Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/384375/...

How much does Google pay

Google Programmer in Phoenix - $174,000/year
Google Programmer in California - $197,000/year
Google Programmer in Chicago - $222,000/year
Google Programmer in New York - $242,000/year

...and thats just in salary. What other financial benefits does Google offer it's employees?

Read More:
http://www.cherryav.com/articles/technology/...

(source of salaries from Indeed.com)

Where Are All The Google Data Centers?

Google’s data infrastructure is massive and spread across the world. All that Web crawling, indexing, and searching takes enormous amounts of computing power, not to mention everyone pounding away at Gmail, Google Apps, Blogger, Google Reader, and every other project dreamed up at the Googleplex. But where are all of these data centers and how many are there?

Link:
http://www.techcrunch.com/...

Google App Engine

Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data

So they can get at your data and know everything about your website.

Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies, Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions), Automatic scaling and load balancing, Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email, Fully featured local development environment.

Seems powerful enough.

Google App Engine packages these building blocks and takes care of the infrastructure stack

Nice

During this preview period, applications are limited to 500MB of storage, 200M megacycles of CPU per day, and 10GB bandwidth per day. We expect most applications will be able to serve around 5 million pageviews per month. In the future, these limited quotas will remain free, and developers will be able to purchase additional resources as needed.

That's pretty large.

Link:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/

Secrets of Google News exposed!

Often publishers ask us why Google News didn't include one of their articles, or skipped the image associated with an article. In the search for answers, we've noticed that there's a lot of confusion about how we include and rank articles. We'd like to share some of the facts, and debunk the myths.

Quick Points:

• Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH
• Updating an article after posting it will create problems with Google News TRUE
• Timing the publication of your article improves your article ranking MYTH
• Articles that are just images or video won't be included TRUE
• There's no way to see why my articles weren't included in Google News MYTH
• Publishing a sitemap helps my rankings MYTH
• Redesigning my site may affect my coverage in Google News TRUE
• If I put AdSense on my site, my article rankings will improve MYTH

Read about each point above:
http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/...

Google turns the lights out

Google is now blacked out for Earth Hour.

(picture posted incase the lights get turned back on)

Leaked Google Document will change the game for SEO?

Do you believe that this internal document to Google is real? A lot of SEO experts seem to think so. Whether you do or your don't is does give some pretty good information and is worth a glance.

What is interesting is, if this document is true, how much more humans have an affect on the SERPs.

Link:
http://.../quality-rater-guidelines-2007.pdf

(download it while you can as it may not last long)

How GoogleBot interacts with your website

If I'm [googlebot] indexing for regular web search, and I see links to MP3s and videos, I probably won't download those. Similarly, if I see a JPG, I will treat it differently than an HTML or PDF link. For instance, JPG is much less likely to change frequently than HTML, so I will check the JPG for changes less often to save bandwidth. Meanwhile, if I'm looking for links as Google Scholar, I'm going to be far more interested in the PDF article than the JPG file. Downloading doodles (like JPGs) and videos of skateboarding dogs is distracting for a scholar—do you agree?
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After actually downloading a file, I use the Content-Type header to check whether it really is HTML, an image, text, or something else. If it's a special data type like a PDF file, Word document, or Excel spreadsheet, I'll make sure it's in the valid format and extract the text content. Maybe it has a virus; you never know. If the document or data type is really garbled, there's usually not much to do besides discard the content.

Very interesting read on how and what GoogleBot will do when accessing your website.

Link:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/...

Google releases new Search in Website feature

If you do a search some results will contain a 'Search [website]' form right inline with the SERP result. A neat little feature that could making searching that much easier.

Give it a try by searching for Amazon:
http://www.google.com/...

Howto: Hack a web server using a Google Search

The "Cult of the Dead Cow" hacker group – cDc for short – has published a tool that searches for vulnerabilities and private information across the web. Using well-chosen Google search queries, Goolag Scan discovers links to vulnerable web applications, back doors, or documents inadvertently put on the internet that contain sensitive information.

This kind of "Google hacking" is already well known: a hacker using the pseudonym Johnny has already published quite a collection of these "Google Hacks" or "Google Dorks" on his web site ihackstuff. What cDc has done is create an automated tool that allows an unskilled hacker to use these same techniques.

Read about it:
http://.../Cult-of-the-Dead-Cow-Google-into-a-vulnerability-scanner

Some standalone hacks for Google (no application required):
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php

Google Sites released

Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

Link:
http://sites.google.com/

Curious about what else Google has to offer then check out my Big Google List.

The Gmail CAPTCHA has been cracked

The Gmail CAPTCHA has been cracked—albeit not easily—raising new concerns about spammers' ability to abuse Google's e-mail services. Websense Security Labs pointed out the security breach late last week, noting that spammers have a lot to gain by being able to use bots to automatically sign up for new accounts.

