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Norwegian SEO company banned from Google
Google Analytics and why Google is giving away thousands of dollars
Search Engine video lectures
A little more about Google
Search TV with Google
Search Engine Optimization
How to get thrown out of Google
The official Google blog
Google knowledge
How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines

Norwegian SEO company banned from Google
Norwegian SEO company Prioritet and their customers excluded from the Google index (0 comment(s))

Google Analytics and why Google is giving away thousands of dollars
Google has just launched its new service "Google Analytics". Its an evolved version of the Urchin analytics system that you once had to pay up to $2500 a year to use. So why has Google bought a business just... (0 comment(s))

Search Engine video lectures
Seems like interesting lectures. Search Engine Watch writes: Sergey Brin: The Video Lecture Google execs are all over the place talking all things Google these days. Several weeks ago Danny blogged about Professor Marti Hearst's "awesome" UC Berkeley class featuring... (0 comment(s))

A little more about Google
Urs Hoelzle, VP of engineering at Google lets us in on some of the secrets of how Google can keep it search results fast and its service so reliable in this interview with CNet news. Google's secret of success? Dealing... (0 comment(s))

Search TV with Google
This is an interesting announcement through the Google Blog: Google Video is a new product that enables you to search an index of transcripts from recent TV programs. It's just an early-stage beta product at this point; you'll only see... (2 comment(s))

Search Engine Optimization
Save yourself the trouble of hiring a bad SEO, take a few minutes to read about search engine optimization does and donts. (1 comment(s))

How to get thrown out of Google
Virtuelvis writes about Googles decision to remove Radisson SAS (major hotel chain) from their search engine after intentionally spamming Googles database. Spam and be punished Norwegian digi.no is reporting as their main headline of the day that the Radisson SAS... (0 comment(s))

The official Google blog
Its been interesting to follow the Google Blog since its birth the 10th of may. Its still early days and just a few posts out. But when a large company like Google releases an official blog, its bound to be... (0 comment(s))

Google knowledge
I've been fascinated with Google since they first started offering their service. When they first started all the other available search engines was full of spam and it was almost impossible to find anything useful with them. Google revolutionised search... (0 comment(s))

How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines
Nice article with many good tips from fellow norwegian blogger Anders Jacobsen: Optimizing Movable Type - Keyword links While it will be interesting to see if the keywords will help making the search engines find blog entries, his tip will... (1 comment(s))

Refining searches
Interesting article by Brian Berstein about Tools that refine web searches. Brian writes about Vivisimo that groups searches from Google in a more intuitive way. Seems to work OK for English, but not so good for other languages. While Brian... (0 comment(s))

Need to search blogs?
Ari Paparo has put together an impressive list of Blog Search Engines I honestly didn't know that there was so many services out there to search blogs and their feeds. [Via Digme via Weblog Hype]... (0 comment(s))

Is Google good for you?
Bill Thompson at BBC World Service asks the question Is Google good for you? He talks about how Google has become more commercial, and claims that we are all suffering because of it. He actually goes as far as suggesting... (0 comment(s))

Google adds '~' operator
Google Weblog: Big News! New Google Operator So what is the big deal? The ~ operator adds the ability to search for synonyms of the keyword marked with the "~". Example: weblog help and weblog ~help According to the Google... (3 comment(s))

More about Google Adsense
The Google Weblog has discovered that you can check out what ads would be shown on any given website. Interesting stuff: Try Before You Sell Not everyone believe that Google Adsense is a good idea: Pamela Parker at ClickZ Today... (3 comment(s))

Google AdSense makes sense
Googles new advertisment service Google AdSense was launched this week, and I have had the chance to test it for a couple of days, and I must say I am very impressed.... (4 comment(s))

GoogleGuy Says
This is very interesting: A blog with quotes from Google staff's Usenet postings. Instead of having to keep updated on various Usenet groups and Google staffs postings there, all I have to do is add GoogleGuy Says to my blog-reader... (1 comment(s))

Googles only real competitor bought by Overture
In the news today (Google news): The purchase of AllTheWeb.com and its technology from Fast Search and Transfer to Overture Services Inc for 100 million US dollars. That, just a week after they announced their takeover of the Altavista search... (4 comment(s))

Google vs Evil
Interesting article in Wired: Google vs. Evil, its about the challenges facing Google as it (to use Wired's words) matures into teenage, its interesting to get small glimpses into the culture that drives Google.... (0 comment(s))

Google viewer
A cool new way to watch search results are shown with the Google Viewer, fresh out of the Google labs. I am ever amazed how fresh and clued this company is :-) Must be perfect for people that just want... (0 comment(s))

More search engines indexing Flash
Its nice to see Fast (Alltheweb.com, Lycos, Scandinavia Online, InfoSpace, T-Online, and Tiscali) start to include information gathered from swfs in their search index. From before Google and Atomz have been indexing SWFs for their search engines. Atomz recently expanded... (0 comment(s))

Google Zeitgeist or statistics galore
Interesting Google resource - Zeitgeist, it gives insight into what has been on peoples minds in the way that it shows what people have been looking for at Google. [Via Mario Klingemann]... (0 comment(s))

Vanity search
Ok, this is just vanity stuff, I don't have a vanity plate (if I did, it would probably be jdb something or the other), but I can have my fun with a vanity search. How about my first name on... (2 comment(s))

Fun with Google API
The last days, trying to keep updated on the Macromedia Studio MX releases, its been fun to keep updated with the Google API. The resources at Macromedia instantly showed up at Google almost at the time they were released, and... (0 comment(s))

Google reveals API
This is great news for people wanting to hook into the most powerful search engine on the web. Google has released its API (basically an interface towards its huge database of websites) Google Web APIs With the Google Web APIs... (0 comment(s))

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gallery.bergersen.net - my collection of digital photos taken all over the world
webdevindex.org - my database of web development tools and services
jarle på norsk - my norwegian weblog.
jarle.bergersen.net - my info, cv etc.
terje blog - my brothers weblog
speakerboxx - my step daughter Camilles blog

Anders Jacobsen - Fellow norwegian blogging in English from France. Anders blogs about "Noteworthy URLs, science, software, news, life, the universe, everything"
Doc Searls - one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto. He is frequently blogging live from interesting technology events, and is a very good writer
The EGR weblog - Chris Locke is another of the authors behind Cluetrain, and also the author of Gonzo Marketing. This guy has a lot on his mind, and not afraid to share it
rc6.org - The weblog of Remco Brink, dutch linux and open source enthousiast. Frequently updated with interesting news
Virtuelvis - fellow norwegian blogger Arve Bersvendsens blogs in english about web and technology. Well worth a visit