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Google To Topple Baidu With Short Domain Name?

Someone who’s too weak, lazy, or pressed for time to type eight letters and a period is in serious trouble.  But anyone who would rather type eight than three is just silly, and so Google China has unveiled a new domain name: G.cn.

With "Google" In Your URL, No AdSense For You!

"AdSense Disallowed On URLs Containing 'Google'". This was said by Google itself. A Google Blogoscoped account shows an AdSense ban of a portion of an active site.

Google's URL Spellchecker

Google started to sometimes show URL suggestions if you used the search box as “address box” but mistyped the address.

Search Update Rolling At Yahoo

The latest 'weather report' from Yahoo Search said an ongoing update should wrap up very soon.

Google Looks For URL Suggestions In Search Result!

In a recent thread at WebmasterWorld, some members have reported that Google is asking searchers to suggest some URLs for specific searches. "Help improve search for everyone" is how Google is asking for suggestions. Google asks the users to Click a link to submit a link. The link open a form where you need to login.

SES - Lee's Day 3 Wrap Up

Another great day is how I’d characterize day three of the San Jose Search Engine Strategies conference.

Yahoo Search Scripts Dynamic URL Rewriting

The beta launch of 'Dynamic URL Rewriting' in Site Explorer allows webmasters to tell Yahoo Search which dynamic parameters they would like the search engine to ignore.

How Google Deals with Fragments/named Anchors

In a post called 'Talk like a Googler: parts of a url', Matt Cutts discusses how Google deals with fragments/named anchors. Here are some of the components of the url:

Cutts: Google Honors The Underscore Now

Another tweak to Google's algorithm will allow the search engine to properly recognize an underscore as a word separator, making life much easier for WordPress and Movable Type bloggers.

iTunes Podcast RSS Enclosure URL Encoding

I am working on publishing a podcast in iTunes for one of my clients. From what I have read on various blogs iTunes can be very picky, so I thought I would post this for anyone else having this problem. I was getting the following error message: