19 December 2007

Google Sitemaps for Video Content

Announced at the beginning of the week by Google is an option to submit a sitemap of online video content and relevant metadata to Google to make it more searchable within Google’s video index.
We think this is pretty cool.
It will allow addition of video title, description and other information. This will mean that your video […]

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13 December 2007

Google’s Odd Mathematics

Google’s algorithm may be the most advanced searching algorithm on the planet, but it would appear that simple math skills are evading it.
Google exact match, as defined by Google themselves, is data returned from a search:“that precisely matches the keyword you have chosen — without any additional words or letters before, between, or after the […]

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12 December 2007

A silver lining for northern rock?

The recent crisis at the Northern Rock bank was heavily publicised, with coverage across
a range of media. Whilst this is obviously very negative press and damaging to the
companies reputation, effects in the search engines are mixed.
Brand related searches, such as ‘northern rock’, give results of news articles from the
BBC, Guardian and other sources. These are […]

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12 December 2007

ASK leads search privacy

Ask.com - the former Ask Jeeves search engine - has just released a new privacy protection tool for its users. The tool, shown below, features on the Ask.com homepage.

AskEraser, the name given to the new tool, will delete all search query data and associated cookies in the future for that user - if enabled. […]

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