Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from March 2008: ======================================== Top 10 Most Popular Stories: March 2008 ======================================== 1) Open Letter To Google: Do The Right Thing, Divest Yourself Of Performics - At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Performics to people who want to rank well on -- um -- Google. Conflict of [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from Februrary 2008: 1) Microsoft Makes $45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo - Microsoft is to bid $31 per share to Yahoo's board of directors to purchase the company, a deal potentially worth $45 billion. Details, some history, and analysis. =================== 2) How To Shout On Social Media Sites Without Screaming - No feature that I can recall in recent memory has polarized the social news sphere more than the ability to mass-alert stories to other users for immediate votes. StumbleUpon has the "send to" feature, Propeller has &quo [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from January 2008: 1) 20 Awesome Images Found In Google Maps - The introduction of satellite images into map search interfaces has excited both virtual sightseers and local app developers. Further innovations like Google's Street View have caused consternation from privacy advocates while further pumping up the buzz about online mapping. In 2008, we can expect further innovations that stretch the envelope while dynamic map interfaces solidify as basic table-stakes for all local sites. In gearing up for this year in local search, I thoug [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 25 most popular stories, in terms of pageviews, during the 2007 calendar year. 1) Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs - After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it's part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working. (Published January 2007: 130,153 pageviews) ============ [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from December 2007: Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from December 2007: 1) Instructions On Tracking Santa With NORAD & Google: The 2007 Edition - I'm a serious Santa Claus tracker. When I was a kid, I used to get Santa updates from NORAD (the US missile tracking people) via the radio. As an adult, I've long used the NORAD Tracks Santa web site to keep up with St. Nick, Father Christmas, or whatever your local name is for the jolly red suited man. This year, Google officially partnered with NORAD, bringing the N [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from November 2007: 1) Google Maps Adds Terrain View, Replaces Hybrid View - If you load up Google Maps, you may notice that they have removed the "Hybrid" button and replaced it with "Terrain" and a simulated view of cities or terrain. Here is a live frame of the Google Terrain view of New York City 10010. =================== 2) It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank - Have you ever wondered what it really takes for a story submitted to Digg to get to the home page? Or why a certain story—eve [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from October 2007: 1) Mapping The Southern California Fires - I'm back home (my original home) in Southern California for vacation, and to welcome me back, the Southland is on fire. Ah, just like old times. As I was keeping up with the news, I came across some maps online from Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, and elsewhere that I thought I'd share with others. =================== 2) Billboard Showdown: Google 411 Takes On Ask's Algorithm - I'm in the Bay Area this week, and driving down Lombard Street, I brought the car to a h [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from September 2007: 1) Google Birthday Logo: Nine Years Old - The Google home page is sporting the special logo celebrating the company's ninth birthday. But wait? Didn't Google just turn 10? Google's domain name turned 10 years old on September 15, but the company itself celebrates its incorporation date in September 1998. But when is that incorporation date: Sept. 7 or Sept. 27? =================== 2) Larryos, Raisin Brin, Porn Flakes & Other Google Cereals - I was at Google last month and did a double-take at the wall art up ne [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from August 2007: 1) Google Universal Search Means Looking For Raccoons Is No Longer Family Friendly - A reader tipped me off to this. Search for raccoon, and Google Universal Search puts some pictures up at the top of the page: See it? Third one over? I didn't know a dog and a raccoon could, well... =================== 2) The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles - Suppose your company, boss or political candidate discovers that their Wikipedia article is wrong, or has subtle inaccuracies that nonetheless paint them in an unf [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from July 2007: 1) Google To Add "Unavailable After" META Tag - Google is releasing a new META tag named "unavailable_after." The "unavailable_after" tag will allow you to tell Google when Googlebot should no longer crawl that page. =================== 2) SEO Tips & Tactics From A Wikipedia Insider - I am a Wikipedia administrator, and I specialize in complex investigations. Media professionals and Wikipedia volunteers seldom understand each other. So I'll illustrate my perspective with an example: let [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from June 2007: 1) Ask Relaunches: Now "Ask 3D" - Ask.com is touting the release of "Ask3D" as a "major leap forward" for search. A bold three-panel interface (taken from the experimental Ask X) integrates more multimedia content, including images, videos, music files, as well as more structured text-based content. It also offers a battery of impressive features – new and existing – to bring more context and help to search results. =================== 2) Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It's Privacy Interna [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from May 2007: 1) Google 2.0: Google Universal Search - Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. =================== 2) Google's New Navigational Links: An Illustrated Guide - After months of testing, Google is rolling out new ways to navigate within its search results and between different Google properties. Here's an illus [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from April 2007: 1) Google Declares Stephen Colbert As Greatest Living American - It's official. Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American, or at least now ranks tops for that phrase at Google. It's all come from the latest Google bombing campaign sparked off in part by Stephen himself. The backstory on this, plus the "I thought Google bombing didn't work anymore" angle, in this story. =================== 2) George W. Bush: A Failure Once Again, According To Google - Remember how Google introduced a link bomb fix in Jan [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from March 2007: 1) Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases - Hurray! Finally, you can get a report from Google of the top anchor text phrases used when people link to your site. Google Webmaster Central has just announced the new feature. But didn't Google already report anchor text data? Yes, but only keywords, not phrases. Keywords are mostly useless junk food data. Phrases are datalicious, tasty and helpful. Below, a detailed and illustrated look at what a difference a phrase makes and how to claim your own. =================== [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from February 2007: 1) Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools - For years, Google's link: command has deliberately failed to show all the links to a website. This came out of Google's fear that site owners simply wanted the data to try and manipulate rankings -- which was pretty true. Instead, they only provided a sampling of backlinks. Today, that changes. Google Webmaster Central is rolling out new support allowing you to view and even download thousands of links to your site. =================== 2) Squeezing The Search Loaf: Findin [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from January 2007: 1) Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs - After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it's part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working. =================== 2) 14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points Since 2001 - Earlier I [...]

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