In news that will no doubt get NASA folk sweating a little, Google has announced they are offering a $20 million prize to the first private group to land an unmanned rover on the moon.
For a company that posted a first quarter profit of $3.66 billion, $20 million is a drop in the water, [...]
Who Sees Ads? is a brilliant plugin for controlling when and how your ads are displayed. Using the following predefined rules you are able to specify whether ads should be displayed or not.
If a visitor comes from a search engine.
If a visitor is a regular reader.
If the post is older than a certain number [...]
I installed the SERPs Finder tool a while ago but I’ve only recently started to use it on a daily basis. The Sitening SERP Tracker has been the main resource I’ve relied on in the past and while it is useful for tracking search rank over a period of time, I’ve found that it [...]
I’ve always found it odd that Google Reader has no search functionality. With search being Google’s bread and butter it is beyond me why their feed reader doesn’t have even the most basic search capability.
After looking for a solution, the best I could come up with is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It’s options [...]
Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing has created a neat extension for Firefox called Google Global. It allows you to quickly switch to search results from a different country without changing URL’s or manually appending search strings.
If you’re like me and are constantly checking search results from different countries then this plugin will come in [...]
Google cologne would make for a cool collectible. I don’t know where it’s being sold but I’d love to get my hands on a bottle.
What does Google smell like? I’m guessing fresh hundred dollar bills.
[via TecnoCHICA]
Everybody wants more search engine traffic. It helps grow your readership, it converts well monetarily, and it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling when you check your stats.
However, like many bloggers out there you probably aren’t getting as much love from Google as you’d like. Here are some possible reasons why.
There is an interesting thread over at the Webmaster World forums containing a comprehensive, but not quite complete, list of Google’s acquisitions over the years, as well as links to press releases and discussion for each.
The timeline starts in February of 2001 when Google acquired a Usenet discussion service and various other assets from [...]
Google has previously said that the only way to turn off personalized search results was by logging out. Well it turns out that’s not the case.
According to Matt Cutts, all you have to do to bypass personalized results is add “&pws=0″ to the end of a search string.
For example, assuming you are logged in, [...]
On a whim I went and checked out how my blog ranked in Google Blog Search and was surprised to find I didn’t rank nearly as well for the terms I normally rank for. I don’t use Google Blog Search so I wasn’t aware that its ranking mechanism was different from Google Web Search.
After [...]
