Recent Search Engine share as published by comScore puts Google at 43.7% followed by Yahoo at 28.8% and MSN at 12.8%. And in some countries like Japan, Google is still at # 10 position, the top position being enjoyed by Yahoo.  Though most SEOs or website owners concentrate primarily on optimizing their sites for Google, we can not […]

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The new Firefox 2 now incorporates ‘Google Suggest’ which you can find in the search block at the top right of the browser. This new feature can have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your website for search engines.
The Google Suggest tool was launched way back in December 2004; however it was […]

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Big search engines such as Yahoo! and Live Search had several announcements in the past few months about how people can build their own custom search engines. Google has finally joined the party yesterday with their own offering Google Co-op - a customised search engine service which allows users to create a search engine containing only specific […]

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Many websites use Javascript these days in their code. Javascript can definitely make your web pages more exciting, dynamic and interesting for the user, but it can certainly harm your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts.
Most search engines do not interpret Javascript, and those that do interpret Javascript mainly want to find if your site is using sneaky redirects […]

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  The author of Read /Write Web claims that 2007 will be ‘make it or break it’ year for RSS. RSS is already making waves through Yahoo Mail Beta, Google Reader, and MySpace Widget Platform.  Microsoft is expected to release the new version of internet explorer IE7 soon. RSS integrated into IE7 and Outlook 2007 will […]

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The rumors of YouTube acquisition are finally over, and the winner is Google which really isn’t that big of a surprise. Today Google bought the King of online Video - YouTube for $1.65 Billion in a pure stock transaction throgh an official press release.
Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media […]

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Google has recently announced the facility of pinging Google Blog Search (Google’s search service dedicated to the blogosphere), in order to get Google to re-crawl and re-index your blog after you post new content, so that your brand new posts can be found by someone searching on Blog Search. As people will find your posts faster, you’ll also build traffic faster. That’s […]

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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 […]

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It looks like that Google has pressed the dreaded red button of  Pagerank update today. The name Google Dance has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine.  The Google search engine pulls its results from thousands of servers which are used by Google for economical reasons. Naturally, an index update cannot […]

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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 […]

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