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Google’s Realtime Search Results

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August 27  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

If you haven’t heard, Google has dropped its realtime results page for you to play with. This should set off alarm bells about real time marketing if they haven’t been going off. While it currently shows mostly Twitter updates, I have seen the odd Facebook updates which makes we wonder what else is going to start showing up in here. I imagine this Google feature will lead to all sorts of fun and free statistics and trend updates for us to use in our marketing efforts. From a user perspective, I really like how you can use geographic specifications to find updates near you and local news. I urge you to get familiar with the features and keep your eye out for what’s new on Google Realtime Search.

 

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Google Offices Raided In South Korea

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August 17  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

Unlike here in North America where we let Google get away with snooping on our citizens, South Korea took more affirmative action the other day. With concerns over privacy, South Korean Police raided Google’s offices in Seoul mainly on the suspicion of unauthorized collection and storage of data on unspecified Internet users from Wi-Fi networks. While this is going to get a lot of press, can you imagine the viral link campaign Google is getting out of it…as if they need it though.

 

 

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Googles Search Results For Apples

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August 11  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

I’m just half way done my morning latte, reading through the Google section of Webmaster World and quickly came across this gem. You’ve seen me on Twitter, forums and here discussing the recent changes that Google has mixed into its search results, but this just adds more fuel to the fire. From the picture below, is it any surprise to you that there are so many Apple Computer links showing up for this term. Obviously these results will vary depending on where you live, but just take this in as a little lesson. I’m not on the “Google’s losing” bandwagon just yet, take a look at why the results are showing up like this, and how you can take advantage.

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MSNbot Will Be Known As Bingbot

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June 29  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

Come October 1st 2010, Bing will be finally converting its bot name from MSNbot to the new and improved Bingbot name which just makes sense. Hardly link building specific news, but I might as well prepare as many as possible so they’re ready to track when it’s switched over. The Bingbot will be interesting to see how it acts and handles my network of websites, so bring it on and bring on more Bing traffic!

On October 1st, 2010, we will drop the beta designation from the Bing crawler and change the name of the crawler to reflect Microsoft’s new brand for search. Instead of the old msnbot 2.0b showing up in your server logs, the updated user agent will be:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0 +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

The HTTP header From field will also change as shown below:

From: msnbot(at)microsoft.com

will become

From: bingbot(at)microsoft.com

Related Reading:

Bing Crawler: Bingbot On The Horizon via Bing Webmaster Central

Bingbot Talk on Webmaster World via WebmasterWorld.com

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Google Caffeine Slowing Down Google Crawling Rates?

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June 22  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

I’m sure you’ve come here for a reason, you’ve also noticed the large drop in Google bot crawling activity going on in the past week or so. I’ve noticed it across just about all of my sites, and I’m hearing nothing but Google cursing coming loud and strong from webmaster forums across the web. While right now there is just mainly speculation as to what’s going on of course, but I thought I’d open up another avenue of discussion right here. While I have yet to hear something drastic happen to someones site, but it’s quite early to tell what is going on. Please leave your thoughts in the comments, or links to other useful webmaster discussions on the topic…apart from my links below of course!

Related Reads & Resources:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4152972.htm

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022389.html

http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-forum/195076-google-bot-having-troubles-crawl-sites.html

Google Pac-Man Logo FTW

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May 21  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

 

 

Today is Pac-Mans 30th Birthday and the folks at Google decided to create a playable logo for their US customers only. I didn’t even see any news until I used a US datacenter IP to check some rankings…thank goodness I do SEO. I played it a bit and managed to waste at least 30 minutes playing the game so I thought; might as well write about it.

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Google May Update Explained

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May 20  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

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PRWeb Partners With Photobucket

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May 20  |  News  |   Ryan Clark


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PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus, today announced a partnership with Photobucket, one the most popular photo sites on the Web. The partnership means photos uploaded to PRWeb as part of a multimedia news release will automatically be shared through a co-branded Photobucket+PRWeb site. This provides PRWeb customers with an easy way to expand their online footprint, obtain Web traffic through image search, and ultimately reach new customers with visual elements.

Press Release: PRWeb Partners with Photobucket to Expand Image Search

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