Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
This is a discussion of a Microsoft patent granted today that may not have been implemented, and may never be. It’s unclearly written, but worth discussing… When you perform a search at a search engine, the page that shows the results of your query is often referred to as a search results page. Search engines … Read more
Moving right along, world-class software systems always have an extension language and a plug-in system — a way for programmers to extend the base functionality of the application. Sometimes plugins are called “mods”. It’s a way for your users to grow the system in ways the designer didn’t anticipate. – Steve Yegge, The Pinocchio Problem … Read more
Google’s Desktop Search is probably more well known for a mix of features and gadgets than it is the ability to index content on a computer or network directories. There’s also an Enterprise edition that enables a company to share the use of desktop search. Most of what I’ve seen written about this Google search … Read more
Added 3/4/2022 – This removed documents was a live feature at Google that Google halted. You could remove documents from your searches, but pages would continue to rank the same for other searchers if you did. re, we may all be able to join Google Engineer Matt Cutts in fighting spam on Google. Or at … Read more
Some of Google’s past hires involve people who are pretty well known in the open source and open standards worlds. Last week, Kevin Marks noted on his blog that he had recently become Begoogled, and is now a software engineer at Google. He was a principal engineer for Technorati, after working for Apple and the … Read more