Category Archives: Google

Anything and Everything to do with the almighty Google. Such is the power of this single Search Engine that its every feature is analysed to the 10th degree and here I try and maintain a close eye on all things Google.

TouchGraph Google Browser

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A Powerful Visualisation Solution

Visual Came across this interesting software on Touchgraph which has been integrated by Google via the API and serves to produce a visual representation of a specific keyword or URL (web address).

To quote Touchpad itself:

TouchGraph’s powerful visualization solutions reveal relationships between people, organizations, and ideas.

Explore the wealth of information in today’s growing data collections with our intuitive visual interfaces.

It is truly stunning to see the way the various sites are all interlinked and cross referenced visually, something that has not been done before and it can serve you will in understand at a glance just what you are connected to, in what way and how relevant it may be.

Check the Touchpad Google Browser site and follow the simple instructions. Enjoy the result!

Google SearchWiki – personalise your own search results

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An all new feature of the Google Search Results for those users logged into their Google Gmail account. This feature allows you to dictate internally within your account how the results for particular key phrases are displayed. In other words you can effectively create your own personalised “top 10″ search results for keywords and phrases you search for regularly.

This wont affect rankings (yet) but I can see it having an effect once this gains momentum and popularity with users and may act as some kind of “vote” helping websites rank higher when more users have them personalised at the number one position within their own accounts, however I´m simply speculating about this at the moment!

For more detailed information about this check out the Official Google Blog here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html

Official Google SEO handbook.

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Google release an official guideline on how to do SEO.

It was with a little trepidation I downloaded this PDF and began to read as I wasn’t sure what surprises where in store for me. 20 minutes later and with a sigh of relief, I’m happy to say, I have been completely spot on in the advice I give and follow myself in regards the creation, development and discipline according to Google for good SEO practices.

I will be following on with this handbook to my clients as its simple, straight forward and to the point with little technical jargon so making it a valuable document to pass to clients and potential clients alike. The most important point being that its straight from the horses mouth and no one will be able to argue with that!

Heres the official post from Google Webmaster Central Blog and the PDf of the Official Google SEO handbook is right here.