The Reasoning Behind Ask 3D

Last week in my interview with Jakob Nielsen, he called Ask's 3D label "stupid". Just to refresh your memory, here's how the exchange went:

Fear The Bots For Quality Score

Since Google added a new layer of complexity to the AdWords system this year in the form of Quality Score, not a lot has been published about how it works or why it does a certain thing.

High Stakes Gmail Shirt Contest

There is going to be a new Gmail t-shirt, and in and of itself, this news probably wouldn’t be worth writing about.  But what’s interesting is that Google is holding a contest to determine the shirt’s design, and the winner stands to gain $2,000 and a new iPhone.

Backdating Nofollow On Specific Domains

There are times when you might want to retro-actively add nofollow to links you have given freely in the past. As an example some time ago I started using the nofollow Wikipedia plugin.

Mobile Search Another Key To Google Phone

An in-development project at Google for discovering mobile content through search and enabling payment for it gives us another reason to believe Google will debut a phone and a wireless network.