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The Latest On Panda Straight From Google

Chris Crum — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:58:55 +0000

Google’s Matt Cutts engaged in a live chat with webmasters on YouTube, and had some things to say about the Panda update. Barry Schwartz posted the above video , capturing a Panda-related segment of the chat, in which Cutts discusses the update. “It came from the search quality team,” he says. “It didn’t come from the web spam team, so web spam engineers have been collaborating with search quality folks on it since the initial launch, but it originated from the search quality team, and it’s just an algorithmic change that TENDS to rank lower quality sites lower, which allows higher quality sites to rank higher, so it’s not a penalty, and I talked about how algorithms are re-computed, so there’s been no manual exceptions.” “I don’t expect us to have any manual exceptions to Panda,” he says. “This is something where the signal is computed, and then when the signal is re-computed, if the sites are slightly different, then that can change the sites that are affected, and we’re going to keep iterating.” “So we’ve had Panda version 1 in February and Panda version 2 in April I believe, and…possibly March…and that started to use blocking of sites along with some other signals,” he continues. “And then we’ve had smaller amounts of iterations…” Referring to before the update came about, he says, “We had heard a lot of complaints. We’ve been working on it even before we’d heard a lot of the complaints to try and make sure that lower quality sites were not ranking as highly in Google search results.” He then mentions the list of questions Google released a few weeks ago for content providers to ask themselves about their own content quality. The list, he says, “Helps to step into the Google mindset and how we think about these sorts of things.” In the talk, Cutts mentioned that the update will still roll out internationally in other languages in time, “maybe in the next couple months”. So far, it’s been launched globally, but only in the English language.

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Is There Any Work At Home Deals That Are Not Total Scams?

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:54:35 +0000

I would like to be able to work from home to be able to keep my 2 children at home. Can anyone recommend a business that is legit? Thanks.

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Matt Cutts on Overlooked Items from Searchology

Chris Crum — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:14:24 +0000

Yesterday Google held its Searchology event and announced a number of new things. The big announcements, which were widely covered included: – Search Options – Google Squared – Richer Snippets – Android Sky Map Application Google’s Matt Cutts pulled some other interesting things from the event that some may have overlooked amidst the whirlwind of Google news. "I noticed several tidbits that I don’t think we’ve ever said in public before," says Cutts. First he mentions Google’s internal code names for spell-check features. These include the normal "Did you mean:" spell check link at the top of the results, but also the mid-page suggestions (codename: Chameleon): And the more aggressive Spellmeleon, which includes a couple results for the corrected query. Cutts says this is for when Google really thinks the user messed up. He also notes that this feature is a tremendous help for is webspam team because it pretty much eliminates the chances of users going on to results that spammers have targeted for typos. Other things Cutts pulled out of Searchology include: – mobile search results are blended between results from the mobile web and results from the regular web. – 1 in 4 searches triggers a universal/blended search result – 40% of searches on any given day are repeat searches for that user (a reason that SearchWiki can be useful) – Links to Jayant Madhavan’s paper on what Google is doing to crawl the deep web – Also links to each slide from the event The event was a big one for Google and Google enthusiasts in terms of items of interest. Google rolls out some new product or feature to a product nearly every day, but at Searchology we got a bunch of stuff to think about.

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Google Referral Change Linked to Faster Search Results Experiment

Chris Crum — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:53:17 +0000

This week, it was announced that Google was making changes to search referral URLs . Basically, where URLs looked like this before: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search They will start looking more like this: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http2F2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=flowers&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw You can read a bit more about that here . Web technologist Niall Kennedy suggested that this was probably a change being made to better track search actions and shield URL parameters from sites downstream. Alex Chitu at the blog Google Operating System had a different and frankly, more interesting theory , which is that it is a solution for the lack of referral information in a future Ajax interface. Matt Cutts recently explained in the following clip that Google was testing AJAX results on a small number of users to open up potentially faster searching capabilities. Listening to him discuss how this would affect analytics puts the URL changes a little bit more into perspective. Chitu’s theory was confirmed when a Google spokesperson told CNET that this was the reasoning for the referral URL change. "These guys are working hard to make things milliseconds faster. They’re always experimenting," the spokesperson said. In the above video, Cutts says the experiment is only available to less than 1% of Google users. Basically what it does is loads search results without loading the entire page each time a new search is performed. Milliseconds indeed.

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