What are the SEO strategies, if at all, followed by popular blogs ? Do they give importance to SEO ? If they do, are there anything to learn from it ? Is it different from the regular basic SEO ? Let’s find out if we have answers for the questions above. Do popular blogs have to follow SEO in the first place ? One argument I’ve repeatedly come across is… Continue reading

If you’re the type of guy who has one Google ID for email, another for Webmasters and multiple IDs for other purposes (or anything faintly similar) then you’ve got help ! Signing in with multiple IDs to Google services was a pain in the a@# ! So much that I used multiple browsers for each, just for that purpose. I use one Google ID for email, another for Webmasters and… Continue reading

I was doing my research on top tech journos on the web and stumbled up on this one ! And I’m glad I did. Ben Parr, the lead Editor at Mashable has got his personal blog hacked. Take a look at this Google search result and you’ll see the "trouble". Ben probably is a victim of one of those infamous SERPs injection attacks, that he couldn’t have known about it… Continue reading

I’ve written plenty of articles on this blog that goes through the length and breadth of Google search algorithms and the process. Today, I see this infographic and thought – this is more like it. This explains visually how a google search works. Infographics #ftw ! Via… Continue reading

So, Google Caffeine update is now complete. It had started few months (years) ago, and had been silently updating since then. And not to mention all the speculations on what it is and how it affects the search engine results. Google have never given us full details on what it is, and how it worked, and even now when the whole thing is live, all we get is a simple… Continue reading

There’s an update from a Google Employee (unofficially though), that for some webmasters the number of indexed pages shown in Google Webmasters Tool for their website showed up incorrectly in the last few days and that Google is actually working on the problem which might have been fixed by the time you are reading this now.

There have been minor glitches with Google Webmasters Tool recently, so… Continue reading

Google Goggles seems very promising, is it not ? Eric Schmidt thinks that it can help you in situations like being in an “other language” restaurant, trying to figure out what the menu is, and then you click the menu’s photo, Goggle it and it gives you the English translation. Sounds amazing !

If you didn’t know yet, Google Goggles is the next (one of the) big things from… Continue reading

This came to me as a shocker, and just like you, I dismissed it saying “yet another claim” initially. But curious, I took another look into the matter and it looks like that there might be some “substance” in the claims. Let’s check some details.

Google has repeatedly claimed that they don’t interfere with anything manually on the SERPs. They insist that everything is “as generated by… Continue reading

Soon after Microsoft added the native Haiti language “Creole” to its translator tool, Google follows up and adds it to its translator tool as well. And Google claims that its translator is better than the Microsoft one !

Haitian Creole language, often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about eight million people, which is about 80% of the entire population, and via emigration… Continue reading

Ever since Google Social Search was launched, I’ve been trying my best to like it, to use it and possibly make it a habit. But looks like its more a nuisance than anything else, if at all.
But honestly, the thing is pretty interesting, enough to get a Google lover excited. And it does to some level, even though quite not there, and in a wrong direction. Lets jump in… Continue reading

The Google Phone is no longer a rumour, its for real. At least, that’s what the clues lead us to. When the internet is all buzz about the new revolutionary concept “Google Phone” rumours, today Google’s official word comes out that its testing out a new concept phone, exclusively with its employees, what they call – “eating your own dogfood”. In Google’s words, – “We recently came up with the… Continue reading

Rumours have it that Google is actually planning for another redesign of their homepage and the other subsidiaries. There are no official releases of this news yet but looks like many websites have already managed to get an inside look at the new Google redesign.

According to ArsTechnica and Google Blogoscoped, here’s the trick to “reveal” the new Google design. Go to Google.com homepage and replace the URL in… Continue reading

The 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge saw 2,187 student teams from 57 countries around the world taking part in a global online marketing competition. And now, the 2010 sequel to the competition is now live. Developed by professors in collaboration with Google, the Challenge is a great opportunity for students to gain practical, real world online marketing experience. Student teams receive US$200 of free online advertising with Google AdWords… Continue reading

This one was no surprise ! And we know that there’s more to come. Google has launched 9 brand new search features to web search, despite the ones that were added few months back. Search Options tools: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news ! To use this option you’ll need to be signed in to your… Continue reading

Looks like Googleplex is churning out new features by day . Google’s latest search feature will now start showing additional info, from threads on forums, based on relevancy to your search query. Google’s words – When several different discussions on a site are relevant to your query, we indent them under the primary result and include the date of each post. It means that when you search query matches more… Continue reading