This news came out in December 2007 but I think it is still worthy of a mention and it brings up some very interesting issues. A major Canadian ISP modified the Google.ca homepage to bring member relavent information to their internet users.
In doing this, they in essense are destroying Google’s “Clean” look and feel [...]
Archive for February, 2008
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Matt Cutts talks on ALT attributes for describing images
This is an area I have been very involved in the past years - Getting images ranked in Google. And I can tell you that this area of SEO can return enormous fruits if done well. It is especially relevant if your site has useful images to offer to it users. Why not SEO those [...]
Flickr Follows Wikipedia and Del.icio.us - nofollow tag on External Links
Wikipedia did it 12 months ago and del.icio.us 6 months ago and now Flickr is also following suit. Nofollow tags have been placed on all external links (links pointing to other websites). This is in response to people (spammers included) using these sources as a form of link building playground to point links from these [...]
Tip: Use an RSS feed reader and save time!
Some of you know this, but I am sure that for many people discovering the internet or just too busy to spend much time online searching for news and information, an RSS feed reader can be a very useful tool to keep up with the latest news and developments in your favorite topics.
The short video [...]
Matt Cutts talks on how to remove your content from Google
Here is a great YouTube video with Matt Cutts (the head Google engineer) explaining in a very easy to understand presentation, how to remove your content from Google and also how to prevent Google and other search engines from ever indexing content that you do not want to make public in search engines.
He talks about [...]
Handy Goolge search box queries
I do not think many Googler’s out there realize that the google search box can be used for more things then just keyword searchers for websites. I was reading Matt Cutt’s blog at www.mattcutts.com ( the head Google engineer) the other day and came accross some very nifty features that have recently been built into [...]
Does your business need a .mobi domain?
By now, you must have heard of the .mobi domain extension which stands for “mobile”. This extension has been available for use since 2006 and has yet to catch on, but if you read on below you will see that this domain extension just never really had a chance and was suggested by people without [...]
Nice application to organise your notes and to-do lists
Since I have become a very busy person of late I found myself having trouble organizing my notes and doodles … you know, the yellow post-its that cover your desk and computer screen like an infesting mold! Well, I did some googleing and cam across this very cool desktop application called ‘Hott Notes’ which offers [...]
Get the most of your images with Text Captions with CSS
(Disclaimer: Much of the code/images and idea for this post was acquired from Digital Inspiration over at www.labnol.org with explicit permission)
If you looks at the websites from the BBC and The New York Times, you will notice that they are now display images and pictures within an attractive box made possible by a little nifty [...]
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