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So, April Fools 2008 Begins - 1st Up Google Australia
Google Australia offers gDay with MATE:
About gDay technology
The core technology that powers gDay is MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).
Using MATE’s machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.
From the gDay Press Release:
gDay was developed in Google’s [...]
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Background
There has always been a lot of mystery surrounding the online marketing industry especially Search Engine Optimization. There are even some that consider the efforts of SEO as selling “snake oil” and even some discredit the industry as a whole because of perceived SEO practices that will get your website blacklisted.
Chris Boggs at Search [...]
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Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power [...]
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Google recently began experimenting with a new site search box within results:
Through experimentation, we found that presenting users with a search box as part of the result increases their likelihood of finding the exact page they are looking for. So over the past few days we have been testing, and today we have fully rolled [...]
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It has been a long time since I have posted, but as far as moving to Cleveland and getting acclimated to the area (and the weather), we are almost done!
Happy Easter everyone, and there will be more from pittfall in the near future!
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