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Everything Google

Just in time for Halloween, spiders are coming to Google Docs.

September 20, 2009

Word comes from a post on the Google Help Forum for Google Docs last week that in about two weeks there will be yet another “medium” added to the search index: Google Docs. All Google Docs that are published publicly to the web and that are linked to from a website that is crawled by the search engines will also be crawled by the search engines.

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Play a game and help Google with image search

May 19, 2009

Google has a beta application called Google Image Labeler which it describes as “a feature of Google Search that allows you to label images and help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.” Sounds kind of boring, but leave it to Google to turn image labeling into an online game.

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Google's New Ad Preferences Explained

March 12, 2009

You’re probably familiar with Google’s AdSense Contextual ad network that displays ads on websites based on the context of the content on the page. Now we are introduced to yet another type of ad network. Google has launched in beta what they call “Ad Preferences.”

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Top 5 Superbowl Ads According to Google

February 2, 2009

Even before the confetti flew to signal the end of the game, the internet was all a-twitter with people casting their votes for their favorite Superbowl Ads. Here are the top 5 Superbowl Ads as determined by search volume on Google, reported by Google Trends.

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To Understand SEO, Get to Know Google First

January 10, 2009

If you want to understand SEO, you first need to gain an understanding of how search engines work. And with a tight grip on 60+% of the search market, that means Google! Here’s a simplistic look at how Google works, from the 50,000 foot level.

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The Anatomy of a Google Search Results Page

January 3, 2009

Natural listings, organic results, sponsored ads, SERPs — these are just a few of the terms used to describe elements of a Google results page. But do you know what each one means? If they’re Greek to you, then keep on reading. When you conduct a search query on Google, the results page presented — [...]

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