- AdWords: Quality Score vs Quality of Traffic
"...has anyone seen a correlation between QS of your campaigns and the quality of traffic it brings in?"
- Ballmer: Microsoft Is Working Hard To Bring Rival To iPad
"It is job one urgency. No one is sleeping at the switch."
- Fortune Says: Google: The Search Party Is Over
"the web has changed significantly since Google became a verb."
- Googlebot Crawl Speed is NOT the same as Site Performance
There seems to be a growing confusion and even mythology around Google and site speed. It's becoming painful to read some of the junk around the web on this topic - and also stories from the people who tried to improve their site speed and hurt their rankings instead.
- Google as the SERP Spammer : Just Isn't Worth The Ranking Effort Any More?
Is it time we call Google the biggest SERP spammer on the net? Awe c'mon the top 12 SERP links are all Google self-referential universal Google search spam! "I get the feeling im messing round chasing my tail rather than being an online trader."
- Google & CIA Invest in Future of Web Monitoring
"...the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA. But the investments are bound to be fodder for critics of Google, who already see the search giant as overly cozy with the U.S. government, and worry that the company is starting to forget its 'don't be evil' mantra."
- YouTube Increases Upload Limit To 15 Minutes
"if you're uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, you'll have to go into 'My Videos' and delete it before attempting to upload it again."
- Facebook Launches 'Facebook Questions' (Beta)
"Facebook Questions is available to a limited number of people right now..."
- UK ICO: Google Didn't Take "Significant" Details Over WiFi
"On the basis of the samples we saw, we are satisfied so far that it is unlikely that Google will have captured significant amounts of personal data."
- Keeping Dynamic Sites Clean in the Search Index
"Here's a short list of tricks I've been using to help canonicalize my dynamic site better to undo all the damage scraper sites cause by mucking up URLs with parameters."(-subscription required)
- 100 Million Facebook Users' Data Published
"People who use Facebook own their information and have the right to share only what they want, with whom they want, and when they want,"
- Google Looking At Social Networking For Games
When asked if Google's service might resemble Facebook's, Mr. Schmidt said "the world doesn't need a copy of the same thing."
- Report: Global Internet Speed Comparisons Published
"The report looked for the first time at how mobile networks are holding up in the face of greater demand for data on the move."
- New W3C "All-In-One" Validator: Unicorn
"Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator, mobileOk checker, and Feed validator,..."
- Google Adds Word Definitions At Top Of SERP's
"We added implicit triggering, which means you can simply search for [flummox] and find the definition, you don't have to search for [define flummox] or [what is flummox]."