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Google Realtime Search
Today Google launched real time search, you can check it out here www.google.com/realtime.
From an SEO point of view, the search suggest results from real time and very different from those of normal search. This further supports the view that search suggest results come from text on the web rather than number of searches.
Google Voice and Video Chat
Google launched their voice and video chat in the UK today. This enables you to make voice calls to landline and mobile numbers worldwide from within Gmail. The rates look great, I can no call my brother on his mobile in Australia for $0.14 a minute.
Here is a screenshot of the dialer.
Enjoy.
Ranking Algorithm Change
Google made a change a couple of days ago which allows many pages from the same domain to show up on specific search terms.
I think this could be exploited if a site targets keywords using the Google wonder wheel. For example, a site that was targeting the core term “managed hosting” together with the wonder [...]
List of All Google Products
Here is a full list of all the products Google have done, there is a lot, nearly 550 in total. Interesting to note that only a few of them have actually made money.
View it here : Google Products List
Or download it here – Download Google Products List
I hope big G can come up with [...]
Google Command Line Tool
A new tool has be released by the open source community called GoogleCL. It allows you to run a full range of commands to use Google services from a command line. This opens up many possibilities for scripted use of Google services.
Some examples may be :
$ google blogger post –blog “My blog” –tags “python, googlecl, [...]
Best Android Game
The best android game has just be released, Duck Hunt! This is an amazingly addictive game. Shoot the ducks and don’t hit the endangered birds! Loads of fun, play for 1 minute or 1 hour. Choose 2 ducks for an even harder challenge.
Google SERPs Get Busy
Google recently made some layout and design changes to both the homepage buttons, logo and more importantly the search engine results page.
Personally I’m not keen on the SERPs changes, the page now looks incredibly busy.
Having these additional options presented to the user could have some big impacts.
Decrease number of clicks on both Adwords and Natural [...]
Forcing Google to Re-Index
Errors can happen sometimes, on this occasion a maintenance message from some sites has been indexed by Google and is causing a drop off in visitors and therefore sales. The best way to increase the speed of a re-index is to link to the sites in question.
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New Google Certification Program
The Google Adwords Professional program has been retired! Boooo, I was one myself, can’t say it was too difficult though so it’s best they stepped it up a notch. You can checkout the new Google Certification program here.
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