Category: search.engines
Apparently Google has secretly been working on “the next generation of Google Search … an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine.” And you can be…
Graywolf — the search guy not the book publishing company — shows how to turn off personalized search by default in Google Chrome. You can also get plugins…
Many years ago, as a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus in part on the linguistic model in literary criticism, I…
The image at right is a selection from my inlinks tag in Google Reader. It shows websites that have been linking to mine (these are all via Google…
Today’s guest post at ForeWord Magazine is about how book publishers can increase traffic to their websites. .
What would cause Google to label the San Francisco Ballet website as porn? Please see the post on this subject at FriscoVista.
A few months ago, scholars from the University of Graz in Austria released a 187-page pdf document, entitled Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines,…
Publisher 010 Uitgeverij has made what I think is probably a smart decision to put their 2004 title Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp in Google Book Search. Of…
There’s a nice selection of (mostly) postwar Polish posters at a Grayspace Poster Gallery. I’ve set the background to white in the selections above, using the “remove background…
I like Matt McGee’s summary of the NYT article on Google search.
If you do an image search on Google and then append &imgtype=face to the end of the url, what do you get? You get only faces as results….
I’ve been working on a bibliography for a book about Chinese jades. Many of the listings were incomplete, and I had to search a variety of sources to…
Over at Google Blogoscoped they’ve been talking about Google results for the query “how to get a …” Seems the things people appear to want are a passport,…
Are you in shape for following step 12 in the instructions shown in the screen capture? Via Google Blogoscoped. While at GB, check out Raymond Chandler’s 1953 mention…
Google Maps offers the following: Click image for more info.
Wikipedia announced recently that it is going back to adding the “nofollow” attribute to its outbound links in an attempt to keep people from gaming the system to…
In D-Lib magazine David Bearman provides an abstract of the argument Jean-Noël Jeanneney (President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France) presents in his Google and the Myth of…
Speaking of SEO, here is a list of the SEO-related sites that have feeds I subscribe to. (I’m just an amateur who got into this when my website…
It’s beginning to seem that way. As soon as anyone says anyone negative about search engine optimizing, the SEO community (or, to be fair, one faction of it)…
I found this in one of my gmail spam folders.