Confessions of a die-hard Google groupie

The guys at alltooflat.com created a Google mirror, literally. Very funny. Even the search results it produces are backwards. The default active button is the I’m-feeling-lucky, or in this case: ykcuL gnileeF m’I!

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Some must-see videos and documentaries about Google:

Google Behind the Screen
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Want to help Matt Cutts get dressed in the morning? Now you can! Cartoon Doll Emporium has developed a Matt Cutts dress-up doll.

More Matt Cutts fun: Thomas at omtalk.com has launched a Matt Cutts Vacation countdown clock (beta naturally) to count the seconds until Matt is back at the Googleplex from his vacation.

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On Tuesday, Google has launched its attack om Microsoft’s Excel with its very own spreadsheet program called Google Spreadsheets. It doesn’t have all the powerful features that Excel has (yet!) but it’s free and web-based. Continue reading →

Google groups results are creeping into the organic SERPs.

 

This caught my attention while riding the escalator in a London underground station.

Turns out it’s a platform for art project by Transport for London. The artist’s name is Ugo Rondinone and his work was on display at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Too bad I’m too late to go and see it…

Speakers: Peter Linsley (senior product manager at Ask.com), John Riccardi (Product Manager at Yahoo! Search Europe), Aaron D’Souza (Software Engineer at Google Inc.) Continue reading →

Speakers: Cam Balzer (Performics Inc), Alex Vlasto (Miva), Mark Rogers (Market Sentinel).

First speaker is Cam Balzer. His presentation is about how search can be used to catch the buzz that is created with offline marketing. He describes a change in the US marketing landscape: marketers are beginning to look at search.
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Speakers: Chris Sherman (executive editor at searchnginwatch.com), Mike Grehan (Smart Interactive), Ken McGaffin (LinkingMatters), Nathan Wood (ask.com)

Mike Grehan starts off (great voice, like yesterday ) by advising to get as many links as possible from inside your community (your topical community that is). You should especially pay attention to:
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Speakers: Danny Sullivan (searchenginewatch.com), Shari Thurow (grantasticdesigns.com) and Alan Perkins (SilverDisc)

Alan Perkins is first and starts by stressing that site architecture is fundamentally important to achieve good organic rankings because it is the skeleton that everything else is built on. He goes on to explain the difference between information architecture and technical architecture.

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