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05
Apr

Google Grading Websites with Patent: Sandbox Evident

April 5, 2005
Employees of Google have filed a patent with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (#20050071741) that outlines how Google is using or will use historical data to rank websites. This pending patent gives credence to the Google Sandbox theory, in that historical data is being used to determine a website’s ranking in the search...
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28
Mar

French Flogging Fries Folks at Google

March 28, 2005
An article in InADaily.com says the Google is backing off from a lawsuit filed by Agence France Presse. In an earlier blog story that I posted a week ago titled, “French Fries Google With Copyright Lawsuit Again” I pointed out that Agence France Presse (AFP) had filed a $17.5 million lawsuit against the California search...
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25
Mar

Google SERP’s Burp, PR and Back Links Updating

March 25, 2005
Well, its that time of the year again, the end of the first quarter and strange oddities are happening with Google. The SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) are burping, bouncing and bandying about as they have tended to do every quarter now for the past year or so. In the SEO forums, there is quite...
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21
Mar

French Fries Google With Copyright Lawsuit Again

March 21, 2005
First, it was the French flap over Google putting great books of the world (including French) online, then it was the French AdSense publishers threatening to boycott Google, and now Agence France Presse (AFP) is suing Google for indexing their news pages. This Rabbit Redux copyright lawsuit means AFP wants Google to stop showing snippets...
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12
Mar

Google Sandbox MSN Sandbox Like Night and Day

March 12, 2005
Both Google and MSN each have their respected sandboxes though the difference between them is like night and day. The Google Sandbox is an unofficial name dubbed by those outside of Google for where new websites go to languish for the next 8 months until they suddenly pop up into the rankings. The MSN Sandbox...
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10
Mar

Google Formally Goes Black Hat and Cloak

March 10, 2005
On a thread in Threadwatch.org it was pointed out by Adam C that Google may be using black hat techniques such as cloaking and keyword stuffing in order to achieve high rankings for its own pages. If this is true, then it violates Google’s own Terms of Service agreement. I wonder if this means that...
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07
Mar

Google TV: Coming Soon to a PC Near You

March 7, 2005
Google has just launched their most recent service of a long line of services this past 6 months and this one gives a weather report for whatever city or zip code is typed in. For instance, typing in Laguna Beach, CA on today, March 7, 2005 gives a 4 day forecast of sunny and bright...
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03
Mar

Tracking Tools Check Out Google’s Eye Candy

March 3, 2005
Search marketing firms Enquiro and Did-it.com and eye tracking firm Eyetools have conducted a joint study that confirms what newspaper and magazine publishers have known for years: above the folder is better. According to Did It’s Kevin Lee, “At this point, we weren’t too surprised at what we’ve seen in the study. We suspected much...
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22
Feb

Google Books War Cry From French Librarian

February 22, 2005
Remember the “Freedom Fries” controversy a couple years back when the U. S. first went to war with Iraq and the French protested this decision? Well, once again another Anglo-French conflict has arisen and this time over books. Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France’s national library is beating the war drum over Google’s plans to put...
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17
Feb

New Google Toolbar 3.0 beta Blocker or Blockbuster?

February 17, 2005
The new Google Toolbar 3.0 is a nice step up from the previous toolbar. It has several new features that will make surfing the web more efficient and enjoyable. New features include Spellcheck, Autolink, WordTranslator and Customize Search. Spellcheck will underline questionable words (or non-words) in any web page form that you happen to be...
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