Google News representative, Inbal, posted a thread at the Google News Help forum stating that Google is testing yet another Google News home page design. She called this new design the “clusters” interface and is only being shown to a limited number of people

Most of you who read this site daily are very active Google Analytics users, so you probably already heard the news that Google Analytics is rolling out a new version – version five. Google said they want the new version to make “it easier and faster to get to the data you want.” Google also added a lot of new functionality to the Analytics package. Daniel Waisberg of Conversion Journey did a great job covering the changes at Search Engine Land.

Most of you who read this site daily are very active Google Analytics users, so you probably already heard the news that Google Analytics is rolling out a new version – version five. Google said they want the new version to make “it easier and faster to get to the data you want.” Google also added a lot of new functionality to the Analytics package. Daniel Waisberg of Conversion Journey did a great job covering the changes at Search Engine Land.

Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed

Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.

In 2009, site speed became a ranking factor and Google launched several tools for webmasters to track their site speed. One of those tools was launched in December 2009 and it was found within Google Webmaster Tools under the name site performance.

Google has finally made AdSense faster. Google promised in December 2009 to make the popular ad serving platform faster

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 8-3 to approve an XXX gTLD (generic top level domain) much to the outcry of the adult industry that see it as a waste of time and another expense that will do little to stop adult sites using the regular commercial .com extension. Since the regular domains will still be in place, one has to wonder if the committee’s claim it will protect children was accurate and not also motivated by the added revenue the new domain will generate