I hear a lot about alternative search engines. If you do some Googling searching on the subject, then you’ll quickly realize that there are many “alternatives” out there. I’m not talking about companies such as Yahoo and Bing. Of course we know that these guys are alright when it comes to search, but even they [...]
Two-Step Google Verification SMS Spam
Not too long ago I started to receive an endless stream of Google Two-Step Verification codes to my cell phone. I had not changed anything, but I had no way of stopping it and hoped the problem would resolve itself. Well, it turns out that it does not. What you need to do is use Google [...]
Switch from Google Chrome DEV to Beta Channel
If you are like me, then you’re sick of the Google DEV channel getting screwed up by new bugs. (I thought that was the whole point of the Canary build?) Recent hair-pulling bugs include: fonts no longer rendering properly, sluggish performance on Twitter, or random crashes that weren’t there a build ago. Well, fear not. [...]
Is it Time for a New Google Syntax for Comments?
The average blog post is fairly easy to index and crawl for Google. However, what happens when a single page has several hundred comments? How does Google decide what’s important to include in a search query and what to ignore? Heck, in some cases the comments on a Reddit post are more important than the [...]
Free Google Search Keyword Tracking
Finally an advanced Google keyword ranking checker that is free. The site is aptly named KeywordRankings and is geared towards SEO people looking to save a history of where their keywords rank in Google. Feature List: Entire Service is free Add unlimited domains Add unlimited keywords Each keyword ranking is checked once per day Each [...]
Gmail Notifier Not Working? It’s because of HTTPS
I’ve encountered a simple, yet annoying problem when it comes to Google’s Gmail Notifier. It turns out that if you select the option to always use HTTPS, then the notifier will not work. The fix can be seen on the Notifier page, which is a registry edit. Surely Google can do a better job of notifying us [...]
Chrome: New “Press Tab to Search” Feature
Google Chrome, Developer version 4.0.302.2 includes a new way to easily search a website. When typing a URL into the address bar, an option comes up to “Press Tab to search”. Have a look below: The feature looks great to me. My only question is how Chrome decides which sites are available to search and [...]
Google’s Rich Snippets Event Possibilities
Today Google announced another new feature of Rich Snippets called Events. Of course it is a great idea to provide more markup to better track events of concerts, sporting events, movies, etc. However, what if Rich Snippets could be used for a slightly different reason? News updates on events or people.
How Banner Advertisements Affect Google’s “Site Performance”
As you may have heard a while ago, Google decided to incorporate load time into where sites rank in terms of search results. The faster the load time, the more of a bonus they should get in SERPs. One of the things that slows down page loads more than anything are site advertisements. In this [...]