12/03/2008
Find The Holiday Easter Egg in Google Spreadsheets & Win Schwag (Search Engine Roundtable)
The Google Docs team announced in a Google Groups thread that they have inserted a holiday easter egg in Google Spreadsheets. They said that if you are one of the first fifteen to find the easter egg and let them know what it is via this form , you will get Google Spreadsheets holiday schwag. So go to Google Docs and sift through their functions to find the easter egg. Google did say ...
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12/03/2008
Google Blog Search To Fix Blogroll Issue (Search Engine Roundtable)
About a month ago, we reported Google Blog Search Link Command Now Scanning Blogroll Links . In short, using a link:www.seroundtable.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements. So finding out who linked to you within the body of their content, just got a lot harder. Vanessa Fox noticed a Google Groups thread ...
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12/02/2008
Google Fixes Spam Algorithm Classifier For IFrames (Search Engine Roundtable)
I so love finding these gems in the deep areas of forum discussion. That being said, let me share with you what I found. A Google Groups thread has a response from Matt Cutts of Google, basically explaining their was a bug in Google's algorithm for detecting, what I understand to be, a form of content spam due to an IFrame. The site in question is atlasshrugs.com and Matt Cutts said: Hi, ...
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12/02/2008
Site Downtime & Worried About Google? Return 503 Status Code (Search Engine Roundtable)
This is a topic we covered in the past , but I had the opportunity to remind you all, that Google prefers you use a server status code of 503, when your site is going down for maintenance. Googler, JohnMu, reminds us in a Google Groups thread that the best way to let Google know your site is temporarily offline is to return a 503 status code. A 503 is known as a "service unavailable" and ...
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12/02/2008
Google Fixes Google Product Search Data Feed Issues (Search Engine Roundtable)
A couple weeks ago, we reported the Google Shopping (Base) Feeds Processing Errors . In short, uploading your products to Google Base might have had major delay issues, depending on the size of that data file. Now, a Google representative, has said the issues are now fixed. The Google Base Guy said in a Google Groups thread: A feed processing issue has affected feeds that were uploaded ...
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12/04/2008
Google Earth Releases Browser Plugin for OS X (PC World)
While Google Earth came out for the iPhone in late October, that was pretty cool. But what's even cooler is the fact that...
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12/04/2008
Google Earth releases browser plugin for OS X (Macworld)
Now you can fly around the world, Google Earth-style, without leaving the comfort of your browser.
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12/04/2008
Google Blog Search Indexing Content Differently (WebProNews)
Google Blog Search has undergone some changes in how it indexes content. Before, it indexed content from RSS feeds, but now it is going for full content from pages. read more
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12/04/2008
Google’s Webmaster Help Group Gets New Look (WebProNews)
Google said today that it is introducing a new look to its Webmaster Help Group. Specifically Google is giving its English and Polish Help Groups a makeover. It says the new forums will make it easier for users to find answers, share resources with each other and have their participation acknowledged. read more
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12/01/2008
Google's Blogger Warning Notification Blocks Search Engine Spiders (Search Engine Roundtable)
A Google Groups thread discusses the ramifications content warning pages have on search engine visibility. See, if your blog has questionable content, the Google Blogger platform will put up a warning page. However, the problem is that this page itself impacts visibility in the search engines substantially. The problem is described here : The content warning page uses a DIV-tag/javascript ...
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