get out of jail free card [...]

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New Ad Format For Image Search

November 28, 2008

Had to redact the terms (sorry) but here’s a new advertising format I cam across while doing image searchs

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Google Search Wiki – Like Forcing You To Eat The Heart of a Live Cobra

November 24, 2008

Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can only be described as a plan that was never fully thought out and was ill [...]

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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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