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Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 22:20:00 -0000
Geographic Refinements added to Google Search Options
"... "Show options" toggle and noticed a whole slew of geographic options that were new to me, including "nearby" and others, too. Apparently it all depends on what "default location" Google has recorded for your computer."
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 10:17:00 -0000
New Google Message Center Notifications for Hacking and Abuse
"... we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we've detected on their websites, including: Spammy or abused user-generated content"
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 08:40:38 -0000
ICANN To Reconsider Adult Domains
"An independent review recently concluded that decision was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered."
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 06:59:26 -0000
Amazon Ends Colorado Affiliates Deal Over Internet Tax Plan
"Amazon did state they would reinstate Colorado-based Associates if the state of Colorado brought the law into compliance with what the US Supreme Court said was constitutional."
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 04:17:00 -0000
The Internet is a Fundamental Human Right
"Nearly 80 percent of people worldwide consider access to the Internet to be a basic human right, rather than a privilege..."
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 03:05:00 -0000
AdSense Editors Won't be Paid this Month in Brazil
"Payment for some Brazilian Google AdSense editors won't happen this month. In an official note on its online support forum, Google said that "some editors won't be paid in February" due to a "processing problem"."
Read More | Tue, 09 Mar. 2010 01:07:00 -0000
Google Reluctant to Release info in Viacom Case
"[GOOGLE] has asked a federal court to keep documents filed in the case under seal for another three months. Viacom wants to unseal all but the most sensitive of trade secrets within two weeks and Google wants to wait until June 4. "
Read More | Mon, 08 Mar. 2010 19:02:00 -0000
WMT SideWiki in Google Labs Area
Now added to Webmaster Tools Section.
Read More | Mon, 08 Mar. 2010 16:32:00 -0000
Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes
"The service runs on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system..."
Read More | Mon, 08 Mar. 2010 15:10:09 -0000
A Week Without Microsoft Windows
"...running nothing but Linux for a week. The aim being that as I discovered problems I would try and find solutions, in the hope that these ideas may be of use to other members."
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:31:16 +0000
Google/SEO, Movies/Videos
Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp
In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s
The “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp.
To do it on an embedded [...]
Read More | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:12:10 +0000
Google/SEO
Calling for link spam reports
Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...]
Read More | Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:42:06 +0000
30 days, Android, iPhone
Leaving the iPhone
I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...]
Read More | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:25:27 +0000
Google/SEO
My speaking plans for 2010
Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010:
March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel.
May 19-20, 2010: Google [...]
Read More | Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:20:35 +0000
Android, Gadgets/Hack, iPhone
Finding the best cell phone carrier
Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail. The gadget would sit in my pocket for a week wherever I go. The device would record cell phone signal strength for each of the four major U.S. [...]
Read More | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:23:39 +0000
Books/Magazines
Blog to Book?
I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found:
- Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded comments.
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Read More | Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:02 +0000
Chrome, Google/SEO
Chrome support for Greasemonkey
Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said
Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, [...]
Read More | Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:55:49 +0000
Google/SEO
Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking
Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches:
Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, [...]
Read More | Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:18:25 +0000
Android, Linux/Ubuntu
Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04
I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post.
- Make sure your system is up-to-date:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- Install Java
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
- [...]
Read More | Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:58:01 +0000
Google/SEO
Keep an eye on changing pages
Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes. This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes [...]
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