Google is a master of innovation in the search space and while they seem to subscribe to Guy Kawasaki’s “release early and release often” new product philosophy, the attention to changing the Google search page is near-holy. Minuscule design changes at even the pixel level are cautious and carefully considered. And rare.
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Blogoscoped.com
Check the Redesigned Google Yourself
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When you paste the following into the address bar of your browser and hit return, you should find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype test – the one with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results. Please note I needed to sign out first for this to work.
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Seoroi.com
Google’s Conspiracy To Monopolize Online Shopping
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What do Google’s search-within-search, the Google Affiliate Network, and Google Suggest have to do with each other? It’s all about Google’s transformation from being a bridge and toll-gate on the information superhighway to being bridge, toll-gate and destination!
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Search Engine Land
Try Google’s New 3 Pane Look
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That new Google look that’s being tested, that we covered last week in our Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature post? Now you needn’t just read about it. You can try it out yourself! Google Blogoscoped has code that you can copy and paste to make it happen. Check it out, [...] ....
Dave Davis
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Redfly Online Marketing
Google To Become The World’s Biggest Search Affiliate?
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In this post I examine the recent changes Google has made to it's paid search offering, the loss of some visibility in certain types of organic search results and the motive behind the recent ditching of many types of paid search affiliates that have grown Google to the beast it is today.
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Phil Bradley
More thoughts on Google Images
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If you've not read my first blog post on the Michelle Obama image fiasco you might want to start there first. I should also point out that I'm going to be referring to some words that people might find offensive in this post - I've used asterisks and don't really think anyone will be upset, but it's your personal call. Google's concept of images ...
Cartoon Barry Blog
Picture of Yourself in Your Company Lobby
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I had a meeting recently and when I entered the lobby, I noticed a picture of the guy I was going to meet with. I personally found it a bit strange to see a picture of the individual in his own lobby. It is not like this company is a talent agency or something. They do very technical stuff, in a very specialized market. To have a picture of this ...
Www.analyticscookies.com
Google Analytics Filter – Filter and Combine Traffic from eMail Sources
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Purpose: To combine traffic from email’s, specifically email programs like gmail, yahoo, live, msn, aol etc. A quick look at your Google Analytics reports will show something like the screen shot below if you don’t use filters like these. By applying this filter, your referral reports will show cleaner data sets without “one ...
John Mueller
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Google Webmaster Central Blog
GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked!
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How to use "Fetch as Googlebot", part 1 Webmaster level: Intermediate Has your site ever dropped suddenly from the index or disappeared mysteriously from search results? Have you ever received a notice that your site is using cloaking techniques? Unfortunately, sometimes a malicious party "hacks" a website: they penetrate the security of a site ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Italian Govt. Seeks Jail Time For Google Execs
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The Associated Press reported that Italian prosecutors are seeking "six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome." The Italian government believes Google had a responsibility of the published video when it was placed on YouTube, one of their ...
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Internet News
Google's new Advertising Practices
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How Google's New Ad Formats Depart from Google's Old Philosophy , Traffick (Nov 24) Andrew Goodman itemizes the "key differences between New Google Advertising (2009-) and Google Advertising Classic (2001-2008):" One of these is "paid inclusion". Goodman charges that "Google,...
Gord Hotchkiss
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Out of My Gord
Mindless Online Behavior: Web Navigation on Autopilot
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One of the biggest problems with Rupert Murdoch's view of the world is that he's assuming people are making conscious decisions about where they go to get their news and information. He somehow believes that people are consciously deciding to get their information from Google rather than one of his properties, and Google is encouraging this ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
AdWords Makes Product Extensions Available to All U.S. Advertisers
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Google has unleashed a new feature in AdWords and is making it available to all U.S. advertisers. The feature is called Product Extensions and it uses information from an advertiser's account in Google Merchant Center. Product extensions allow images to be shown with your ad. However, unlike Product Listing Ads which are available on a Cost-Per- ...
MediaPost
Paid Exclusion: Bing and News Corp. Discuss De-Indexing Sites In Google
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The Financial Times reported on Monday that both Microsoft and News Corp. are in "early stage" talks for Microsoft to carry News Corp. content properties exclusively in its Bing search results pages. The proposal also reportedly calls for News Corp. to remove its content properties from Google. But I suspect that these early talks may be just that:
Danny Sullivan
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Search Engine Land
Oh Say Can You See Ask.com’s Irrelevant Ads Showing On Google?
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I said from time to time, I’d highlight some bad search results I come across. Here’s a killer — a top ranking for us national anthem on Google that when you click on it brings up random web sites that have nothing to do with the song. Behind the scenes, there’s an Ask.com connection. Let’s [...] ....
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I just finished watching the Thanksgiving day parade which never gets old. Today marks an important time to reflect on everything you have to be thankful for and I certainly wanted to take the time. To my wonderful family and friends which make up an amazing support system, to the new friends I have met this year I am very thankful.
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Www.searchenginejournal.com
Thanksgiving Logos from Google, Yahoo & Bing
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Happy Thanksgiving from Search Engine Journal to all of the search industry and all readers who come across our site. This year, I’m spending my Thanksgiving morning shacked up in a Hampton Inn in Tamarc, FL .. watching the Macys Parade on the TV, enjoying my continental breakfast and getting ready to head over to Dave Snyder’s parents&
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Search Engine Roundtable
Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone, it is my favorite holiday. As you can imagine, the search news (as in all news) will be slow today, so here is a look at today's special logos, themes and designs from our industry. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Bing, Ask and others in the search industry. For the past years logos, see 2008 , 2007 , 2006 , ...
