The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a YouTube Video of the day in the life of the Google Webmaster Support team. It's a really cool account of the daily routine of the different members of the Google Webmaster Central team.
Just when I thought the video couldn't get any cooler, Matt Cutts whips out his iPhone and shows the viewers how he was reading a Search Engine Journal post by Eric Lander on NoFollow and PageRank sculpting.
Very cool indeed! Check out all of the behind the scenes happenings at Google from this video and the blog...
Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its social bookmarking platform, even without Joshua Schachter (the original founder of del.icio.us who left Yahoo in the Spring) behind the wheel.
Delicious was supposed to rebrand about a year ago, but they have finally "dropped the dots" and are now rebranded as Delicious.com instead of del.icio.us.
Under Yahoo's...
Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off at $730,000.
Google spent their lobbying funds the following political efforts :
The agreement to let Google serve advertising on the Yahoo network and regulation of online advertising
Net neutrality rules that would bar ISP's from favoring or discriminating against Internet traffic
Legislation intended to map the availability of high-speed Internet access in the...
Google has been given the go ahead to begin their StreetView project in the UK, which will capture images from Google cars with cameras perched on the top, and publish those images on Google Maps.
Privacy concerns surround Google StreetView because of photos published of vehicles, license plates, private property and individuals online.
Google has acquired Omnisio, a social video mashup service which lets its users splice and edit online videos found on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.TV, adding balloons and annotations to the videos while also mixing segments together in a remix type setting.
Omnisio, a Y Combinator company, will now join the YouTube family to allow YouTube users the availability of their remixing service
A while ago I did a few posts on checking and monitoring your keyword position in Google with free web-based tools. Unfortunately, the handy tool (SERPArchive) described in one of these articles seems broken now and thus I've been looking for another solution to get updated of your keyword rankings.
SheerSEO is one such tool which is free, has a user-friendly interface and, apart from tracking multiple keyword positions...
So while Microsoft is redefining its Live Search portal with interactive background images, and a search engine startup is hitting on Google's user privacy policy, Google is the meantime is introducing a new search feature which is aimed at helping users understand how it customized search results.
If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign of the Live Search portal. Guess what the redesign is all about?- Background images, which according to the Live Search Team was made to "to find the best way to enhance users' sense of discovery, surprise, and delight while balancing engineering realities for a great user experience."
As if...
It's been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube's doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of months, YouTube's seems to be operating silently with most of its publicity hype centered on its quest to generate ample revenue visa-vis its huge daily page views.
Now, here comes an Italian media company, Mediaset, breaking the silence and throwing a whooping $779 million lawsuit against YouTube for allegedly distributing...
An SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers:
What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What's the difference? How are they harmful for your site?
An orphan page is the one that is not linked to by another one of the site (i.e. that cannot be reached from anywhere on the site) and thus cannot be found by a search bot unless it is linked to...
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