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Free tips and tricks for how to get the most out of the Google Suggest search query completion tool becoming a default Google.com feature.

Who is alisyn camerota and why are so many people suddenly interested in her?

Pundits often describe the Web as humanity’s giant, collective brain. So what are we thinking about today? Yesterday UMBC PhD student Akshay Java launched a new service, Wikimatix, that shows the Google’s 100 hot search terms for the past hour and tries to explain each with information extracted from Wikipedia.

Google has opened up it’s AdSense for feeds program to everyone, according to a post Google Launches AdSense for Feeds. I suppose that a significant fraction of people read blogs and other online sources through a feed reader and only infrequently visit the sites they follow. Google is in a good position to exploit this since it controls both a popular feed reader and a feed management system.

Cloud computing is a hot topic this year, with IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Intel, HP and Amazon all offering, using or developing high-end computing services typically described as “cloud computing”. We’ve started using it in our lab, like many research groups, via the Hadoop software framework and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud services.

Google is beta testing a search option that shows phrases related to a document below the document listing in the search results.

Heads up on the next Google PR (Page Rank) update was mentioned on Matt Cutts blog a few days ago.
New Values have become visible now. Obviously the displayed values are historical - but good to see if your efforts have been positive or not, at least from a trending perspective.
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Google has backed off the Digg purchase.  But I doubt they’ve given up on social voting and commenting in search results.  There was a lot of buzz last week on a possible marriage between Google and Digg, along with posts on TechCrunch showing how Google is experimenting with social search.

Over the past couple of years I’ve heard the mantra that the value of reciprocal linking is diminishing daily, to the point where it’s no longer worth the time and effort.

Even Google’s Matt Cutts has said, “As Google changes algorithms over time, excessive reciprocal links will probably carry less weight.”

Google launched their Knol project. I created an SEO Knol and need your feedback on how to make it better.

Google launched their Knol project. I created an SEO Knol and need your feedback on how to make it better.

“Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas” warns Google as if ask for walking directions in Google Maps. That’s always good advice I suppose.

Google Maps now gives directions for getting from one place to another in three modes: by car, by public transit and by walking. After experimenting with a few examples, I found the that the walking routes differed from the driving ones and were generally pretty reasonable.

Daniel Stickel
new CEO (formerly with google)
WebTrends

Ranking on google

I hear “I want to rank high on google” a lot from new clients.

What do you do if you have 44 keywords in your meta keyword tags and you are only in the top 500 search results on only one of those keywords…

Yesterday I was sent a link to a video about a couple that traveled around the US for a year

My wife and I have been throwing around the idea of creating a mobile studio so we could take short trips…