Image via CrunchBase When consulting with companies about “how their website is doing” one of the first things people checkout is the Google PR or Page Rank of the site. To check the PR of your site officially you have to install the Google browser tool bar which will show you a small green bar [...]
Tag Archives: Search
Links Roundup 07/02/09
July 2, 2009
Great links from around the web: Are you a founder? Great writeup of what it takes to be a founder and see if you fit the bill. TubeChop Great way to microchunk youTube videos Ad supported Internet report from the IAB Blind Search Blind search between Yahoo, Google, and Bing without knowing the results publisher [...]
Search Rank now included in Google Search Strings
April 21, 2009
Image via CrunchBase Following up on yesterdays post about search news of queries getting longer I wanted to comment on the recent changes and addition of search rank now being included in Google’s search strings they are returning to users which was originally written about here. As SEL notes there could be many reasons how\when\why [...]
Products showing up in Google Search ads
February 3, 2009
I just noticed a drop down box near a Google SEM ad tonight that I have not seen before. It could be an old feature, but I have not seen it in the wild. I did some more searches and found the below screen shot showing NewEgg displaying multiple items that technically match my query: [...]
Google Explains Dealing with Duplicate Content
September 12, 2008
Great write from Google about how to handle duplicate content issues. This topic comes up more and more as I have seen websites with different approaches on handling and manipulating content on the web. There are more questions than definitive answers right now, but I am glad to see an official post about this. Anyone [...]
xRank Microsoft Live Search or People Rank
July 31, 2008
Microsoft now has a new (to me) search feature called xRank that tracks notable people and attempts to put them in order for you. In typical list fashion it shows moving trends and position changes over time and maps this data back to events that have happened. Their official definition: xRank keeps track of notable [...]


November 12, 2009
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