Entries Tagged as 'Google'

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Nasty Things You Can Do With Google Reader

Since I started using Google Reader I play with it quite a lot on a daily basis. Besides the obvious minor bugs I have discovered, you can also do all kinds of things with it, e.g. spy on people. Recently, while subscribing to more blogs, I have noticed the following:

This is what you normally post [...]

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Google Reader Enables Interaction

I’ve been looking through my feeds in Google Reader when I noticed that my previously shared items have “Shared by: you” next to them. Well, it appears that this is the sign of what has just been announced on Google’s official blog:
…starting today, your friends will be able to reply to shared items with comments, [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Google Keyword Tool Gearing More Towards Organic?

It just caught my attention that Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool now has this interesting option in its filters:
Yes, as testified by the above screenshot I took, Google external keyword tool now offers you to include adult content in your keyword results. This is something people have been having trouble with for a long time, and [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Google and Nocache

This is the first of a series of posts about Google’s tools and options for webmasters – I plan to do several such posts about most popular features webmasters use as often there is misunderstanding of how these tools and features work.
Sometimes site owners believe it necessary to disable Google cache on their sites or [...]

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Google URLs for Different Countries

Those who know me are aware of the fact that I like messing with international markets. Now, Google may or may not be the search engine of choice for non-English speaking markets (what we know about Google’s share of the search market is mainly true about the English-speaking market – elsewhere results may differ), but [...]

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Google Base Follow Up

Well, I have posted a few days ago about my little Google Base experiment inspired by Graywolf’s similar experiment. My results for some reason appeared not that spectacular as his – infact my item is not showing up anywhere except Gogole base itself. But while messing with all this stuff, I thought I’d take a [...]

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Technorati Becoming the New Google?

So the recent news discussed by everyone is Technorati adding the Filter By Authority slider (OK I don’t see it as really big news as there was a clear tendency towards that move – Technorati has been offering sorting the results by authority for ages now, the only difference is the interface and that now [...]

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Sitewide Links Issue

After the last Google algo update, sitewide links are not treated the same any more and it’s no secret to anybody who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last few months. Infact, I have heard people referring to what happened as “sitewide links penalty” – even some well respected and known SEOs with [...]