How to Avoid Google Penalties with AJAX and display:none

As you may have read about by now, Google's Matt Cutts participated in a fairly lengthy Q&A session at SMX Advanced in Seattle. One interesting question that Matt got was about how webmasters should deal with display:none and AJAX without being penalized by Google. Cutts recommends making sure that whenever you write your own mouseover code that you don't roll your own custom solution, which…

Could Celebrities Drum Up Mass iGoogle Interest?

Google has introduced the iGoogle showcase, which is a gallery of celebrity iGoogle pages for you to peruse, and if you like one well enough, emulate theirs for your own. I suspect this is a way to generate more interest in the use of iGoogle (it certainly worked for Twitter).

Google Decides Its Now Hip to Be Square

Google Squared went live today. You may recall that it was introduced at Google's Searchology event last month, at the same time the "search options" feature was released. Following is a demo from the event:

Matt Cutts Tweets About Bing

Everybody's talking about Bing today since the Microsoft's new search engine became unexpectedly available on a widescale. That includes Google, and more specifically Matt Cutts.