Google has just launched their most recent service of a long line of services this past 6 months and this one gives a weather report for whatever city or zip code is typed in. For instance, typing in Laguna Beach, CA on today, March 7, 2005 gives a 4 day forecast of sunny and bright...Read More
Search marketing firms Enquiro and Did-it.com and eye tracking firm Eyetools have conducted a joint study that confirms what newspaper and magazine publishers have known for years: above the folder is better. According to Did It’s Kevin Lee, “At this point, we weren’t too surprised at what we’ve seen in the study. We suspected much...Read More
Remember the “Freedom Fries” controversy a couple years back when the U. S. first went to war with Iraq and the French protested this decision? Well, once again another Anglo-French conflict has arisen and this time over books. Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France’s national library is beating the war drum over Google’s plans to put...Read More
The new Google Toolbar 3.0 is a nice step up from the previous toolbar. It has several new features that will make surfing the web more efficient and enjoyable. New features include Spellcheck, Autolink, WordTranslator and Customize Search. Spellcheck will underline questionable words (or non-words) in any web page form that you happen to be...Read More
The Google Sandbox is theorized to be a deterrent to SEO’s, Webmasters and others who wish to manipulate search results and put up multiple fly-by-night websites in order to gain top positions in the rankings. Thus new websites are penalized in the SERP’s and the waiting time is approximately 8 months now to get out...Read More
Mark Jen was fired from Google after 2 weeks with the company for posting critical remarks in his blog, http://99zeros.blogspot.com/ according to an article about Jen in WebProsNews.com. After a couple of weeks hiatus, Jen is back posting again and this time a Google AdSense banner appears on his blog which is ironic since Jen...Read More
A recruiter called Payrolling.com has placed an ad on Google’s behalf for a temporary remote worker in the U. S. or Canada who is Internet savvy and has multiple language skills. This worker won’t have to commute to the San Jose office and will be engaged in search quality evaluation. It is a bit interesting...Read More
Several days ago it was learned that Google became an ICANN-approved domain name registrar. Speculation about what this means has been flying around the Internet. An article on News.com states the Google point of view: “Eileen Rodriguez, a Google spokeswoman, hardly quelled the speculation by explaining that the whole thing was really a learning opportunity...Read More
In another effort to diversify, Google has become an official ICANN approved domain registrar. Does this means Google intends to give GoDaddy a run for their money? Maybe and maybe not. This does beg the question, though as to what Google’s intent is on becoming a domain registrar, especially when profit-margins are so low. Perhaps...Read More
Much as been said about the so-called “Google Sandbox” which penalizes newer websites by putting them in a sort of holding tank for several months until they can prove they are a legitimate business and not just some fly-by-night operation. This has caused great frustration for the legitimate businesses who have been penalized along with...Read More
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