Link:
http://.../gotcha-captcha-gmail-bot-detector-system-cracked

All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses

You probably know how to create multiple email aliases in Gmail by adding the plus symbol and dots to your Gmail username but there’s something more interesting.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses - one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

Link:
http://.../gmail-email-alias-two-separate-gmail-address/

How Veign appears in Google now

Searching on the keyword Veign brings up a much better serp result now for Veign. Nice.

Link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=veign

Webmaster tools from search engines gives valuable information

If you've never signed up for the various webmaster accounts at the major search engines (Google, Live Search, Yahoo!) then you're missing out on a lot of very valuable information on your website. These are great tools to help increase your position within the various search engines.

Where to find:

• Google Webmaster - Help you with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
• Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page
• Live Search Webmaster - Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view

How Google Ended Up with Their Logo

Ever wonder how Google ended up with the logo that they did? The designer of the logo, Ruth Kedar recently talked about what went into the process and even shared some of her early ideas. Surprisingly it started out more complicated and ended up as the more simple logo that is known around the World today.

Link:
http://.../how-google-ended-up-with-their-logo/

Google introduces an Apps tool for sending forms via e-mail

This morning, Google unveiled an intriguing new collaboration feature that lets users embed forms in their e-mails. It involves the company's existing Spreadsheet platform, and it could be a new tool to expand its online apps' user base.

Link:
http://.../Google_introduces_an_Apps_tool_for_sending_forms_via_email

Ever hear about Personalized Google Maps?

What you can do with Personalized Google Maps:

• Mark your favorite places on your map
• Draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas
• Add your own text, photos, and videos
• Share your map with friends and family

Link:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/mymaps/create.html

The user guide to Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68480

20+ practical and ethical tips to earn more revenue from Google Adsense

Making money online is the hot trend nowadays. In coming days I am sure you will see many working professional quit their day job and seat at home in their pajamas writing some blog posts to make their living.

There are tremendous opportunities to make money online. Currently Google Adsense is the best option for most of the publishers. Some basic optimization tips can double your Adsense revenue. Two sites having same traffic can have huge adsense revenue difference depending on the ad optimization.

Link:
http.../tips-to-earn-more-revenue-from-adsense/

Google Sitemaps FAQ

A great collection of common questions you may have when it comes to the use and need for a Sitemap on your website.

Link:
http://.../sitemaps-faqs.html

Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org

The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of Data Portability - where users can take their data from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere and where vendors can leverage safe cross-site data exchange for a whole new level of innovation. Good bye customer lock-in, hello to new privacy challenges. If things go right, today could be a very important day in the history of the internet.

Link:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/goog-fb-data.php

Is the new Google Analytics code buggy?

Not sure if you heard that Google has released a new code to insert in your website so you can benefit from the new metrics Google has stated that Analyitics will provide. Well, it would seem that some users, myself included, have experienced major issues with the new code.

For me it started when the code causes a major glitch if you run it on an ASP page running through IIS (page will crash). Ok, this was pretty easy to fix but the next issue was not possible. The new code would not register any stats. That means for the 4 days I had the new code installed I registered 0 for everything. I fixed that problem by going back to the old code.

So be warned as the new code may not be ready for primetime yet.

See other discussing problems:
http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-troubleshoot/topics

Gmail's old security flaw still may pose a problem

Read about what can happen:
http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/

Then go and make sure you have no unwanted filters in your Gmail account:
Login -> Settings -> Filters

The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results

Now we're coming to the next major milestone in the elimination of the artificial difference between indices: rather than searching some part of our index in more depth for obscure queries, we're now searching the whole index for every query.

Link:
http://.../ultimate-fate-of-supplemental-results.html

Microsoft co-founder on 700 MHz bidders list, Verizon Wireless not

Thus far, the preliminary list of bidders in the US Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction is a veritable cavalcade of small telecom companies, plus small and large companies alike looking to become telecom companies. Google Airwaves, Inc. is the least surprising, and perhaps most spotlighted member of the group thus far.

Link:
http://.../Microsoft_cofounder_on_700_MHz_bidders_list

The list of bidders:
http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auctions_home

Google Adsense ads offers ad scrolling

Seems like Adsense ads offer a new feature where you can scroll through ads in an ad block using provided arrows. This is something I have not heard about before and just noticed in one of my ads.

Basically, when you click one of the arrows the ads scroll away and new set of ads scroll in. Cool feature but not sure how many people will actually use it.

New code for Google Analytics

The new Google Analytics tracking code (ga.js) has been launched and is now available for you to use when you set up a profile. Installing the lighter ga.js code snippet instead of the old tracking code (urchin.js, "legacy") lets you take advantage of upcoming advanced features and sophisticated reporting while keeping the reliable tracking capabilities of urchin.js. For these reasons, we recommend installing ga.js instead of urchin.js. For more information on the new ga.js code, including information on migrating over from "urchin.js,"

Link:
https://www.google.com/.../answer.py?answer=55488

Migration Guide:
http://www.google.com/analytics/GATCmigrationguide.pdf

Google to bid on 700MHz spectrum

Google's interest in the 700MHz spectrum auction has not been a secret. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said back in August that the company would "probably" bid in the auction, and Google announced several weeks ago that it was preparing all the necessary materials to make a bid. Now, at last, Google is making it officially official.