Barry Schwartz
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Search Engine Land
Happy Thanksgiving & Programming Note
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will likely not be writing much here today. But I did want to share with you, like I did at the Search Engine Roundtable, the various logos we have from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, AOL and others in the search engine industry. Google: Yahoo (Flash): AOL [...] ....
Kim Krause Berg
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Cre8tive Flow
Happy Thanksgiving
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From Cre8asiteforums. We wish you all a global day of peace, thanks, family, friends and, beer.
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Yep, she looks pretty wasted and nuts. That's what being the child bride/beard of an insane movie icon will do to you.
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Black Friday just isnt what it used to be (not that we're complaining). Gone are the days of lining up outside of Macys in your pajamas at 6 am with grandma. Thanks to the Internet and online Black Friday ads, you can map out a plan for the biggest shoppi ng day of the year at the click of a mouse Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine ...
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Www.searchenginejournal.com
Black Friday Ads Online for Smart Shopping
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Black Friday just isn’t what it used to be (not that we’re complaining). Gone are the days of lining up outside of Macy’s in your pajamas at 6 am with grandma. Thanks to the Internet and online Black Friday ads, you can map out a plan for the biggest shopping day of the year at the click of a mouse from the comfort of your home. To give ...
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Www.crunchgear.com
The 5 Rules of Black Friday
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Black Friday is almost here. It’s a great time to score some deals, but don’t go at it willy-nilly. Follow these 5 simple Black Friday rules to avoid the scams and wasting time.1. Doorbusters are stripped-down crap
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Gord Hotchkiss
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Out of My Gord
On Tuesday, I talked about the importance of informing foraging in understanding our online behaviors. Yesterday, I talked about how we navigate online based on habit and instinct , keeping our thinking to a minimum. Both of those behaviors are threatening traditional ad revenue models. The very nature of engagement with advertising is ...
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ResourceShelf
1) ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing Content to Select Natural Science and Technology Resources Deep Indexing technology categorizes data represented in tables, maps, charts, graphs, photographs and other figures, allowing researcher to surface data not previously included in traditional article-level index records. Now, ProQuest has combined Deep ...
We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones. Sidebar is debuting its first app and guess what? It’s not an iPhone app-it’s an Android app! While Sidebar’s Android app is built for all Google-powered Android phones, the app has been ...
My friends like to flatter me. I’m not sure why they do these types of things, but they have taken to calling me things like “link guru,” “link junky,” and other such names that denote I sit on the proverbial link mountain with my arms and legs folded, meditating on the latest corporate link bait example to hit the internet. While I ...
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Praise be - Mozilla has spun out yet another beta for Firefox 3.6, the next iteration of the outfit's popular browser, just in time for Thanksgiving. A finalised version of Firefox 3.6, based on the Gecko 1.9.2. engine, will rock up next month - unless Mozilla is hit by any last-minute showstopping bugs, that is.
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ReadWriteWeb
This Monday we're releasing our latest premium research report, entitled The Real-Time Web and Its Future . You can pre-order this in-depth report for just $200 . One of the 50 interviews we conducted was with Ted Roden , a Creative Technologist at The New York Times. In this post, an edited extract from our new report, we explore how Roden ...
Then readers are invited to visit the blog before giving their feedback and constructive advice to the blogger whose blog is being reviewed. Please do keep your advice helpful. Telling the blogger that their blog is no good isn’t constructive – share what you’d do to improve it.
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From the Announcement: Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC. The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute ...
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From the Article: After the recent release of the University’s Library Task Force Report, some humanities professors and graduate students have expressed concern over the document’s suggestion that the Harvard University library system may need to limit future expansion. The report, which was released on November 12, suggested that the ...
I was thinking about the different types of content the other day and how you to organise your approach to it – in terms of both building content and acquiring links from that content. And now, I present to you the result of my deliberations: The Content Pyramid. The Originators At the top of the content pyramid [...]
 
Sonia Simone
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Copyblogger
I’ll admit it. I have a soft spot for Thanksgiving. First, because it’s an excuse for me to bake for three days. (If you need a last-minute recipe for the world’s best chocolate cream pie, I’ve got you covered.) And second, because it reminds me to quit grumbling and start noticing all of the amazing stuff I’ve [...]
I’ve been spending more time lately teaching folks who are new to marketing, and I’m finding it really fascinating. The same themes come up again and again. These are people who had an interesting idea for a product to sell or a service to market, but they run up against a horrid scary intimidating wall: marketing.
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The domain named Russia.com was sold for $1.5 million through domain name marketplace Sedo. It’s one of the largest prices paid in 2009 for domain name. The buyer was not disclosed.
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The maker of WordPerfect and CorelDraw, which priced its IPO at $16, saw shares open at $15.36. The reaction from investors may not come as a surprise to Corel.
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Happy Thanks Giving America! I shot this over a month ago because I’m Canadian, and we celebrate Thanks Giving a month earlier because it’s f**king cold up here and the harvest comes a lot sooner. It’s a 5×5 vignette of us trying to figure out what to do with a raw Thanks Giving turkey. You know, [...]
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