Google Quietly Drops PageRank From Webmaster Tools
Oct 15, 2009 at 10:22am ET by Barry Schwartz
My piece this morning, Google Removes PageRank Data From Webmaster Tools from the Search Engine Roundtable has sparked a lot of discussion on Twitter. Google had indeed removed the PageRank statistics from Google Webmaster Tools. I believe it was removed when Google released the Webmaster Tools Labs features earlier this week. PageRank being pulled from the crawl stats, has gone mostly unnoticed until I wrote about it this morning.
Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Central team explained it was removed because Google keeps telling webmasters "that they shouldn't focus on PageRank s [...]
Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Toolbar, Google: Webmaster Central, Top News
Google Toolbar For IE Adds “Advanced” Translation
Jul 1, 2009 at 8:52am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Blog announced the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE (Internet Explorer) has new "advanced translation" capabilities. The translation features include:
Automatic detection of languages other than your default language
One click translation
Client side (does not communicate with Google) language detection
Automatic language translation on page clicks
Real-time translation for dynamic content
Auto translation feature (bypass click for translation) for frequent sites you visit
There are 41 different languages currently supported, including: Albanian, Arabic, Bulga [...]
Filed in: Google: Toolbar, Google: Translate
Google Brings ‘My Location’ To The Desktop
Apr 24, 2009 at 1:38pm ET by Matt McGee
Knowing where a searcher is when s/he conducts a search is one of the big promises and opportunities in mobile search. Advertisers want the precise targeting, and it's also a convenience for the user who doesn't need to indicate a location when looking for products and services. There are already several tools and services that include location as part of the mobile search experience, but Google has added location-based web searching on the desktop via a new, beta version of the Google Toolbar.
The new toolbar includes Google's "My Location" technology, which was introduced in 2007 for mobi [...]
Filed in: Google: Labs, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: Toolbar, Top News
Google Toolbar 6 For IE Adds Search To Windows Task Bar
Feb 25, 2009 at 9:04am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google announced the release of the Google Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer. This toolbar, when installed, adds the Google Quick Search Box (QSB) to the task bar of Windows computers. This is by far the most visible difference with this version of the toolbar. Other changes include enhancing the search suggestions and a new tab page feature that gives you quick access to your most viewed sites, recently closed tabs and bookmarked pages.
Let me take a closer look at the Quick Search Box. When I installed it on my PC, it added the Google icon to my task bar:
Either clicking on this [...]
Filed in: Google: Toolbar, Top News
Google PageRank: A Strange Case Of Hyves
Jan 20, 2009 at 3:12pm ET by Matt McGee
This is one the most bizarre things I've seen come down the pike in a long time. Let's see if you agree:
According to this post on Mediadonis, you can check if Google has penalized a domain or not by simply adding the word hyves as a subdomain and then checking the PageRank of that subdomain. Use my two primary blogs as examples:
http://hyves.smallbusinesssem.com/ - doesn't exist, but will show toolbar PR7
http://hyves.hyperlocalblogger.com/ - ditto
According to the post, using "hyves" as a subdomain will produce one of three results:
PR7 means that the domain is perfectly fine
P [...]
Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Toolbar
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