Category Archives: Search Engines

Google can crawl Javascript

Micro$oft might be spending $100,000,000 dollars to convince you that they have developed a better search engine than Google, but Google’s I/O conference stirred up some conversations about the ability of Googlebot to crawl JavaScript. That’s a tremendous step forward for search engines. If it’s true it’s also a serious game changing feature; one that [...]

Google Lengthens Snippets, But The Meta Description Still Important

So recently Google officially released longer snippets on search results. There has been some chatter about this depreciating the value of the meta description. I have to play spoiler here and say I disagree.
The extended snippet stuff is great for long tail queries, like the many that I do when looking for programming information. Yet [...]

Unlcaimed Money in Texas

Texans, can you imagine being entitled to money or property that you aren’t even aware of… a friend, a family member or perhaps even you might have unclaimed money in Texas just waiting for you to claim it. it might be 2 dollars… or it might be 200 bucks or… well you can dream can’t [...]

Google Maps – My Maps

google maps just got a lot cooler… imagine that. now you can create and share you’re own custom maps. this is going to be great for giving somebody custom directions. developers with the know-how should be able to integrate custom maps onto their site pretty easily. thanks again G!
take a test drive… here is a [...]

Google Pay-Per-Action

for advertisers Google’s Pay-Per-Action is long overdue… for publishers… this could be a blessing or a curse… we’ll have to wait and see the size of those monthly Google deposits
>> Google PPA

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Google Apps Enterprise

google is going enterprise with their applications… as if they weren’t giving enough away for free, they go over the top for small and enterprise businesses. with guaranteed uptime and api access that might prove to be very nifty… it’s worth looking into. >> learn more

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Google Challenges PayPal with Google Checkout

it’s live! sneaky lil boogers over there at GOOG. how long before you setup your Google Checkout account? it looks pretty cool… for merchants especially… even more so for Adwords advertisers!!
Paypal (eBay) cannot be happy about this news.
>> Google Checkout

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Ferrari Pictures

i just discovered something kind of neat… neat for me anyhow: in the last 45 days i’ve received about 260 visitors per day from Yahoo Images for ‘Ferarri‘ & ‘Ferrari Pictures‘
they point to the image i posted long ago prior to going to bed… of course i was hoping (and still do) to some day [...]

Web Accelerator from Google

i’m testing out the Google web accelerator which pre-fetches pages… does some compression tricks… and a few other small performance enhancing twirks to make surfing the internet faster. i’ll post a review after i’ve saved more than a handful of seconds (it tells you how much time it’s saved you over browsing without it)
http://webaccelerator.google.com/

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Google Calendar

i don’t know how useful this web app will be as a standalone product (probably a lot) but it will fit nicely with Googles continued efforts to seemingly transform the software world we have long known as “workstation” based into “web” based.
how many times can you post about a single company??? sheesh G is on [...]