Google has started to pilot a new quality program aimed at alerting webmasters when their websites are outside of Google’s guidelines. Matt Cutts, unofficial spokesman for Google, has an article on his blog outlining the new program. The Google Quality Program for lack of a better name is aiming to inform webmasters about parts of [...]
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Google and TopCoder are collaborating to offer Google Code Jam 2005, where the world’s top programmers compete for cash and recognition. With a prize purse at $155,000 (who picked this figure?), 100 participants from around the world will compete in the final rounds by solving programming problems and breaking each others code. This Code Warrior [...]
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Google has just completed its newest Page Rank and Back Links update. Some have gained PR and some have lost it, which is typical. What is not typical is that many sites that have done active link-building in the past 3 months have actually lost many of their Google back links. What up with that? [...]
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Many people have lost that lovin’ feelin’ when it comes to the past few Google Page Rank updates. Google itself has decried that Page Rank is for “entertainment purposes only.” It is well-known also that Page Rank is not tied to the search engine results pages (SERP’s), so a PR7 website can be buried in [...]
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Google has introduced a new beta product called Google SiteMaps. Google SiteMaps is a method for Webmasters to communicate directly with a Google robot that their website’s content has changed and it needs to be re-indexed. According to Google, “Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, [...]
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Google Wallet, the new online payment system that is still in development has been rumored to be a rival to eBay’s Paypal online payment system. Since rumors of the clash have been flying around for the last week or so, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, decided to step into the spotlight for a few moments and [...]
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Google’s Bourbon update started a couple of days ago and as usual, many are seeing double when it comes to the SERP’s. Rankings are being shuffled, websites are dropping out of sight, popping back up. All sorts of small chaotic episodes are being reported. For a while, the Google Toolbar was graying out Page Rank [...]
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Is it Summer of Love this summer? For Google it is. Someone at Google has found the love and decided to offer the Google Summer of Code to students who wish to write Open Source code in addition to partying and going to the beach. The Google Summer of Code project offers student programmers a [...]
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Google has set aside its automated search in favor of a manual search of the Boston-Cambridge area for new office space for its new east coast Googleplex, according to an article in the Boston Business Journal. Google executives have hired well-known real estate agency Trammell Crow Company to show them what is available in the [...]
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The recently released Google Desktop Search for Enterprise is aimed at helping business employees find what they need quickly. According to CNET, the appliance is targeted to “helping workers more quickly find information on the Web, in their computer hard drives and e-mail inboxes, as well as on corporate intranets.” The Enterprise Edition is based [...]
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