smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com - 2/2/2009
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Yes, I know… Google has been offering AJAX driven results through the API and other services for ages, but now they have rolled that out to the main Google Search. It appears to be only on Google US (I tried manually switching to Google UK, and it redirected me from the AjAX version to a ...
mail.google.com - 2/3/2009
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mail.google.com —
Sign in to personalize your Google experience. Google
has more to offer when you sign in to...
your Google Account. You can customize pages, view recommendations, and get more relevant search results. Sign in on the right or create one for free using ...
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seroundtable.com - 2/3/2009
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seroundtable.com —
Over night, for about four hours, Google's SMS
search feature sent dozens of SMS messages to Google...
SMS users over and over again. There are dozens of threads complaining about the issue, but the two largest threads have hundreds of... ...
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Google Mistakenly Sends Dozens of Unwanted SMS Messages ...
readwriteweb.com - 2/4/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
Where you are is as important as what
you're looking for. That's why more and more services...
are looking to location as a filter for providing relevant information when and where we need it. So it only makes sense that Google - a company known for its ...
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Google Latitude: Ready to Tell Your Friends (and Google) ...
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Google Switching To AJAX Search Result Pages?
Search Engine Roundtable —
The SEO Smackdown blog reports that they noticed Google switching "completely" to AJAX based search results. This can put a huge damper in rank checking tools, that scrap the Google search results. Most people are not seeing the Google search results pages render in AJAX, not yet at least. But if this does happen, we can start hearing scandals of ...
Is Google Being “Evil”? Plans to Annihilate their Analytics Competition with Ajax?
The Next Web —
... sent anything after the ‘#’ and therefore applications such as analytics tools can’t receive information as to what people are searching for leaving competitors to Google Analytics, dead.
Clicky, one of Google Analytics competitiors is right to be concerned. As Wayne Smallman, of blablatech points out this a “game changer and not in a good way”.
Read More:
Smackdown, ClickyBlog,
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Google Change Breaks Third-Party Analytics Tools
SitePoint —
... A couple of days ago blogger Michael VanDeMar wrote that Google appeared to be testing AJAX search in the US. VanDeMar noticed that URL of his Google queries switched from the familiar “/search?=” to “/search?#=” The # is a visual cue of a “page change” for the user, and allows the browser’s back and forward buttons to make AJAX calls. ...
Google Search Prepares for Switching to Ajax
Google Operating System —
In February, many people noticed that Google tested a new interface for search results. The test didn't include any new feature and Google even loaded the standard search results page to display the results. An unfortunate side-effect of the new format was that Google didn't load a new page to display the results and browsers didn't send proper referrals when clicking on search results. ...
Ranking Data in Google Referrer String
Google Blogoscoped —
... What portion of URLs specifically contain this query string? I can’t reproduce this, but for now it should be related to URLs which come from result pages delivered via ...
Google Widens Search Lead, Prepares to Make Search Even Faster
ReadWriteWeb —
... blog, figured out what this was all about. It related to a search experiment Google was running back in February that displayed an alternative Google interface that was coded completely in AJAX. Chitu believed the change in the referrer code was necessary to fix an unintended consequence of the experiment - ...
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