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- Google’s Speech Recognition Fails
I used the Google for Search app on my iphone tonight for the first time. I wanted to look up the names of the three tenors, so I tapped the voice icon and said “the three tenors”. Unfortunately it did not fully understand my accent and instead thought I was wanting to find “history tennis”. [...] - Military Humor
For those of you who are into military humor, I had to repost these set of pictures, which came to me via email. I’m glad they still have a sense of humor with all the stuff they have to deal with. Thanks to all the service men and women keeping America safe. - Google TrustRank Myth Busted!
I will show you that there's no such thing as Google TrustRank, which many SEOs believe is a mechanism that Google uses to determine the trustworthiness of a website. Included here is a transcript from Matt Cutts and snippets from the US Patent and Trademark Office documents. - Warning - Anhydrous Ammonia and Propane Tanks
This message is a warning originally sent from the FBI: For those of you who like to grill it up during the summer, here’s a safety announcement you should be aware of. Please put this information out to ALL personnel. For those of you who exchange your propane tanks, this is something you definitely need to [...] - First Glance Comparing New vs Old Google Analytics Tracking Codes
I installed the new ga.js tracking script on this blog a few weeks ago and decided to take a look today to see if there are any reporting differences. Here’s what I found for the same time period: Google Traffic Old New Total Visits: 1293 1047 Pages Per Visit: 1.28 1.57 Avg Time on Site: 00:00:23 00:01.01 Unique Referring Phrases: 783 765 Here’s a couple of screenshots of the top referring [...] - ECNext Wins 2007 TopCAT Innovation Award
Our CEO announced today that we came in first place for the Outstanding Product (less than 50 employees) category in the prestigious TechColumbus TopCAT Innovation Awards. We were up against some tough competition from some local companies with very cool products, so it’s very exciting that ECNext was chosen. In Jan 2007 ECNext also won the category [...] - New Google Analytics Tracking Code (ga.js)
I’ve been a little preoccupied lately and tonight I decided to try out the new Google Analytics tracking code, which uses ga.js instead of urchin.js. To do this, I created a new profile, then added the new code in the footer.inc for this Wordpress theme. This weekend I’ll be comparing results to see if there’s [...] - My Thoughts On Google knol
Google could be heading down a slippery slope with Youtube and now knol. Their organic search results are meant to be unbiased and provide the most relevant results for any given query. In 2000 Google launched Google Adwords and we started seeing sponsored search results. That was ok, the ads were clearly marked and listed [...] - SEO Client Story
I used to work for an SEO agency in Pittsburgh and dealt with a number of interesting clients in a variety of industries, with large and small sites. There were a number of funny incidents that I encountered, which I’d like to recount here, although names will be withheld. No Google Traffic After taking on this client [...] - Optimizing PDFs for Search Engines
At pubcon I listened to a session by George Aspland about various techniques to optimize PDF files for search engines. Part of his ongoing research is to see whether links within a PDF file pass link juice. To test this, he asked if session members would download and republish one of his PDF files. So [...]
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