About a week ago, Google announced the addition of the Blog Bar to its current line up of AJAX powered addons for web sites. Along with the News bar and Video bar, the Blog bar allows a webmaster to identify keywords and publish Google search results for those keywords directly on their site. In this [...]

Ok, so this video is a year or two old, but it really looks like it opens up the inter-workings this juggernaut. This was Pre-IPO I believe.

5 hr 39 min 41 sec : Google Factory Tour event on 5/19/05 at Google’s Mountain View headquarters.
If you took the time to watch the whole thing, I [...]

There have been a number of debates on the necessity of search engine optimization. Some people are of the opinion that it is a onetime deal or just not needed, while others religiously claim it’s an ongoing process that can make or break a sites success. Personally, I believe that SEO is an integral part [...]

Friday, Vanessa Fox writes over at Google’s Webmaster Central Blog on some changes coming for the “site:” search command. In her post “Using the site: command” Vanessa does a good job of explaining the current usage of this command and how the coming changes will affect the results of the query.
Currently when using this command [...]

With all the fuss about duplicate content penalties and filters, I thought it quite interesting that BestBuy.com has found a way to get in legal trouble due to it. Yes, you read right the State Attorney General of Connecticut has initiated an investigation into BestBuy.com’s use of duplicate content.
Apparently what has been happening is employee’s [...]