Google Now Crawling And Indexing Flash Content

Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds ...
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Jul. 1, 2008 at 12:00am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google

Matt Cutts of Google said at PubCon that Google will be treating sub domains similar to how they treat folders on a site. I reported this at the Search Engine Roundtable on a post by Tedster at WebmasterWorld, where Tedster said: News flash from Las Vegas PubCon. Matt Cutts informed us that Google ...
Related Searches: Subdomains | Multiple Domains | Sub Domain

Dec. 7, 2007 at 9:02am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review

... on Search Engine Land in 2007. To see these stories with full descriptions, visit the Search Engine Land's Most Popular Stories Of 2007 page. Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs Google 2.0: Google Universal Search Mapping The Southern California Fires Google Universal ...
Related Searches: Chart Search Engine | Seo Tips | Search Engine Statistics | Top Search

Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Lee Odden Interviews Google's Adam Lasnik

Lee Odden posted a ten-minute interview with Google's Adam Lasnik. Adam is well-known for being one of the many Googlers who work on Webmaster communication. In this interview, Lee asked Adam questions on: Google compliant Flash and JavaScript capabilities Duplicate content issues and if there are ...

Feb. 20, 2008 at 9:33am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Month: June 2008 Search News, In Review

... don't seem to know what they've bought? Let's have a little reality check about that big fat failure Yahoo supposedly is. =================== 3) Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites - Google has launched a major addition to Google Trends named Trends for Web Sites. Trends for Web Sites ...
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Jul. 7, 2008 at 4:04pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google "Skip Intro" Link Skips You Past Splash Pages, Plus Google Offers Query Translation

Sick of sites that force you to sit through a Flash splash screen? Now Google's offering a "Skip Intro" link to save you that annoyance. Plus, Google's also offering to translate your queries into other languages. More on both, below. Philipp Lenssen also noticed the Skip Intro option. A ...

Jun. 11, 2008 at 9:34am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google China Launches Music Search

Music 2.0 has shared detailed screen captures and commentary on the launch of Google China Music Search. I personally cannot get to this site ("Sorry, Google is not your region provide you with the services they need" message appears"), but Music 2.0 does have screen captures and calls ...

Aug. 6, 2008 at 9:06am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Expands Google Gadget Ads For Advertisers Beta

Google has announced they are expanding Gadget Ads Beta to AdWords advertisers worldwide. Before now, Gadget Ads was a very limited beta, but now, Google is expanding this program to more advertisers. Google Gadget Ads are interactive ads that contain rich media capabilities. Gadget Ads can contain ...
Related Searches: Gadget Ads

Sep. 19, 2007 at 12:01am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Scoop: Google Responds To Rep. Joe Barton's 24 Privacy Questions

As we covered earlier, US Representative Joe Barton sent Google a letter with 24 questions relating to privacy -- along with a week to answer them. I was annoyed that some seemed basic and already answered in a way that one of his interns could easily uncover. But Google's now replied to the letter ...
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Dec. 22, 2007 at 7:11am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google-TeleAtlas Collaborate To Improve Local Data

No matter how much 3D, imagery, flash, and other impressive functionality you build into maps, data are the core of the experience. And improving local data is like building the pyramids in a sense. It takes lots of effort from many people. For this reason Google opened up Google Maps to community ...

Jul. 1, 2008 at 7:40am Eastern by Greg Sterling