Archive for the 'ABAKUS SEM/SEO Blog' Category

Google refines Travel Results

May 19th, 2006

It has been seen before, and now i can see this too…

For my search on Beijing, i get this…

If i click on one of the suggestions i get this…

If you look at the results you see a Labeled Dining Guides

Google Trends and Sex

May 11th, 2006

Now yesterday a new feature was introduced by Google, called Google Trends. Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. While thats already …

It`s the end of the world as we know it?

May 8th, 2006

The search engines are moving more and more away from a “search the web” to a search “within our property” service.

Google Health is the latest in a series of new implementations of “Google`s Reality” of the web, as if there weren`t already enough feature that distract from regular Google Search. …

AdSense Accelerator close out membership

May 2nd, 2006

Due to some recent changes at Google, they will only be accepting 200 more subscribers to AdSenseAccelerator before closing out membership….

Expedia.com you got mail (I suppose)

April 27th, 2006

According to Matt Cutts some legitimate sites can expect to get notified by the webspam team of their wrong doings…

Will this be applicable to (what a stupid little hidden link) Expedia.com too?

Albania in Wikipedia

April 21st, 2006

I know little to nothing about Albania, but this entry in the economy section, does not sound right…

The country mainly exports heroin produced in Afghanistan, and imports most of its stolen cars from Western Europe. Money for imports comes from financial aid from the NATO and from the money …

Froogle is rather useless?

April 14th, 2006

…at least in Germany.

I tried to search for a cheap voice recorder at Froogle.de. Well, the first 10 results lead me to Amazon.de telling me “Sorry this article is no longer available” Huh?

Thanks Google for wasting my time…

Amazon cuts electronics commission by 50%

April 10th, 2006

Though times for the few remaining big guys that advertise with Amazon…

With 1st of April (no Joke) the commission for electronics is now a flat 4% (before it was tiered and up to 9%) add the one day cookie and you see why people in the internal Amazon Forum are …

MSN loves Google Calendar

April 7th, 2006

…or why else would MS suck up to those non existing pages…

Jeremy Zawodny partner of Google

April 2nd, 2006

I find that rather amusing…

Advertise on Jeremy Zawodny’s blogYou’re only steps away from advertising on this site, a valued member of Google’s diverse network of partner websites.

Wouldnd`t it be fair that MC would now start advertising with Yahoo ;)

QLR - Rating the Value of Directory Links

March 28th, 2006

I got contacted the other day by the director of Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) at Stanford University. He asked me to submit their Website into all the quality directories. I rattled off the top ten from memory and agreed to send him an email later with …

ILQ - Rating the Value of Directory Links

March 28th, 2006

I got contacted the other day by the director of Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) at Stanford University. He asked me to submit their Website into all the quality directories. I rattled off the top ten from memory and agreed to send him an email later with …

Google Job Search

March 27th, 2006

Well, it was about time, now (if you are based in the US because i can only see it via a US proxy) you can use Google for job search…

more (including screenshots) here

PayPal goes Mobile

March 24th, 2006

Awesome news, this will become big!

What can I do with PayPal Mobile?
You can use your phone to send money to people and buy selected items (advertised with Text to Buy) anywhere within the U.S., Canada or the U.K. You can do both of those things by either sending a text …

Google, Nike Launch Orkut for Soccer

March 20th, 2006

Google and Nike have quietly launched Joga, an invitation-only social-network website for soccer fans and players, reports Phillipp Lenssen.

Gmail hates Yahoo, why?

March 13th, 2006

I use Yahoo Domains allot, and usually i use my gmail account for the registration. Now every single time i register a doman with them, the confirmation mail from yahoo ends up in the spam folder of Gmail. I do mark every time that this particular mail is not spam, …

Webmasterradio.fm rocks?

March 9th, 2006

…and Vanessa Fox from Google too!

GoodRoi, who hosts a regular show on Webmasterradio, had a couple of weeks ago Vanessa Fox from the Google Sitemap Team as guest. As almost always listeners are able to give feedback in the chat room that WMR.fm provides and are dealt with live on …

Google Calendar Screenshots

March 8th, 2006

Hmmm, sounds good, looks real, coming soon?

more at TechCrunch

Google TV Search

March 5th, 2006

Interesting Job Offer in Mountain View.

Product Manager - Interactive TV - Mountain View
In this role, you will provide leadership on product vision and execution of projects that enable using Google’s search and advertising technologies to enhance users’ Television viewing experience. …

You will identify key market trends that are shaping …

Microsoft and Google

March 3rd, 2006

Now i always were under the impression that MS and Google are fierce competitors, but what do i know, on Microsoft.com MS happily endorsed Google Deskbar, go figure…

Google thinks for its user?.

February 28th, 2006

…which is great if you cant type, dont know much about the internet or how SE work, however which sucks if you have half a brain cell…

I found this at the german Abakus Forum. Someone was searching for “Haed Modelle 06/07. Now below there is a suggesten in german (which …

Metatag is back

February 23rd, 2006

It must have happend a couple of days ago, all of a sudden the description tag is now used by Google again. I havent seen those in a long time, but now they are all over the place…

Blog Results in Yahoo Search

February 21st, 2006

This might probably be old news for some, but i hardly search for news on yahoo these days, so i was surprised to see right of the serps, (where one would ads expect to be) a box with related blog news regarding your query…

Ask Germany soon charging for access?

February 17th, 2006

This is probably just laywer gibberish, but when you go to the german Ask site you see under the terms of service the following…

Die Gebühren oder Kosten für die Nutzung dieser Site werden, falls zutreffend, von Zeit zu Zeit auf der Ask Deutschland Site festgesetzt. Which basically means “The fees …

Buying Links

February 15th, 2006

One reply at Matt Cutts Blog made me sad…

I emailed Google and got the response that purchasing links was against Googles guidelines.

Ok, so Google doesnt want people to buy links, it is their engine, so do as you please, BUT have you ever searched for something like Text Links, or …