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Google PageRank Update - Page Rank Update and Page Rank Explained
As of Friday a Google PageRank update has been rolling out across Google Data Centres. Page Rank updates are visible at most DC's, but not at every one. Some data centres will take much longer to update their Page Ranks.
Google's garage: preserving a legacy
With aims to preserve the company's legacy, Google has bought the Menlo Park home where company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first set out to develop a new approach to online search.
Yahoo! and HP in search agreement
Yahoo! secures space on new HP desktop with a co-branded toolbar.
Google launches The Literacy Project
Google, UNESCO and LitCam launched The Literacy Project this week, an interactive website that allows students and teachers worldwide to share their techniques and teaching tips, in an important step towards increasing global literacy levels.
Email spam V's fallout from the online poker ban
Recently the US government has put a ban on gambling online - will this mean less email spam or more?
Hitwise search intelligence by paid and organic search terms
Hitwise's 'real-time competitive intelligence' continues to expound on its comprehensive service to provide insights into ways to empower your online marketing with its recent release of the Search Intelligence 4.0 tool.
WAI ahead on the web - SEO lessons to be gained from the W3C's new Web Accessibility Initiative documents for AJAX, DHTML (WAI-ARIA)
Traditionally in SEO, good human site interaction results in good search engine interaction; however, is this still the case with modern web 2.0 techniques?
Social dot com bubble - boom or burst??
Social networking sites represent the current buzz within the internet community, however certain site valuations have lead analysts to identify worrying correlations to the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
It happens: Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
Hands up if you are surprised? Search giant Google buys YouTube for a whack of cash - US$1.65bn to be exact. The US marks its approval as shares in Google rise to $429.
The thinking behind Google's SearchMash
Google have launched an experimental search site under the heading of "SearchMash" with some innovative features worth further investigation.
