Google silently launches SearchMash

Google has silently launched a new ‘Search Sandbox’ (not to be confused with Google Sandbox) at SearchMash.com.  The privacy policy and Whois records reveal that the site is owned and operated by Google.  
It appears that Google will test new search engine features such as Ajax URL menus, integrated A9 style image search, and the ability for [...]

Google Talk is now open for all

Google reecently announced that their flagship Instant Messenger - Google Talk, is now available for anyone to try. It is no more necessary to have a Gmail account to try Google Talk. All you need is an email address; you can login to Google Talk with any non Google accounts too (of course with some limitations compared to [...]

Happy Birthday Google

Google is celebrating its 8th birthday on 27th September with the delicous birthday cake logo shown above. It looks like that the birthday cake has only five candles. but Google’s Matt Cutts explains that it’s because they are the Roman numerals VIII to mean eight.
Well, it feels like only yesterday we were all visiting the [...]

There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. Search engine giant Google was granted a new patent last Tuesday, August 22, 2006 . The title is “System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results“. And here is a brief [...]

In the search engine world, the Google Page Rank (PR) measure is closely watched by all those who want to get into top positions in Google’s search results. PR is one of the most important factors that Google uses to determine its ranking results.
The theory behind Google PR is quite simple. The more relevant back links a website [...]

Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of information about how they rank your web site. Some of it you could come as a surprise for you
How many years did you register your domain name for?
If it was only one year then Google could hold that against you.
Why?
Because majority of the [...]

Google has dropped BMW Germany from its search engine after realizing the top car manufacturer’s German website (bmw.de) was breaching its guidelines by artificially boosting its popularity ranking.
Investigations by Google found that BMW’s German website manipulated search engine results to ensure top ranking when users searched for the keyword “used car.”   Redirects using Javascript was the reason that [...]

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