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 spam, I [...]
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 don’t [...]
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 saying here [...]
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 Early [...]
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 recognition technology [...]
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a quick note further to my post on wordpress and badware risks; the blog that this happened on had all of its PageRank withdrawn, which has just been reinstated.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 course [...]
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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