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Belgian Newspapers Are Still Angry

Posted by Nadir on October 12th, 2006

Do you remember when Google was ordered to remove all content from belgian french-speaking newspapers? Well, it now appears that Copiepresse has made the same kind of demands to MSN. (source: Seo by the Sea)
One of the newspapers that asked to be removed from Google index was Le Soir. I believe they forgot to […]

PR Update coming soon?

Posted by Nadir on August 24th, 2006

A Webmasterworld member reported that he has noticed something that may look like a backlink update on the following Google Datacenters: 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99.

Vanessa Fox announced yesterday that Google Sitemaps has been renamed Google Webmaster Central. It’s not just a change of name, but rather a new platform to help webmasters maximize the crawl of their websites and also to make it easier for them to communicate with Google.

Andy Hagans on TrustRank

Posted by Nadir on July 31st, 2006

Over at Link Building Blog, Andy Hagans talks about the “index issue” he had with Google and tries to explain how he solved it. He recently launched a new site that had a “2003ish PR5 domain” he acquired hoping that the sandbox effect will not affect him. However, even if the site had more than […]

MSN is the most accessible search engine

Posted by Nadir on July 24th, 2006

That’s quite funny: a search for “search engine” on Google Accessible Search ranks MSN.com at #1. Google.com is not even listed in the first 20 results.

Is Techmeme better than Google News?

Posted by Nadir on July 20th, 2006

Steve Bryant from eWeek published an article where he spotted Google News’ main problems “from a journalist’s POV”. While he recognizes that Google News help “infovores” find fresh information very quickly, he’s complaining about the fact that the News search engine “skips important news sources”, and sometimes prioritizes news that’s opinion.

Google launches free Wi-Fi in Mountain View

Posted by Nadir on July 19th, 2006

I don’t know how Kevin Rose (Digg founder) got this information but here’s a link to a map showing all wi-fi access points in Mountain View. Kevin mentions that free Wifi will first only be available to “trusted testers”.

Google and Vertical Search

Posted by Nadir on July 18th, 2006

Google is actively looking for sales people to fill out their recent vertical search positions in NYC. Verticals include Travel, Finance, Local, Healthcare, Entertainment and much more.