Google Gets Into the Social Game with Google Buzz

Did anyone else see the news about Google Buzz and feel a massive sense of closure? The lack of a comprehensive social networking tool always felt like a huge hole in Google’s armoury, but it was only a matter of time before they entered the arena.
Rumours were flying round the web earlier this week about … [more]

February 10, 2010 | Filed Under Google, Social Media | 1 Comment

Digg Adds No-Follow to Combat Spam

Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe.

They also issued a statement about the change on their blog and even went as far as to speak directly to SEOs, saying they would indeed lose some of the authority they may have been getting from Digg in the past.

“These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow” to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity.”
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September 2, 2009 | Filed Under Digg, Google, SEO, Social Media | 9 Comments

Google Experimenting with Images in Search Results?

Is Google playing with a new search result display… and also testing image recognition?

Guest blogger Jenise Uehara Henrikson is in internet marketing, focusing on urban clothing and streetwear.

Update: This article is NOT about Google’s “universal search” which includes images, as well as news and video mixed in the site results. This post documents something new that Google Search appears to be testing only in smaller markets. What’s different about it? Read the (entire) post.

I was doing some research on google.se (Swedish localized Google) when I came across some interesting search results.

In case your Swedish is rusty :) “vigselringar” means “wedding rings”.

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