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Sep 2, 2008

Google Chrome web browser has been released to the world now and I just could not help but download it and install it to see how it looks and works. My first impressions are that it installed quickly and runs fast. The install was smooth. Chrome even imported all of my ...

Sep 1, 2008

I first read about this project over at Google Blogoscoped. Apparently they sent a comic book in the mail talking about Google Chrome, Google's Web Browser project. Google's official blog now has a post on the project. Looks like they sent out a copy of the comic book early. TechCrunch ...

Jul 23, 2008

Google has announced on the official Google blog that Knol has been opened up for everyone. Knol is Google's version of Wikipedia and Squidoo mashed up together. You can create a Knol on a variety of topics much like a Squidoo Lens. You can also collaborate with others to help ...

Jun 21, 2008

Google Trends is a great tool. I use occasionally to see what is hot and what is not on the web. Recently Google Trends released Google Trends for websites. A very interesting addition. You can now see trends for websites that you enter. This addition is not very helpful for ...

Dec 2, 2007

I was going to write a comment on the official Google Webmaster Central Blog but decided it would not get posted so I thought I would post it here instead. Google has actually written up something regarding buying and selling of links that is NOT on Matt Cutt's personal blog ...

Oct 26, 2007

Well Google finally updated the public PageRank and there have been a number of big name bloggers and websites that have been slapped with a drop in PageRank. I won't regurgitate the whole nasty mess, a good read about it all is over on Andy Beard's blog post [Digg Favorites ...

Oct 18, 2007

I was browsing through all of the Google Gadgets today and, while there are some really interesting ones, I have to wonder "do Google Gadgets work to help keep visitors on your website/blog?" Does embedding a game of Pac-Man make anyone stay on a website any longer if there is ...

Oct 16, 2007

How different would Google's home page look if they had to create it for Google, or any search engine really. The only thing that needs to be added is the whole nonsense of the rel="nofollow" tag. You would want to control the flow of PageRank through the site and those ...

Oct 11, 2007

For everyone that might be following the controversy about Google punishing websites for selling paid links you need to read "NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads...Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings" series by Jennifer Laycock over at Search Engine Guide. [Part ...

Oct 8, 2007

Everyone seems to be talking about Google the last few days and how they have started to penalize websites that sell text links, such as Text Link ads. Search Engine Watch has an interesting article on the topic and Daily Blog Tips has decided to stop selling text link advertising ...