How to Deflect a Google Bomb
Okay, we recently wrote about someone who stands the chance of getting Googlebombed pretty soon. While we don’t condone Googlebombing (the fun activity that it is!), ...
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Optimizing for Google Image Search
Let’s take a little break from talking about the different wonderful Web apps that Google has made to make our lives easier. Google’s core business is ...
Using Google Trends to Confirm the Google Zeitgeist 2006 Results
It’s a new year once again, folks, and Google usually celebrates year-ends with a Zeitgeist. By definition, “zeitgest” comes from the German terms zeit, which means ...
Improving Your Rankings in Google Accessible Search
Earlier, we wrote about the news that Google Labs has a new beta product out, the Accessible Search. This is a very useful tool for Google ...
Google Launches Accessible Search
Google’s motto, is “do no evil,” and its mission is to organize information and make it universally accesible. So the aim is to bring information to ...
Want to be Google Optimized? Then Start a Blog! (Part 2)
Optimizing for Google searches can be a daunting task if you’re new to search engine optimization. While many people would prefer to outsource SEO to other ...
Want to be Google Optimized? Then Start a Blog!
In the three years that I’ve been blogging, there’s one thing that I consistently notice among the blogs that I’ve written and written for–most of the ...
Predicting Your Position on Google Search Results
Say you have a site, and you’re aiming to optimize for several keywords. It’s always easy to check on your position on Google’s search results pages ...
Redirects again, or does Google just have a problem with Authority?
As you’d expect “GMail” is a very popular search term at Google, and look at what I’m seeing sitting at #6 today: That’s a redirect link direct ...
Naughty Google Finds
We know Google does no evil, but we cannot guarantee that the stuff that Google Search bots index are likewise good. There have been known cases ...
Matt Cutts pulls the wool over on webmasters
Yesterday I linked everyone off to Matt’s PageRank post. I figured it was worth a mention because I can’t really remember him discussing PR in depth like that publicly…ever really. But then ...
Matt Cutts answers PageRank questions
The other day Matt replied to some reader questions about PR and the recent update, its worth a quick read. There are some interesting questions like: Philipp Lenssen asks: ...
Most Popular Words On Google
Now here’s yet another Google popularity contest. Remember we talked about “Googleshare” earlier, where the number of results on a Google search can be used as ...
More Google Hacking: Looking for Hidden Stuff (part 2)
Here’s more Google Hacking. There are actually a lot of keywords and operators you can use to look for files that are supposedly hidden by people ...
More Google Hacking: Looking for Hidden Stuff
We recently talked about hiding your stuff from Google. From using password protection, to hidden directories, to the robots.txt file, you can stay under Google’s radar ...
Murder. Powered by Google.
I wouldn’t post this if I hadn’t seen similar before (we love to watch FBI Files). In this case a University of Central England, Birmingham student ...
Google FORCED by Belgium to remove all Belgian news!
And after the one item was removed, everything was fine Nathan Weinburg has the real story. Google edited again. AKPC_IDS += "315,";
Hiding Your Website From Google
Google seems to know everything. After all, they can monitor your searches, your preferences, your favorite sites, and–yes–theoretically, even your email (if you use Gmail). It ...
How to find a hot date using Google
It had to happen sooner or later — Google has officially entered the online dating ring. Check out the screen shot: Dating online has long been one ...
Googlebombing
Now we know the term “bomb” and “bombing” have become quite scary these days, especially with the ever-present threat of terrorism. Hey, it’s September, after all, ...
Using Google As Your Dictionary
A dictionary, along with a thesaurus, would perhaps be the writer’s best friend, next to his computer. But of course, these days there are applications that ...
How to Stroke Yourself at Google (egosurfing)
I’ve always thought that Google, the company whose corporate motto is “do no evil” has the power to know anything about anyone, especially if that person ...
6 Ways to Keep Your Search Secrets Safe
It’s sad to say but many recent events (Google Search Subpoena, AOL’s BIG Mistake, etc) make it very clear that online your privates are not private ...
More Google Hacking Using the “inurl” Operator
We’ve covered advanced Google search operators before and even had some fun with using the “intitle” operator specifically. Now here are a few more Google hacks ...
Using the “intitle” Operator in Search
Sure, the Google “Advanced search” function is useful and powerful, but you can get more out of using wildcards and operators. We’ve discussed a handful of ...
