Recording from the 4th Search Quality Alliance Hangout, live with webmasters from around the world.
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As it stands, the internet offers considerable opportunity for Australia in terms of economics and cultural opportunities. The media sector is a catalyst for growth via the internet and it is improving the available choices to consumers and allowing new creators and producers to access thousands of people through the internet.
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If you have a site that manages a great amount of content, mostly ecommerce sites or news, pagination issues will come around. That leads to duplicate content issues and what not, similar pages broken up, or large pieces of content spread to several pages, there is a good way to deal with that, a few actually.
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Google’s search quality department announced 50 important changes which took place in March this year.
Here’s the summary:
- Symbols: Inclusion in autocomplete.
- Symbols: Improved indexing.
- News Results: Scoring system for news groups improved.
- Sitelinks: Fresher and faster updates.
- Autocomplete: Now takes up less resources to run (internal improvement).
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Buy the entire contents of YouTube on 567,711 discs for only $2,892,179.
If the main URL doesn’t work for you, try the cached page (it works well).
Shipping Options:
- Stick with DVDs
- Videocassette
- Laser Disc
- Betamax Tape
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Ever wondered how your website traffic sounds like? Well now you can hear it thanks to Google Analytics.
Last year I did something nerdy and cool. I exported our website traffic data in CSV and converted it into MIDI. The notes found their way into a music composition program called “Reason” and made much noise that afternoon.
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A fully functional 8-bit NES style Google Maps as a very elaborate April’s Fools Joke from Google this year.
This is what it looks like:
To enable it hover over the map options and select QUEST:
Here’s the promo video:
More on: http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/begin-your-quest-with-google-maps-8-bit.html
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Search engine spam was created by people looking to gain the upper hand in the SEO race and lazy marketers that want everything on auto pilot. It exists to trick search engines into thinking that a website should have a higher ranking than it actually deserves.
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Yes way! Google has just announced that they now support 3D graph functionality using WebGL [1].
Last year Google introduced graphing support capable of plotting simpler 2D functions [2]. This feature has now been upgraded to support the extra display dimension thanks to WebGL.
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