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 help you make content in your blog be more accessible to your users via MTs…… Continue reading How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines

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 writes extensively about Vivisimo, he also touches on some other interesting search refinement tools, such…… Continue reading Refining searches

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]

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 that search is now so important that it should be regulated, just like telecom and…… Continue reading Is Google good for you?

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 Blog the ~ character was chosen because it’s shorthand for approximate and a good way…… Continue reading Google adds ‘~’ operator

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 writes about her initial response in her article Does Google’s AdSense Make Sense? Her point…… Continue reading More about Google Adsense

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 and I’m automatically updated on postings. Just wish I could put more blogs than Evan’s…… Continue reading GoogleGuy Says

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 engine. Its going to be interesting to see if Overture, which made its money from…… Continue reading Googles only real competitor bought by Overture

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.