Patrick Chanezon from Google is talking about and showing his excellent concept to mashup Google Maps and Google Calendar. This is a natural combination and it seems like a lot of applications would benefit from plotting events data spacially like … Continue reading
Elite SEO Dave Naylor was complaining a bit about Google Sitemaps and I've also been unconvinced that sitemaps really does help straighten out ranking confusion. According to Google Sitemaps my old-and-in-need-of-great-repair Airport Directory has some incredibly impressive sitemaps stats … Continue reading
As Jeremy has noted, microformats are slowly but profoundly moving the web to the open, data rich, info cornucopia we’ve all been dreaming about. Yahoo is clearly the leader as “Web 2.0 Stylist” and one wonders if Google is going … Continue reading
Eric Goldman offers his summary of the Google v. Kinderstart lawsuit, and I think he speaks for many online people in his aversion to government regulation of search. However, I'm not as persuaded as he by the Google arguments, which … Continue reading
Wow, I've got to hand it to Google – again – for offering an extraordinary application at no charge. Google Analytics was formerly "Urchin", and cost about $500 monthly. It's an extremely robust log analysis tool that allows detailed "drill … Continue reading
Matt should have been a reporter. Here's a great roundup from Google's Press Day which happened….this morning.
I think CNN's grades are realistic. However grades are a *trailing* measure of performance and the real question is what's in the future for these companies. This much is clear: All have really sharp folks working for them. All face … Continue reading
The best session at WebmasterWorld Boston had site reviews of nine websites by Matt Cutts of Google, Tim Mayer of Yahoo, and SEOs Thomas Bindl and Bruce Clay. Jake Baille did a fine job moderating, keeping the reviews fast. Here's … Continue reading
Here's the screen shot of the Google sponsored links that are placed OUTSIDE of the "sponsored links" areas! Call me a naive and stupid S.O.B. but I really thought that Google was the kind of company that stuck to the … Continue reading
Google's claims about keeping organic listings separate from advertising are ringing increasingly hollow. I actually think they have every right to do exactly what they appear to be doing now – mixing ads and organic listings – they just should … Continue reading
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