How To REALLY Use Google Part Four

October 10, 2008

How To REALLY Use Google Part Four
 by: Andrew Wroblewski
In the previous three installments of this series, we covered a wide variety of different search features and strategies using the (currently) most popular search engine: Google.com
Today, I am going to take one of the earlier techniques of using the “wildcard” function “*” (the asterisk symbol, you [...]

How To REALLY Use Google Part One

October 9, 2008

How To REALLY Use Google Part One
 by: Andrew Wroblewski
In a matter of a couple of short years, the Google.com search engine has become the world’s favorite way to find what they’re looking for online.
Now, most of you who are reading this are saying “Duh”, but let me ask you this: Do you REALLY know how [...]

The Yahoo - Google Battle - (Index) Size Matters!

October 7, 2008

The Yahoo - Google Battle - (Index) Size Matters!
 by: Peter Faber
Yahoo got more pages indexed than Google. And an enormous amount more. It seems that the Yahoo index is more than twice the size of the Google index. Recently this was also announced by Yahoo, even though they generally don’t comment on index sizes.
However, a [...]

How To REALLY Use Google Part Two

October 4, 2008

How To REALLY Use Google Part Two
 by: Andrew Wroblewski
In “Part One” we discussed some of the more basic Google search techniques. (If you missed it you can find it here: http://spyware.pcwash.com/articles_1.html
As promised, here’s the “juicier stuff”.
Google has some advanced search options which come in quite handy, depending on what items you may be searching.
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How To REALLY Use Google Part Three

September 29, 2008

How To REALLY Use Google Part Three
 by: Andrew Wroblewski
In Part One, we covered the basics of searching on Google.com and in Part Two we moved into more advanced search techniques. In today’s third installment we will peer into some ways of using Google you may have never thought of or knew existed.
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Googles Own AdSense Tips

August 30, 2008

Google is at least as interested as you are in having your ads perform well on your site. And they’ve gone to some work to provide the information you need to optimize your AdSense.
What’s fascinating to me is that apparently not everyone bothers to read their tips. And even some that do, fail to apply [...]

Get Your New Website Listed In Google In 24 Hours

August 27, 2008

Get Your New Website Listed In Google In 24 Hours
 by: Robin Dary
Yes, Google is big but you can get your site listed in 24 to 48 hours. Go to Google and look at “Submit a Site”. STOP! That is exactly what everyone does and it takes months to get listed that way.
Now you if want [...]

Google Is Not Only A Search Engine!

August 19, 2008

When you now organize a street interview and ask people “What is Google”, I assume more than 90 percent of the people answer that Google is a search engine. Indeed, Google is a search engine and it is probably its core business, but Google is much more!
A short overview of the main services of Google:
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