Jagger 3 Update Goes Live

The new and highly anticipated third stage of the Jagger 3 update from Google appears to be going live with the new algorithm appearing in the www.google.com results. As with most of Google’s updates they’ve kindly initiated it in the evening on a Friday just to further insure that those of us in the SEO […]

Jagger 3

We’re finally starting to see some of the new results from the 3rd stage of the Jagger update bleeding into the Google results pages. Interestingly, I ran a search which produced the new results however when I refreshed the page it had switched back. The update is beginning and the new results are sure to […]

Jagger 3 Underway

Looking accross multiple datacenters it appears that Jagger3 (the third and seemingly final stage of the latest Google update) appears to be starting up with new results appearing on more and more datacenters. This latest update is very significant and appears, from early analysis, to “spank” reciprocal links and place more weight on the specific […]

Climbing the Beanstalk November 2, 2005

Welcome to the November 2, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the monthly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. The past month has provided for some interesting times in the search engine world with a lot of news coming out of Google especially so let’s just get straight to it … […]

Google Reader Launched

Google has recently launched a new service called Google Reader. This service, available at http://reader.google.com/(Link removed – service discontinued) allows users to search for and easily manage RSS feeds, giving quick and easy access to the most current information and news on the topics that interest you most. For those of you unfamiliar with RSS […]

It’s Just Rumor … But It’s A Fun Rumor. :)

While surfing SlashDot today I discovered that Google has officially declared war on Microsoft by allowing users of the Google toolbar to access Sun’s OpenOffice. This move would put a huge hit on Microsoft as users quickly discovered that while OpenOffice doesn’t have all the bells-and-whistles that Microsoft Office does, it does have the features […]

Like Google Earth? How About Google Sun …

Alright alright, cheesy title I know. 🙂 (I just couldn’t resist) Google and Sun Microsystems announced today an agreement to promote their products to the world. During the announcement they noted that this move will make it easier for people to gain access to the Java Runtime Environment, the Google Toolbar, and OpenOffice. Google notes […]

Another Great Newsletter

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you read blogs and SEO newsletters to keep up with the latest SEO news and to glean some insight into the search engines then Jill Whalen’s High Rankings Advisor newsletters is a must-subscribe-to resource. I just received today’s edition and after giving it a read, […]

Google – Headlines Abound!

I noticed today that there are an absolutely amazing amount of news stories being released about our favorite search company Google. I figured it might be good to post a collection of them in one place 🙂 To start with, Marisa Mayer is Google’s 20th employee and is one the main people driving the search […]