Archive for September, 2010

Google Celebrates Their 12th Birthday

2010/09/27

Today is Google’s 12th Birthday. They have a special Google Doodle or logo made by Wayne Thiebaud, a well known painter known for painting cakes. Thiebaud was born on November 15, 1920, in less than 2 months he turns 90….

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Google Sues Rogue Drug Companies

2010/09/27

Google is suing “rogue pharmacies” who use their search engine ad system to scam searchers. Google explained: It’s been an ongoing, escalating cat-and-mouse game—as we and others build new safeguards and guidelines, rogue online pharmacies always try new tactics to…

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Minor Google Ranking Update (September 2010)?

2010/09/27

There are a bunch of random threads in the Google Webmaster Help Forums as well as two WebmasterWorld discussion ranking changes. The ranking changes may be specific to a subset of sites or a larger but still not major ranking…

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Major Google Maps Business Listing (Places) Issues

2010/09/27

There are many complaints in the Google Places Forums from business owners who aren’t seeing their business listings in Google Maps appear correctly.

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Wolfram Alpha App Coming To Android

2010/09/27

Wolfram Alpha announced a native Android app is on its way to the Google mobile operating system, Android.

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Google Webmaster Tools Login Bug: Too Many Redirects

2010/09/27

Some of you who tried to login to Google Webmaster Tools over the weekend may have been out of luck. There were many reports of login errors for the Webmaster Tools system

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Google Turns 12 Years Old Today

2010/09/27

Today is Google’s 12th birthday and to celebrate, Google has posted a special Google birthday logo cake. The birthday cake was designed by Wayne Thiebaud, an 89 year old artist

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Study: Apple Gets More Positive Ink Than Google

2010/09/27

A newly released year-long study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism looked at US tech coverage in general and individual company coverage in particular and found some interesting things. Most of the technology coverage from June, 2009 to June 2010 was positive.

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Google AdWords Now With Single Line Descriptions?

2010/09/27

Rod Hull now spotted single line descriptions in the AdWords ads on the Google search results. You can replicate this by searching for [ebel 1911]

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Scribe SEO: On-Page Search Engine Optimization Plugin

2010/09/27

Scribe SEO is an on-site search engine optimization plugin that supports multiple platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. Features: the

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