Google Phone, Google Broadband. Its all coming...

Link:
http://...-really-truly-official-google-to-bid-on-700mhz-spectrum.html

This blog makes it into a Google blog directory

In a directory under:
Computers > Programming > Resources > Weblogs

Pretty cool. Hopefully this will help bring more traffic.

Link:
http://.../Top/Computers/Programming/Resources/Weblogs/

Google Maps Adds Terrain View

See more:
http://searchengineland.com/071127-110049.php

Breakdown of a Google search result

Page Title: Usually pulled from the TITLE tag set on the page. Can also be pulled from the Open Directory Project's (DMOZ) title. Setting the META tag NOODP prevents the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) information being used and will default back to onpage information. Limit of 63 characters.

Snippet: Pulled from the page content or meta description. If the search keyword is located further down in a page Google may pull the snippet from within the page, around the keyword. If for some reason the page was not accessible then Google may pull the information from the Open Directory Project (DMOZ). Limit of approximately 156 characters.

Plus Box: Used to expand the information shown for a company. Examples of why a plus box is shown would be: Stock Information, Map of company address

Url: Url of where you will be taken when clicking the search result

Filesize: Size of the page you will be taken to.

Cached: A snapshot of the last time the page was crawled. Sometimes next to the Cached link will be an indicator of the time of last crawl (like 1 hour which means it was crawled one hour ago)

Similiar pages: Pages that are similiar to the page displayed in the search result

Note this: Saves the result in Google Notebook. Displayed when you are logged into Google.

Site links: A helpful list of links within a domain that a user may want to go to beyond the presented result from a keyword search. This is a completely algorithmic result (not done by hand or evaulated by a human).

More results: Provides a search result for your keyword that limits the search to within the domain of the search result.

- Digg it -

(as extracted from the video from Matt Cutts)

How to Migrate Your Custom Domain’s Email to Google (And Maintain Your Addresses)

Google Apps allows those with their own domain to move their entire mail infrastructure to Google. That means keeping your email addresses exactly as they are today (e.g. daniel@dmiessler.com) while gaining the benefit of being hosted by Google. Here are a few advantages to consider:

Link:
http://.../how-to-migrate-your-custom-domains-email-to-google...

gOS

We're creating an OS ecosystem that is complete. We come with all the software you need to browse the web, email, instant message... play movies, music, and connect to iPods... create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, images... out of the box. Plug and play!

What can you do with it?

Turn Your Old PC into a Webapp Monster with gOS:
http://.../turn-your-old-pc-into-a-webapp-monster-with-gos


Link:
http://thinkgos.com

Google's phone announcement

A few hours after Google's dramatic announcement which some sources had still been anticipating as a mobile phone bearing the Google brand, we actually know less about Android than we did -- or thought we did -- at 11:00 this morning when it was announced. During a midday press conference featuring key Google executives including CEO Eric Schmidt, reporters called into question most of the principal facts surrounding the new Open Handset Alliance - most importantly, the ingredients of the Android platform.

Link:
http://.../Googles_Phone_Platform_Its_Not_an_OS_So_What_Is_It/

Gatineau is Microsoft's answer to Google Analytics

Microsoft will be releasing an analytics program similiar to Google Analyitcs at some time in the future. Right now its in an invite only beta called Gatineau.

Read all about it:
http://www.liesdamnedlies.com/2007/10/its-here.html

Link to beta invite:
http://advertising.microsoft.com/microsoft-adcenter-gatineau

Google releases Code Search sitemaps

Google's Code Search helps users find function definitions and sample code by enabling them to search publicly accessible source code hosted on the Internet. You can tell Google about source code on your site by creating and submitting a Code Search Sitemap. A Code Search Sitemap is just like a regular Sitemap, and is submitted in the same way, but it does include some additional, Code Search-specific information.

Link:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/...

Google has a 'Supported IMAP Client List' help section

Does this mean Gmail will provide support for IMAP?

Link:
http://mail.google.com/...

New Google Analytics features

Whats new:

• Google Analytics to track site search activity
• Google Analytics Event Tracking capability
• Outbound Link Tracking feature

Read up:
http://.../exciting-announcements-at-emetrics.html

How to Fake a Google Page Rank 10

1. Buy a domain.
2. 301 Redirect the domain either in you .htaccess, PHP header (anything server side) to a page with the desired page rank. It’s better to redirect to something relevant. For example, if you are doing a mortgage site, redirect to a mortgage site.
3. Link to the page with the redirect from another of your sites that gets regularly spidered by Google. Since you use the Alexa Toolbar, you should have several sites that are spidered daily by google.
4.....

Full story:
http://.../how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/

Urchin may not be so dead

I posted last week about the story of Google acquiring Urchin stats and letting the application die. Well it would seem that Google may be releasing v6 of Urchin shortly.

In case you are wondering, Google acquired Urchin and used an Urchin product to produce and release