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• Google Webmaster Central Leaves Beta & Official Blog Gains Comments Google Webmaster Central has officially come out of beta, about a year-and-a-half after Google Sitemaps -- core of the service later renamed Google Webmaster Central -- launched. To celebrate, a new era for Google. The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog becomes the first official Google blog to gain comments. Google...
• Google's Matt Cutts Keynote At SES London A Keynote Conversation with Google's Matt Cutts from Search Engine Roundtable provides live blogging of Google's Matt Cutts talking to Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman during the keynote at SES London today. Matt covers: Eloping, a nice Valentine's Day topic His typical day fighting spam Google search algorithm...
• Canonicalization Made Simple, ClickZ
• View All Your Google Supplemental Index Results, SEO Book
• A Growing Spam Crisis at Google?, Threadwatch
• Search Spam: Hidden Counter Links, Google Blogoscoped
• Google News: Top Of Mind, Even If Not Top Of Traffic I've often written about how Google News comes under far more criticism and attention than its apparent usage as a news resource, considering other sites like Yahoo News have more traffic. Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog? from Greg Jarboe at Search Engine Watch tries to...
• Google Ads Getting New Google Checkout Badges Since Google Checkout was launched last June, merchants in the program who also advertise on Google through Google AdWords have had little Google Checkout shopping cart icons in their ads. Today, Google Checkout announced the icon will be updated to a badge format similar to the Google Checkout buttons...
• Google Scores Higher On Forbes Tests Google Boosts Its GPA at Forbes rates each of Google products and then scores Google an overall GPA (grade point average). Overall, Google did better than last year - here is a look at each grade....
• Test CPC Site Targeting, Inside Google AdWords
• Eurekster Adds More 'Wiki' To Swickis Eurekster, the social-vertical search engine, has introduced some new features that make its flagship product Swickis more social. Swickis are social site-search widgets. Eurekster has added "Q&A" functionality to Swickis and the ability for site users to add links directly into the site's index. And you can now vote on...
• VSearch: Embedded Voice Mobile Local Search Voice technology provider VoiceSignal and directory services company INFONXX are launching an "embedded" voice-driven local search product for mobile phones called "VSearch." Available starting in March, the two companies described the service in their announcement this morning: VoiceSignal will provide the speech recognition and application software and INFONXX will provide...
• Social Media Marketing Is Ethical! There seems to be a lot of misconception that social media marketing isn't ethical. Almost daily, I come across bloggers who denounce SMM as spam or suggest that social media marketers are poisoning the community well. In reality, they either aren't properly educated or perhaps only see the "bad...
• Gray Blob on Google Maps?, Google Blogoscoped
• Giant Earwig In Germany, From Google Maps
• 5 things you have to search for before you die, Pandia
• More Holiday Gadgets: Valentine's Day!, Inside Google Desktop
• Search Industry Celebrates Valentines Day, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google’s Valentine’s Logo Sure Looks Like “Googe”, TechCrunch
• Special Valentine's Day Cards For SEOs Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and it is the time of the year to show your love. Why not show your love to your favorite SEO via an e-card tailored towards SEOs? Internet Traffic Solutions has SEO e-cards that you can send to your favorite SEO or SEM. Messages include...