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Google switches Gmail to https by default

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Les Jones

Information Week – Google: We’re Encrypting Everyone’s Gmail Automatically: Whether or not the timing of this announcement has anything to do with Google’s recent actions in the Chinese market is unknown. The company today said that it is switching Gmail … Continue reading →

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Google Docs

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Les Jones

Megan McArdle: Wedding planning tool of the century:  Google Docs.  I just realized you can email a form to your guests and have them put in their addresses, which go straight into a spreadsheet.  This was too valuable not to … Continue reading →

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Google throws a bone to Rupert Murdoch

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Les Jones

News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch has been making a stink about charging for news and getting control of his content away from search engines (read: Google). Google News is throwing Murdoch a bone with a change to the way Google honors … Continue reading →

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Google Rich Snippets

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Les Jones

This – Google Rich Snippets – makes all kinds of Googley sense. You can markup your Web page content semantically to help Google index it. Google’s initial push is to index content on review and social media Web sites. The … Continue reading →

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Do you talk like you Google?

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Les Jones

I was in a meeting yesterday, talking about a new Web site. The discussion turned to the terminology we were going to use for services. Different people in our industry use slightly different names for the same services. I had … Continue reading →

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Google: we ignore meta keywords tags

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Les Jones

Google makes it official. Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn’t use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company … Continue reading →

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My quick advice on getting the most from Google Adwords

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Les Jones

Doug is asking for Google Adwords advice, so I’ve typed up a bit of what I know. Some basic considerations How many Adwords accounts should you have? My company has multiple Web sites. I have each in its own Adwords … Continue reading →

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Try Googling your own blog

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Les Jones

That’s what I get in a Google search for “les jones“. Google’s picks for pages to highlight is interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed Girl in Bathtub with Cheetos was one of my more popular pages. Guns Volunteer Enterprises Commando … … Continue reading →

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Build your own tinyurl-style URL shortener

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Les Jones

Mashable tells you how. You can also use Google Apps.

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Google Maps is now a real estate search engine

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Les Jones

Just visit Google Maps and select “Real Estate” instead of “All Results.”

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You first

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Les Jones

WordPress 2.8 is out. Announcement and full feature list. There are more features and it’s supposed to be faster. I’ll probably wait a bit to let some of the inevitable new release bugs get worked out. I just upgraded to … Continue reading →

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