Google Webmaster Tools Upgrades their Crawl Errors Feature

Posted by matt on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Google, SEO Tools No Comments
Webmaster Tools Now Feature Sources of Crawl Errors

This week Google added another source of useful data to the crawl error section of their Webmaster Tools. The original addition of this feature to the popular tools in August 2006 allowed account holders to view the types and counts of server crawl errors such as URLS not found, not followed, restricted and timed out. [...]

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Google Earth/Maps About To Get Even Sweeter

Posted by matt on Friday, October 10th, 2008 Google, Technology No Comments
GeoEye-1

Just before noon (EDT) on September 6 2008, GeoEye (formerly ORBIMAGE) successfully launched the highest resolution and most accurate commercial imaging satelite, GeoEye-1, into orbit from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.. This week, on October 7, an image of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was returned, the first location seen by the satellite when [...]

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Microsoft Research Unveils Social Search Engine ‘uRank’

Posted by matt on Friday, October 10th, 2008 news, Social Media No Comments
uRank Social Search Engine

Microsoft Research has released a new social search engine prototype called “uRank”. Social search engines boast personalization features such as allowing users to move search results around to better suit their tastes, and share information with others. uRank “…allows people to organize, edit and annotate search results…to better support people as they are exploring a [...]

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Happy 10th Birthday Google

Posted by matt on Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Google, news No Comments
Google

11 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin renamed their university search engine research project from Backrub to Google; registering the domain Google.com on 11 September 1997. When the 2 Stanford computer science grad students incorporated Google a year later in a friend’s garage on 7 September 1998, they undoubtedly had no idea that Google [...]

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