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Google Denies Censoring Egyptian Footballer

At the end of January, Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Aboutrika was the talk of the soccer world. Scoring the winning goal to defeat Sudan's team, Aboutrika raised his shirt to reveal a message of Palestinian sympathy.It read: Sympathize with Gaza.

Google Indexes New Blogs With Few Delays

Owners of new Blogspot or WordPress sites may worry that Google won't index them.  And we can't guarantee that Google will do so quickly, or even that the search giant will do so at all.  There's a fair amount of evidence suggesting that things will be taken care of sooner rather than later, however.

Sitemaps? Just The FAQs, Ma'am

Google has been a sitemaps backer for some time, and they provided some answers to questions webmasters asked during SES Chicago last month.

Google Indexing Sites in 1 Day Again

I created a new site on Friday, and by Saturday exactly 24 hours later it was in Google’s Index. I posted about this just over a month ago in my post, 7 Steps to Get Your New Site Indexed in 24 Hours. I had a lot of comments about whether or not Adwords was necessary, so I thought I’d try it again without running Adwords this time. Here’s how it all played out:

Google Explains Meta Tags

Search engines pay attention to some tags, and none to others. Remember when the 'keywords' meta tag mattered? Ah, the good old days.

Newspapers Propose New Indexing Standards

This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.

SiloMatic - Latent Semantic Indexing

The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the wave of now.

Don't Hold Your Breath For GDrive

From purely a connotative language standpoint, "indexing the world's information" sounds less ominous than the goal of caching "100% of user data." Even so, the long-rumored GDrive may never surface to store all of it.

Don't Try Crawling Google News Comments

The newest feature on Google News - comments solicited from participants in a news story - won't be part of anyone else's news.

Unavailable After: Google Plans New Meta Tag

The unavailable_after meta tag on a web page tells a spider when it should stop indexing a particular page.