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Tue
15
Aug '06

Real-Time Stock Quotes Back!

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Excerpt: OK, so it was just a temporary thing.  Phew!  Now my little application that watches stocks can resume its duties :) ...
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Thu
10
Aug '06

Real-Time Stock Quotes Gone from Google?

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Excerpt: Oh no!  Real-time (ECN) stock quotes appear to be gone from both the condensed and the detailed Google Finance views.  Hopefully, it's just a fluke and it will be back tomorrow.  Take a look:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=AMD&btnG=Google+Searchhttp://www.google.com/f ...
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Wed
9
Aug '06

Stop googling for Hotties!

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Excerpt: You might get sued!  Expect Google to mail lots of legal letters as they make a desperate effort to protect their ailing trademark.  Google has become almost synonymous with search -- and if they aren't careful, they'll end up like "Band-aid," "Spam," and " ...
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Mon
7
Aug '06

"Preferred Domain" Feature Added to Sitemaps

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Excerpt: Google just added a curious new feature to Sitemaps, now renamed "Webmaster Central."  It allows the webmaster to specify whether he or she prefers a site be indexed as www.example.com or example.com.  It is documented here.  This is curious for a few reasons:1. BigDaddy was ...
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Mon
7
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Gems: Part III

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Excerpt: This is a summary of the videos located at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-reinclusion-requests/ and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-tips-for-ses-san-jose-2006/ titled "Video: Reinclusion requests," and "Video: Tips for SES San Jose 2006," respectively.  The latter i ...
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Thu
3
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Gems: Part II

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Excerpt: This is a summary of the videos located at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/another-two-videos/ titled "Another two videos," and dated August 3, 2006.  Note: As before, my opinions are in italics to indicate where I'm expressing an opinion, not citing Matt. 1) All IPs in a particular ...
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Wed
2
Aug '06

Matt Cutts Brand(tm) Gems

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Excerpt: Matt Cutts has a blog filled with lots of good stuff, and lots of boring stuff.  Even some of the SEO stuff is mundane and basic, so I decided I'd filter it out and enumerate the gems from his new videos.  Unfortunately, though Matt's videos are super cool and employ totally cool s ...
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Fri
21
Jul '06

Google Robots.txt Snafu: Part II

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Excerpt: I decided that I would test what I think is an inconsistency in the interpretation of the robots.txt specification by various implementors cited here.I created a robots.txt file for this site that is contrived to test how various spiders interpret the specification.  Here it is:User-agent: *Dis ...
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