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Google Culling Webkit Code In Blink
Google announced a month ago that they were going to fork Webkit and were calling the fork “Blink”. This announcement came a big shock to the web dev community and in particular the people at Webkit themselves. The reasoning behind their decision was that Webkit was getting cumbersome as it had to support a large…
Matt Cutts and the Subjective Search Engine
Matt is asked a “philosophical” question by a user calling himself dimwit. Dimwit asks : “How can Google be confident with their SERPs, when relying on inherently subjective signals that influence which sites display (i.e. using human ‘quality raters’ to evaluate entire domains without the context of the search query itself)?” Normally I avoid these…
Larry Page Is A Megalomaniac And Has Finally Lost The Plot Completely
Ok, I am going to take off my reporting hat for a while and drift back into rant mode. You can go to SEL or SER now, if you want some real news and not listen to a jaded web nerd remonstrate against one of the wealthiest men on the planet. I promised I would…
Google Pounces On Another Link Network
Matt Cutts gave us an insight into what might be happening in the next few weeks and months. He mentions many things but one point that comes across loud and clear is that he is after the blackhatters. Google announced on twitter that they had actually taken action against a big link network. He didn’t…
Google PageRank Update May 2013
Where is the Google PageRank update? If you are reading this and don’t know what PageRank is then let me explain. The Wikipedia definition is : “PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google web search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set…
Google Webmaster Help Video – Matt Cutts Talks About The Near Future
Matt Cutts of the Google spam team has put out another Webmaster help video. To be quite frank this is the first properly interesting video he has done in over a year. What makes it even more striking is that the question was posed by himself. “What should we expect in the next few months…
Google SMS Search Is Closed Down
OK like me I guess plenty of people out there are wondering what the hell is SMS Search? SMS search was and I say “WAS” because now it is gone, it was a product that allowed a phone search by sending the query text as an sms to Google. The initial reports came through Reddit…
Google Search Results Have Changed? – Title Now Being Displayed Differently
Has Google changed the way it displays Search Results? I am not one hundred percent sure this is a new development but I have noticed in the last few days that Google seems to be concatenating the overall blog name or blog title to the results preceded by a dash “-”. I first noticed this when searching…
Penguin 2.0 (4) a few weeks away says Matt Cutts
Wait Penguin 2.0? I hear you screaming but Danny Sullivan says we are up to Penguin 3?, the next Penguin update should be 4?. Danny Sullivan has gone into a naming war with Matt Cutts. The official Google naming convention wil be 2.0 but Danny and probbaly the rest of the SEO community will stick to 4. A…
Google Algorithm Update for May It Appears To Be Happening
Four days ago I wrote an article on Google updates for May 2013. It was largely speculation and was just me vocalising what I was seeing around the web at the time. Well what a difference four days makes. The update appears to be on in earnest. A WebmasterWorld thread has been extremely active. Webmasters are…
