Update on Google Sitemaps When Google Sitemaps was released the forums had both positive and negative things to say about it. Some said Google was lazy and wanted a lower costs, more efficient method to find new pages on the Web but others praised Google for offering a solution of indexing hard to reach pages. [...]

Google Earth and Google Maps API After playing around with Google Earth this morning I’d have to say: it’s really, really cool (to use the vernacular). I especially like the way the map can be manipulated and the perspective (from overhead to “3D”) changed. Once the satellite and ground images are connected (on Google or [...]

Google Video Hacked InsideGoogle and PCMagazine report that Google Video has been hacked by world famed cracker Jon Lech Johansen. Apparently, DVDJon (his alias) targets different multimedia download programs and his hack of Google Video lets any use the software to play a video on their webpage. From InsideGoogle : Jon Lech Johansen, “DVD Jon”, [...]

Buying Out Blogs – 2000 Bloggers Post Sponsored Content Marketing firm USWeb is paying over 2000 bloggers for inline commercial comment and placement on their blogs. A report in the Boston Globe states that the company is using bloggers such as Jeff Cutler, who is blogging about products without having used them or even disclosing [...]

Google Earth Has Landed Google has launched its much anticipated Google Earth (GE) makeover of Keyhole. Dubbed “a 3D interface to the planet,” it’s basically an upgraded version of of the Keyhole software, integrated with Google Local and personalization. Yes it’s cool, it’s loaded with features . . . but will people download and use [...]

Can A SubDomain Ban the Main Domain? Yes. It is only logical to say that it is possible for a subdomain that is deploying SEO tactics that warrant a penalization by the search engine to have the potential to spread that penalty across the whole domain. This is the current discussion taking place at HighRankings [...]