Category Archives: Google

Get URL for Searches in Safari 6

Posted on August 2, 2012

There have been many articles and conversations about the question of how to get the URL of a Google search in Safari 6. Some solutions include using the Terminal to get the URL, using AppleScript,  using bookmarklets, and using Automator. I … Continue reading →

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Ten Blue Links

Posted on January 11, 2012

Remember when Google was ten blue links? Today, for the first time, I was actually taken aback by the amount of visual crap on Google results.

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The Google +1 Sprite Animation

Posted on June 9, 2011

How the +1 Button Works The +1 Button uses an advanced sprite technique to simulate an animated gif. The animation occurs when hovering over search results with +1 enabled, and the shine moves across the button. (The image to the … Continue reading →

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Google Rewrites Your Search Result Titles for Relevance

Posted on January 7, 2011

Google is changing your titles for you…whether they’re “optimized” or not! Google is overruling your title tags when they determine that your content headlines are more relevant. Previously, I had only seen this behavior when there were not well-structured title … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Interspire Google Base Feed

Posted on August 17, 2010

Google Base updates their guidelines faster than Interspire updates its Shopping Cart. Upon launching the new MakeUpMania.com website, I discovered that the XML feed that Interspire generates for Google Base is not properly structured. There were many hits and misses … Continue reading →

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How to prevent your Google background image from fading in slowly.

Posted on June 7, 2010

Google + slow loading = not worth having background images. In trying to keep their homepage as minimal as possible, in December Google switched to fading in the home page links only on an event: moving your mouse or tabbing … Continue reading →

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Google Place Pages – Google Finally Shows its Answer to Yelp.com

Posted on September 25, 2009

Google finally goes “local directory” in Place Pages Google had been lagging behind sites like Yelp.com in providing a place to find information about businesses. If you did a local search, you would have a “More info…” link that would … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Frame Plugin for WordPress

Posted on September 23, 2009

Google Chrome Frame — the Beginning of the End of IE Tyranny? Google just introduced a new tactic in the browser wars, and this one’s juicy. It’s called Google Chrome Frame. What it does is it makes Internet Explorer render … Continue reading →

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SEO Google Profiles – Google Adds NoFollow to Links

Posted on September 16, 2009

Just a quick post to show that Google has started to nofollow all links on new Google Profiles.  This is too bad for a quick SEO shot in the arm, but also makes sense, since most of the people who … Continue reading →

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How to Create a Google Profile and Manage your Online Reputation

Posted on May 20, 2009

As seen on 7News – View the video on TheDenverChannel.com Why Google Profiles matter to you Receive monthly tips like this one on how to get online exposure Receive monthly emailed tips As featured on the May 20th 7News program … Continue reading →

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