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Google today announced the launch of “Google Earth”. According to Google this tool allows the user to: Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in. Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. Save and share […]
While google has long been collecting video from users they now offer playback functionality provided that you download and install their “Google Video Viewer“. An interesting innovation over other video search services is that Google allows the owners to charge a fee to watch the video. Hmmm … I wonder if this can be tied […]
Welcome to the June 14, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. The past couple weeks have provided for some interesting changes in the search engine world. Google has brought us some major updates and that’s not all … Jack’s House Beanstalk, in response […]
For some unfortunate souls SEO is simply the learning of tricks and techniques that, according to their understanding, should propel their site into the top rankings on the major search engines. This understanding of the way SEO works can be effective for a time however it contains one basic flaw … the rules change. Search […]
On the WebmasterWorld forums there’s a chap there going by the nic “Googleguy”. This gentleman claims to work for Google and gives advice from that perspective. For those familiar with this forum and with Googleguy you have to admit an odd duality in your reaction. While forums are more-or-less anonymous and in reality Googleguy could […]
Recent number from W3Schools.com on browser stats show Firefox making HUGE gains against Internet Explorer in the war of the browsers. In May of 2004 Mozilla (makers of Firefox) had 11% of online users with IE coming in at about 85%. One year later (and after the launch of Firefox in 2005) Mozilla is now […]
Welcome to the May 25, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the bi-weekly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. Since the last newsletter there have been a number of notable events, including purchases by some of the major engines and updates by others. So without further ado … let’s get to […]
Never one to let his competitors keep any type of advantage, MSN has announced the the “beta” launch of “Virtual Earth” – their answer to the additiona of satellite images to Google Maps. What makes it different is that the images MSN will provide are taken not from satellite but from sleughs of planes and […]
First, an appology that there was no SEO Blog post yesterday. Unfortunately, due to some issues with our Blogger account (the issue being we couldn’t log in) we were unable to enter a post yesterday. But it appears to be corrected. 🙂 Today’s post is more of a heads-up than specific advice. While for many […]