Over at the Google blog today Amit Singhal has post 1 of 2 that promises an introduction to Google ranking. As usual I’m disappointed in the way Google maintains what to me is a pretense of transparency while using some … Continue reading
Google lively is a very clever social interaction “environment” that is simple to set up and modify, and may appeal a lot to folks who like some visual feedback when chatting with others. I don’t think this will replace the … Continue reading
When I first read about trouble in Google land over child care costs I thought it would be another case of the how super well paid but whiney Silicon Valley parents were unreasonably complaining about a minor bump in their … Continue reading
There is a lot of blogOspheric gnashing of virtual teeth at today’s Viacom v. Google decision that is telling Google to release the YouTube clip watching histories of all users to Viacom as part of Viacom’s efforts to demonstrate that … Continue reading
For many years anybody who knew anything about search engine optimization “SEO”, would scoff at the idea of using more than minor number amount of Flash elements in websites, because for many years those Flash elements were largely invisible to … Continue reading
Fred Wilson has a fantastic post today discussing the critical subject of Website metrics, which remains one of the murkiest of online topics. He compares reports from several services and concludes that Google Trends may be a lot like Alexa, … Continue reading
The Yahoo Microsoft Merger saga continues as Yahoo and Google have signed an advertising pact in the face of mounting new pressure on Yahoo to sell to Microsoft. Carl Icahn, corporate mega-investor, has purchased a large stake in Yahoo and … Continue reading
Search Engine Optimization is at the same time a simple concept (help the search engines find and rank your pages) and a very complex one (proper use of redirection when changing domain names, Google downranking, duplicate content and hundreds more topics that … Continue reading
Google has a great feature where you can add a free blogger blog to your website. I use that for some other blogs though JoeDuck is hosted at WordPress, which offers more powerful content management features than blogger blogs. Here are the … Continue reading
Google does a lot of wonderful things, including many that people do not give this amazing company nearly enough credit for doing. These include mail, calendar, and document applications as well as great free search. However Google transparency goes out … Continue reading
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