Apr 20, 2012 at 4:13pm ET by Matt McGee

After only eight months, the Google Related toolbar is headed to the dead pool. That's one of several Google products being phased out in the company's latest "spring cleaning" announcement, along with the One Pass payment system for news publishers, Google Patent Search losing its own home page and Google Flu Vaccine Finder. Google Related is was a browser toolbar that offered contextual information about the web page being displayed in the main browser window. For example, when looking at a restaurant's website, Google Related would show a map/address, reviews and similar restaurants/bus [...]

Related Topics: Google: Patents | Google: Toolbar | Google: Web Search | Top News

Oh No! What Happened To My PageRank?

Oct 6, 2011 at 11:34am ET by Barry Schwartz

There has been a lot of discussion and scare on Twitter and within the SEO forums that Google has disabled the Toolbar PageRank scores from working. The truth is, no they have not. As several sites have reported already, PageRank is still alive in the Toolbar, but Google changed the lookup URL. This change has prevented third-party tools that check PageRank from looking up a page's PageRank. If you use Internet Explorer and turn on the Google Toolbar, you will still be able to look up the Toolbar PageRank score. But you may not be able to do so if you use a third-party tool, not until they [...]

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Google: PageRank Drops Most Likely Because You Sell Links

Sep 14, 2011 at 8:37am ET by Barry Schwartz

In a new Matt Cutts video, the Google engineer answers why webmasters are likely to see a toolbar PageRank drop for their site. He mentions three reasons: (1) You simply lose a link from a third party page that had a lot of high PageRank. (2) You have weird canonicalization issues with your site and domains that caused confusion. (3) The most common reason, Matt said, was because the site is selling links and thus Google will demote the PageRank of that site in order to remove the incentive from link buyers to purchase links from that site. Here is the video: Matt also expl [...]

Related Topics: Google: SEO | Google: Toolbar | Google: Web Search

New: “Google Related” Toolbar Shows Google Content As You Surf

Aug 16, 2011 at 12:01pm ET by Gary Price

Google has just released a new info discovery tool named Google Related that allows users to find and access content that's similar to what they're viewing in their web browser. Before the brief overview below, we need to point out that we're writing this post without having had an opportunity to actually use Google Related. In other words, we're reporting on what we saw in a demo and in screenshots. How Google Related Works If related material (websites, videos, products for sale, maps, etc.) is available (as determined by an algorithm) it can be viewed in a toolbar found at the bott [...]

Related Topics: Features: General | Google: Toolbar | Top News

After Six Years, Google Drops Support For Toolbar On Firefox

Jul 21, 2011 at 9:56am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced the end of supporting the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Google said the Google Toolbar works in versions of Firefox 4 or younger, but not the new version 5 of Firefox. Google explained, "many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browser." So Google has decided the toolbar doesn't offer enough of a value-add on Firefox and thus is no longer supporting it. The Google Toolbar was first introduced over years ago for Firefox. Then later came to Internet Explorer. As you know, Google has their own browser, Chrome, [...]

Related Topics: Firefox | Google: Toolbar | Top News

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