Lately, I’ve been putting a great deal of emphasis on security for my PC and websites. Adware, spyware, viruses and hackers abound on the Internet so it only makes sense to at least have a firewall and good virus software on one’s PC. Data encryption is also something may people consider to order to make...Read More
Google ain’t no fool, to put it mildly. Where there is advertising money to be made, they’ll find it. And, the mobile phone market is a wide open space right now. This is why Google Click-to-Call service is now being employed across the Adwords network for mobile devices. A person in a certain location can...Read More
Every Spring I dream about a nice, exotic vacation somewhere so I was doing a search for “Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing” to check out a nice little trip to Brazil. When doing a search for just “Amazon” I noticed that Google now has a search box embedded with the results for Amazon.com in which a...Read More
The Google www versus non-www versions of the same domain names issue has plagued many websites much to the chagrin of the webmasters and Internet business owners. In a nutshell, this means that Google sees www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as two different websites with different pages that don’t perfectly match and penalizes the site for having...Read More
U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has sent a subpoena to Google to compel Google to turn over data in the form of search queries conducted on the Google search engine. So far, Yahoo and MSN have complied with their own separate subpoenas, but Google has refused. The U. S. Attorney General’s office has issued...Read More
Well, it’s the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the next quarter. So, this typically means that a Google PR update is imminent. By all accounts, right now, though, all looks quite on the Google-front. On a separate note, it appears that the Big Daddy update at Google / AOL has also...Read More
I’ve heard a lot of discussion recently on whether there is indeed a duplicate content penalty within the search engines, particularly Google. The short answer for me is yes, under some circumstances. Some critics have pointed out that the duplicate content penalty is merely a myth and that a search engine such as Google wouldn’t...Read More
Google has started to pilot a new quality program aimed at alerting webmasters when their websites are outside of Google’s guidelines. Matt Cutts, unofficial spokesman for Google, has an article on his blog outlining the new program. The Google Quality Program for lack of a better name is aiming to inform webmasters about parts of...Read More
Google and TopCoder are collaborating to offer Google Code Jam 2005, where the world’s top programmers compete for cash and recognition. With a prize purse at $155,000 (who picked this figure?), 100 participants from around the world will compete in the final rounds by solving programming problems and breaking each others code. This Code Warrior...Read More
Google has just completed its newest Page Rank and Back Links update. Some have gained PR and some have lost it, which is typical. What is not typical is that many sites that have done active link-building in the past 3 months have actually lost many of their Google back links. What up with that?...Read More
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