Google Webmaster Tools has changed their policy, and is now going to start emailing web site owners directly if they detect critical or important issues with your web site. Before now, Google would only notify you about these issues via Google Webmaster Tools' interface--and you had to log in to ...

Google is always testing part of their interface, and I believe that this new test will most likely be one that sticks around. Google has started underlining typos in the search query field. So, when you start typing a keyword, if what you are typing is an obvious typo, then ...

Chalk this up on the list of another one of Google's products that failed. Well, I wouldn't call Google Sidewiki a total failure, but rather a Google product that just did not "catch on" with everyone. Google Sidewiki is being closed down, and Google is offering us all a chance ...

We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. Certainly when designing, programming, developing, and optimizing our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry's best practices. But that doesn't always happen, even if you are Google. I have uncovered a few ...

Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable wrote an interesting post about Google personalization and a little-known Google feature. There is a way to turn off the Google search results' personalization feature by appending "&pws=0" to the Google search results URL.   I recall removing personalization in the search results several ...

As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about their search quality. And today, Huffington Post published a blog post titled "Content is Best Fresh, Not Farmed". Oh Really? Let's take a look at Google's search results for a popular news item that I wrote about yesterday, ...

For publishers all over the world, two main problems have often plagued the publishing world - how to get your content into the hands of those that want it, and how to profit from doing so. In the past, with print media the only business model that was available was ...

If you have used the Google search engine today, you might have noticed a new feature that they have recently rolled out, called Instant Previews. This new feature allows you to fully preview a web page from within the Google search results before visiting actually visiting the web page. Screen capture ...

Apparently Google's search agent named Googlebot (their web crawler) caused the stock of United Airlines to plummet on September 7, 2008. The Tribune Company, in a press released late today, said that "the confusion surrounding a 2002 Chicago Tribune article on the Internet this past weekend started with the inability of ...

Search Engine Roundtable recently pointed out that you can now search all of the US Government web sites courtesy of Google. Using Google's new Uncle Sam search, you can now search the US Government websites. I can see how this would be very useful, especially if you wanted some unbiased ...