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Happy Birthday Google!
Although the domain google.com was created on the 15th September 1997, Google officially opened the remote controlled door in September 1998.
So – Happy 9th Birthday Goog!
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Securing GMail
Lid pointed me to an article by Mark Pilgrim, the author of GreaseMonkey Hacks for Firefox, about forcing Firefox to use https, so that you know that your email is secure from any person of ill intent who wants to read your email by monitoring the data being exchange between your machine and Google.
It got me thinking [...]
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Sites that use embedded video are finding that oftentimes the page is not appearing in search results, even though it is getting a lot of traffic from users that know about it.
Mark Yoshitake, YouTube and Google Partnerships, and Erick Hachenburg, Metacafe at the Searchnomics 2007 conference suggest:
Upload content to YouTube, then re-embed using YouTube embeds
Write [...]
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Search Engine Friendly Design
More from Searchnomics 2007, Shashi Thakur, Member of Technical Staff, Google Inc., and Paul O’Brien, Marketing Director for Zvents discuss the things you should, and the things you should not worry about when it comes to search engine friendly design.
Stuff to worry about
Include unique, useful content, preferably HTML
Include relevant and organic links
Think accessibility – it [...]
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Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience at Google, was keynote speaker at the recent Searchnomics 2007 conference in Santa Clara.
She walked us through recent developments at Google, and pointed to what she considers the cooler stuff Google is working on – or - the future of search; specifically automated translation and voice recognition. All things [...]
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At the most basic level, AdSense puts advertisements on your Web site; AdWords puts your advertisements on the Web. Together, they make up Google’s advertising programs.
AdSense
AdSense offers Web site owners the opportunity to make money by placing advertisements on their site.
Once you join the AdSense program, Google reaches into its pool of ads (AdWords), and [...]
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According to Internet World Stats, over the past seven years:
Internet usage in South America has grown by 393.2%
Internet usage in Central America has grown by 708 %
Internet usage in the Caribbean has grown by 939.8%
This growth is reflected in SES offering the second conference that focuses exclusively on Latino markets – SES Latino 2007.
Barbara Coll, (a.k.a. WebMama), [...]
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On November 11, 1990, Peter Deutsch announced the birth of Archie, the worlds first search engine, in a post titled “An Internet archive server server” on Usenet. Incidentally, for those who didn’t know, Google acquired Deja.com’s complete Usenet archive (some 500 million messages) in 2001.
In the post, Deutsch describes Archie as
“pretty brain damaged”
He was right, and [...]
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Google Recipes – with RSS
Brilliant – but alas, still no Four ‘N Twenty….
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Every time I look at this picture of The Gold Digger, from the April 2007 edition of Popular Science, I am reminded of the Googlebot sketch I saw on Philipp Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped months ago…
Is it just me?
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