Google can pull up a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001. From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear it’s not an exact version, but that they can do it at all is impressive. Could your company pull up a backup of anything from [...]
The USPS sent the promotional comic book about Google’s new browser a day early to Philipp Lenssen. While everyone else wonders what this means for the browser cold war, I’m much more interested in the messenger. Who thinks of launching a web browser by mailing a paper comic book to tech bloggers? I’m not sure what [...]
A good summary of the coverage already out there for Google’s new-ish “suggest a result” feature over at Search Engine Land. Unfortunately, one bit of confusion exists (as I already pointed out in a thread at WebmasterWorld): After you submit the URL, it takes you to http://www.google.com/reviews/w/nominate, which is a 404 page for me. It does, [...]
Do yourself a favor and read this post by Dan Thies. I don’t have much to say about it right now, but this is a “as it happens alert” for anyone worried about black hat competitors.