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Google Crawling Your Forms
Conquering all frontiers, Google will now index forums and other form sites to capture even more information. This can be beneficial for users searching how to information contained in various sites without having to visit each site. Google does state that they will avoid password protected pages. While many forums and form sites are already on Google, this new service will index even more by pretending to be a person. How will this impact your site? Will it start a flurry of activity on your server? Are you silly enough to be on a server that charges for bandwidth?
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Crawling through HTML forms
Big Brands Still Not SEO Friendly
A good article on why big brands aren’t search friendly. Review the reasons and make certain you aren’t guilty as well. Do you have a big brand “competitor”? Take advantage if they are asleep at the wheel. It’s going to take them longer to turn the wheel than a smaller company.
MSN Live Search News
Microsoft’s second attempt to aggregate news is much improved. It’s a very simple interface with a useful sidebar containing local news. The local news uses your IP address to determine your location. While this saves having to enter a city and zipcode, it’s not terribly helpful if you live on the state line as I do. I’m getting the wrong state news with no clear way to change it permanently. There are only a few news sources at the moment and no RSS feed yet, but it does have promise to be an excellent service. The interface is clean and tidy and ….mmmmm…. looks like Google.
Wise Google Sells Search Marketing Firm
As part of the DoubleClick purchase, Google aquired Performics, a search marketing company. Wisely Google has announced that it is selling this company stating that it does not want to be in this market. Needless to say, owning this company would be a bit of a conflict of interest and a bit incestuous. Thank you Google.
More April Fools from Google
Ok, so apparently there are a number of Google April’s fools jokes. Now you can send email to arrive in the past. Can I warn myself about my first marriage….
Another Google April Fools Joke?
Here’s another Google joke from downunder. Search tomorrow’s web today! Now this is a bit funnier.
Google’s April Fools Joke
Geeks across the globe will traverse to Google today to check out their annual joke. I must say I was quite disappointed. They want to start a colony on mars. Didn’t they do this with the moon a few years back? Yawn.
Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
A much funnier April fools joke is at The SEO RoundSquareTable.
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