Google Documentary: Behind The Screen
Cool documentary on Google. 47 minutes long. It starts off on quite a basic level and covers information that most Google-watchers will already know. There are interviews with Melissa Mayer and other Google people – there’s plenty of shots inside the candy-colored Googleplex. The origins of “Don’t be evil” are discussed – it was apparently a directive for a meeting. …
No ODP Meta Tag
Google follow MSNs lead and incorporate a no-odp meta tag. This tag will tell search engines not to display the ODP description – which is often laughable and virtually impossible to get changed – in the SERP results. To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the page’s description, webmasters can now …
Advertisers None Too Happy With Google
For a company that wants to be more open, they’re got a funny way of going about it. This post on WMW sums up a lot of the frustration webmasters have with Google: “As someone whose companies spend in excess of $300k per year on your Ad Words Program, I thought I would write you this open letter in hopes …
Do Google Announce Products Around The Time Patents Are About To Be Published?
A good way to do that is to check out patents filed by the search giant. To get regular analysis of these patents, be sure visit Seo By The Sea, run by my good friend Bill Slawski. There’s also an interesting article in e-week, in which Stephen Arnold makes a few interesting connections: “But Arnold says there may be more …
Google Online File Storage: Platypus
I wonder if these two things are connected: “Corsin Camichel has stumbled across a page hosted on Google’s server (the page has now been removed) that gives life to a service that has been in the rumor mill since my very first blog post last September. The screenshot provided appears to suggest GDrive works with Windows, Mac and Linux allowing …
Spam Sense
Some make the argument that Google is feeding the spam problem simply by having an Adsense program. Is this a simplistic argument? I think so. The problem isn’t that junk content exists, or that is being generated in huge quantities. The problem is that junk content (as judged by the user) shows up when we don’t want to see it. …
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