I recently returned from a vacation to Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand. It was a ton of fun and I hope to blog about it at some point — each country was of course unique and each offered different, wonderful experiences
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Call for spam reports in five languages
(I’m traveling, but lots of good stuff from the recent SMX West search conference is now live — plus some new stuff — so I wanted to talk about it.) At the SMX West search conference I did an Ignite talk about Google’s SEO audit that it did on itself. This was part of a global week of Ignite talks. An Ignite talk has 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, for a total of five minutes.
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Google SEO Report Card, SMX West, plus new features
(I’m in the middle of traveling, but I know that a lot of people will be interested in the news that Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in determining search rankings . I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts.) The main thing I want to get across is: don’t panic.
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Google incorporating site speed in search rankings
Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search . The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go
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Google stars for bookmarking
[Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.] Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders
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Clarifying a couple points
In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video .
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Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp
Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009.
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My speaking plans for 2010
Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa
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Chrome support for Greasemonkey
Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches : Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters.
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Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking
Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes . This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy