Archive for the 'Google' Category
Spam, confusion, and annoyance – welcome to SearchWiki
Even though SearchWiki is a very annoying service that adds clutter to the otherwise useful Google SERPs, I have to give it credit for a new hobby – SearchWiki comment watching. The comments are filled with helpful tidbits like “test”, “this is good”, “where does this comment appear?” and other enlightening information. Beyond TechCrunch’s porn [...]
Read More..>>Electronics reviews = spam
Google’s search results for product reviews truly suck hard, particularly in the electronics vertical. To be fair, so do Yahoo’s. Recently I’ve bought a laptop, a new PC (custom built), and a new TV, and like many customers I like to read impartial expert reviews of products before I buy them. For cheaper products I [...]
Read More..>>Yet more duplicate content fuzz
Read this post from Google on duplicate content, then read (and pay more attention to) Graywolf’s post. I was going to blog about this whole thing, but Graywolf has summarized it well. All I’d add is that Google are playing a dangerous game by pretending that they can handle duplicate content. What Google are effectively [...]
Read More..>>Over-powerful domain authority in Google
Some interesting results for the query [airline tickets] in Google today – at numbers 3 & 4 there are 2 results from Bebo, the well-known airline ticket supplier. Hang on, Bebo – isn’t that a social networking site rather than an airline ticketing company? As outlined by Trend Labs recently in a post entitled Spam [...]
Read More..>>Google tinfoil hat theory #1
I’m making a new resolution to blog less about Google from now on – they already dominate the online conversation about just about everything apart from hardware, and really don’t need the extra exposure. However I think there aren’t enough conspiracy theories about Google’s world domination (rofl) – so here’s another one: Google releases facial [...]
Read More..>>Effects of being flagged as badware in Google
Just a quick note further to my post on wordpress and badware risks; the blog that this happened on had all of its PageRank withdrawn, which has just been reinstated. This indicates to me that there is a likely PageRank penalty of 6 months from the date that a site is flagged as badware. Of [...]
Read More..>>Google Pagerank update
Google has updated their Pagerank reporting today – looks like Netvibes gets a nice bump up to from PR8 to PR9, along with Facebook getting the same increase from PR8 to PR9. Haven’t seen any big losers as yet…
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