Google BlogoscopedGoogle, the World, and the World Wide Web, WebloggedTop Search Engine Marketing Tools- September 16, 2008 Aaron Wall is a search engine optimization consultant at Clientside SEM and the author of the SEO Book blog. Aaron lives in Oakland, California. This time he takes a look at the top SEO tools. The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. SEO, which was once considered a bit of a seedy niche, has grown with search to become a mainstream marketing practice, with.. ...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-16-n52.html A (Broken) Google Attachment Detector Feature- September 16, 2008 The Gmail Labs offer two new features for you to opt-in to. One is a "Mark as Read" button, which makes that functionality more accessible than picking it from the actions menu, if you need it often. Activate this feature in your Gmail Settings -> Labs tab. The other experiment is called "Forgotten Attachment Detector" and is supposed to remind you when you refer to an attached file in your mail but then didn't attach anything when hitting send. It could be a useful feature but it didn't..http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-16-n20.html Google News Archive Hiccup- September 16, 2008 Google's news archive search engine has a timeline option, mapping events and names. The usefulness of this feature greatly varies, as quite often it's broken. A search for "techcrunch", for instance, reveals the earliest occurrence to be 125 AD. According to Wikipedia, this was the year of the construction of the Pantheon, the last year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty, and the time when Pope Telesphorus succeeded Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope... and apparently, it was the age.http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-16-n42.html Google Audio Indexing Gets Labs Page- September 16, 2008 GAudi is short for Google Audio Indexing, and it's the latest experiment to be added to the Google Labs. This service lets you do a text search for spoken words in videos of YouTube's US politicians channels. The functionality was previously already available as part of an iGoogle gadget. Will Google ever manage to apply this technology to all YouTube videos -- and perhaps even videos not contained on YouTube, but available from other video upload platforms Google in their FAQ write that the.http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-16-n17.html Get Quicker Google Chrome Updates- September 16, 2008 If you want the latest releases of Google's browser Chrome quicker than the official Beta updates, you can now download a special "channel switcher" executable from Google. Run it on Windows and you'll see a dialog where you can check the Dev option and hit the Update button. Restart Google Chrome, and in the Options -> About Google Chrome dialog, click the Update button. Google explains that the Dev channel "lets you test the latest fixes and get access to new features as they're being...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-16-n55.html Google Chrome Q&A- September 15, 2008 Via email, I've asked Google group product manager Brian Rakowski a couple of questions in regards to Google's web browser. Chrome has been in development for 2 years... did the initial designs resemble what has been released now, or were there a lot of interface or conceptual changes to the program during implementation Of course there was a lot of iteration, but the first attempts are remarkably similar in spirit to what we ended up with. Tabs on top, one box for searches and URLs,...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-15-n69.html Google on Artificial Intelligence- September 15, 2008 The Ignorance is Futile blog collected many quotes by Google employees on the subject of Artificial Intelligence. I find one of the most interesting quotes to be the one from 2005 in relation to Google Book Search, formerly called Google Print (and before that, code-named Project Ocean). A Google employee is quoted to have said, "We are not scanning all those books to be read by people ... We are scanning them to be read by an AI." Now, AI is a bit of a fuzzy term; as algorithms progress...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-15-n61.html Google AdSense in Analytics- September 12, 2008 Digital Inspiration has screenshots of what looks like a prototype of Google Analytics featuring information on how a webmaster's AdSense are doing. For instance, this helps you to find out about the top-earning pages on a given AdSense-powered site of yours. This feature wasn't live for me yet when I checked. Thanks Websonic.nl! Screenshot by Amit with permission, via TheGoogleCache.com.http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-12-n71.html Deceptive AdSense Ad- September 12, 2008 I first noticed the following German AdSense ad on a games site I'm maintaining, and now spotted it on YouTube too. Shown is what looks like a chat window (at least to some novice users). The "user" SweetSexy18 tries to start a conversation, and you'll see a blinking cursor and new chat lines if you don't react at first -- "Like to chat" ... "Hello". Clicking on the close button or trying to focus the chat window to type something will then be an ad click and pop up a site, www.flirt-fever.de.http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-12-n46.html Seth MacFarlane's AdSense Cartoons Now Available- September 11, 2008 A while ago the New York Times reported creator of US series "Family Guy" Seth MacFarlane would create some cartoons to be distributed on Google's AdSense ad network. The NYT wrote that "Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be 'preroll' ads, which ask viewers to sit through a TV-style commercial before getting to the video. Some advertisers may opt for a banner to be placed at the bottom of the video clip or a simple 'brought to you by' note.http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-11-n86.html |