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April 19th, 2008
Mark O

Google starts indexing whois domain information

Google is beginning to ramp up its information indexing efforts to the point where nothing and no-one is safe. In addition to making some headway ...

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April 16th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Google the Beach

I really love how Google is future-proofing their tools. From the start they must have thought of how international the web's audience will be that ...

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March 4th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Quick Search Tip: Booking Flights Online

Here's a quick Google search tip for frequent flyers. If you're fond of booking your flights online rather than calling up a travel agent to do ...

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January 21st, 2008
Mark O

Two Google search tricks for international business

With Google being my search engine of choice, I am always looking for more ways for the search engine to make my life easier.    Today I ...

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January 14th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Removing Your Content From Google’s Cache

Google's cache can be a very useful tool if you encounter any of the following problems with the sites linked in a search result: The site has ...

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December 29th, 2007
Mark O

Disabling Google’s “Lucky” search in Mozilla Firefox

One of the things I love about Mozilla Firefox is the ability to perform Google keyword searches from the address bar.    But the intensely annoying ...

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December 22nd, 2007
Mark O

Check flight times on Google

Google has just announced a new feature in time for the holidays - but I was under the impression that ...

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December 12th, 2007
Mark O

Google imitates AOL - flattery or flop-in-waiting?

I was alerted to this one by Valleywag (I personally don't see it on my screen yet). Google ...

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December 2nd, 2007
Mark O

Experiment with Google’s alternate search views

Some blogs have been recently talking about switching on Google keyword suggestions. But Google Labs has an even better experiment in ...

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November 24th, 2007
Mark O

Setting a website geographic location in Google Webmaster Tools

If you own a website that is reliant on attracting local visitors then until now, there was no easy way to specify a specific geographic ...

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November 23rd, 2007
Mark O

Dressing up the Google page to provide more search information

After virtually a decade delivering online search results, the sparse looking Google page is well known to all. But with a few Firefox extensions, ...

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November 6th, 2007
Mark O

Is Google’s dominance in search under threat from the “upstarts”?

By Mark O'Neill An article in Newsweek magazine suggests that Google's position at the top of the search engines could be under serious threat ...

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October 15th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Testing New Features of Google in Google Experimental

One of Google’s biggest reasons for success is that it has able to redefine search during a time when everybody thought that search is a solved ...

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October 12th, 2007
The Tutor

Killer guide to the robots meta tag

Joost over at his SEO blog has a great guide to the robots meta tag today, everything you need is there on one short ...

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September 7th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Search in Google Reader

It's probably one of the most requested feature for the Google Reader, and the lack of it has really kept users from fully using the ...

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September 6th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Google Book Search Adds New Features

Google’s stated vision is to organize the world’s information. As big and idealistic this goal maybe, the company has gone to great lengths in trying to ...

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August 13th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Google News Tutorial: Search

While the common use case in News reading assumes a passive user/reader simply browsing all the available news for that day, there are people on some ...

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July 24th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Using Google Web History

Google’s search personalization efforts have shown significant strides since the company first started it. What started as a simple product in Google labs that allows you ...

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July 23rd, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Google Web History and Search Personalization

Have you noticed that what bugs us the most when we are looking for information is when we know at the back of our mind that ...

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July 12th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Bridging the Language Barrier in Search: Google Language Tools

Google might have started as a small (but full of potential) American company, but the company has many times stated that its goal is to become ...

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July 3rd, 2007
The Tutor

Cool - Google search parameters cheat sheet

Joost has made a pretty handy Google search parameters cheat sheet that many of you may find useful. What are search parameters you ask? ...

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June 25th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Creating Your Own Search Engine using Google Custom Search

Google is undeniably the current search leader today, both in mind share in and actual market share. This is because Google has invested lots of time ...

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June 4th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Quick Search Tip: related and link operators

I would bet that the average Google user has not heard about using operators in their search syntax. The most common are the "+" and "-" ...

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May 30th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Twitter for SEO?

There's a new phenomenon in the blogging world, and it's called microblogging. Well, it's not really that new, but then it's only quite recently that its ...

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May 24th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Creating Tabs on iGoogle

Earlier, we had discussed how to personalize your Google Search Page using iGoogle. As mentioned, there is a feature that allows you to add tabs ...

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