My favorite books of 2008 (so far) Okay, so we’re more than halfway through 2008. I’m a voracious reader, and I wanted to share my favorite books that I read in the first half of 2008. 1. American Shaolin. Matthew Polly gre

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The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!) As a follow-up to my recent post about how user reports of webspam and paid links help improve Google's search results for millions of users, I wanted to highlight one of the most essential parts of G

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SES: Panels, Award & Foosball Victory, Oh My The Yahoo! Search team was in San Jose last week at Search Engine Strategies, and in addition to participating in panel discussions on semantic search, shopping search tactics and searcher behavior, w

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Three tips for “company blogging” This is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few

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silver_medal_count++ Since both tennis and table tennis are in the Olympics, perhaps you're wondering: if there's soccer, why not "table soccer?" Of course, we know table soccer by another name; and while foosball may no

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Discover Yahoo! oneSearch in One Click on Nokia Devices The Yahoo! Mobile team has continued to develop new enhancements to make Yahoo! oneSearch easier and more effective for our users on the go. Today, we're further enhancing the mobile search experien

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Hey Google, I no longer have badware This post is for anyone who has been emailed or notified by Google about badware, received a badware warning when browsing their own site using Firefox, or has come across malware-labeled search resul

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Site Explorer Gets a Makeover A few years ago, we launched Site Explorer with the goal of providing site owners with better visibility into how we index their websites and what data we use in our search service. Over the years we'

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Make your 404 pages more useful Your visitors may stumble into a 404 "Not found" page on your website for a variety of reasons: A mistyped URL, or a copy-and-paste mistake Broken or truncated links on web pages or in a

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Yahoo! at SES San Jose With Search Engine Strategies starting this week, we get a sneak peek from Vice President Larry Cornett on his panel on how searchers interact with search engines on Wednesday at 1 - 2:15 p.m. Also yo

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