For so many web surfers, it’s almost automatic to type Google.com in to our address bar when we want to search.
Google’s Trap, DMOZ’s Nap, And Yahoo!’s Crap
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Google Introduces Google SMS
Continuing their (exponential?) company growth, Google has introduced another service, this time, aimed at the mobile phone generation. SMS, short for Short Message Service, allows mobile phone users to send text messages to one another. In this case, users send queries, in text message format, to Google search.
Google Growing An Update on Google
There is a lot going on at the Googleplex these days. For three different reasons, each of which is important to search marketing, Google has been in the SEO spotlight the past week.
The Geo-Google Threat, 2004
Research and Markets has added The Geo-Google Threat, 2004 to their offering. While growing 174% to more than $2.5 billion in 2003 paid search remains a largely national business used mostly by those who sell their products online.
Google Page Rank – Important or Just Another Number?
Before, I wrote about how your website’s Alexa rating is not actually that important to the success of your online business. Now, I want to look at another popular statistic – Google Page Rank – and ask a similar question – is it that important?
Google Groups Are Still Useful
Some very early users of the Internet – not the worldwide web as we know it today – but the Internet from the early 1980s, will have heard of, and likely used, Usenet.
Google Catalogs – Old Fashioned Mail Order Meets High Tech Search
In addition to Google’s Froogle shopping service (still in beta), which features a searchable database of online merchants, Google is also beta-testing their Google Catalog service. Google Catalogs provides a searchable central repository of hundreds of mail-order catalogs.
Help your visitors zero in with Site-Flavored Google search
As Google has gained in their search reputation the past few years, many webmasters have added a Google search box to their pages. This is meant to provide a quick path for visitors to continue their search, should they not find what they’re looking for on the original site. To help these webmasters provide even more service to their visitors, Google is currently beta-testing a new feature called Site-Flavored Google Search.
Tracking Google and Googlebot Using PHP
No one alive can deny the force of Google and how powerful it has become in the Web design and Web hosting business. Many people work for hours and hours, days and days to make sure the Web site they have is ready for Google and it’s Googlebot whenever it might come for a visit.