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▼The human process behind Google's algorithm | Relevant Results - CNET News - news.cnet.com
If it weren't for smart automated processes and powerful computers, Google wouldn't exist. That doesn't mean individuals aren't shaping Google search results. Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on Relevant Results.
If it weren't for smart automated processes and powerful computers, Google wouldn't exist. That doesn't mean individuals aren't shaping Google search results. Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on Relevant Results.
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Like▼MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts - Engadget
Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to ...Expand this post »
Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to ...Expand this post »
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Like▼Simple best practice for sitelink titles - Maile Ohye: Love & Technology
Sitelink titles (anchor text) can be influenced by your webmaster charms! The URLs that Google selects for sitelinks, however, are far less manually manipulated. Oprah’s sitelink titles include “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Contact Us,” “Why Oprah Says She’ll Never Diet…” If the titles of your sitelinks aren’t exactly what you hoped for, a troubleshooting tactic is to investigate the anchor t...Expand this post »
Sitelink titles (anchor text) can be influenced by your webmaster charms! The URLs that Google selects for sitelinks, however, are far less manually manipulated. Oprah’s sitelink titles include “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Contact Us,” “Why Oprah Says She’ll Never Diet…” If the titles of your sitelinks aren’t exactly what you hoped for, a troubleshooting tactic is to investigate the anchor t...Expand this post »
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Like▼How-to: Improve Your Site's Bounce Rate (Intro to Google Analytics Advanced Filtering) - NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
If you're in charge of your organization's web analytics, you undoubtedly know about bounce rate -- the measure of visitors who enter your site, say "Enh" (or something ruder), and immediately leave, without viewing any more of your carefully crafted pages. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. But unless you're a consultant working with several nonprofit clients, you're probably working in a vacu...Expand this post »
If you're in charge of your organization's web analytics, you undoubtedly know about bounce rate -- the measure of visitors who enter your site, say "Enh" (or something ruder), and immediately leave, without viewing any more of your carefully crafted pages. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. But unless you're a consultant working with several nonprofit clients, you're probably working in a vacu...Expand this post »
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Like▼Ferramentas SEO
Como webmaster, que ferramentas utilizar para SEO? É mais uma das muitas perguntas que recebo com frequência sempre que vou a conferências ou falo com webmasters no Twitter. Por isso nada melhor que...Expand this post »
Como webmaster, que ferramentas utilizar para SEO? É mais uma das muitas perguntas que recebo com frequência sempre que vou a conferências ou falo com webmasters no Twitter. Por isso nada melhor que...Expand this post »
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Like▼3 Simple Steps to Identify Your Fans in Google Analytics - Search Engine People Blog
Fans are important to a business. They are its biggest advocates, and account for 80% of its success as per the Pareto principle. Here's how you can gain insight into your fans (and potential fans) using Google Analytics. Step 1: On the Dashboard page, click on "All Visits" to display a list of advanced segments that are available to your profile. Deselect the "All Visits" checkbox. Step 2: ...Expand this post »
Fans are important to a business. They are its biggest advocates, and account for 80% of its success as per the Pareto principle. Here's how you can gain insight into your fans (and potential fans) using Google Analytics. Step 1: On the Dashboard page, click on "All Visits" to display a list of advanced segments that are available to your profile. Deselect the "All Visits" checkbox. Step 2: ...Expand this post »
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▼20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation - Nettuts+
A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps — many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many times have you forgotten to customize your permalink structure? How about adding in a sitemap plugin? What about changing your timezone? If you’ve installed WordPress more than once, chances are you’ve missed something. Take the following s...Expand this post »
A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps — many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many times have you forgotten to customize your permalink structure? How about adding in a sitemap plugin? What about changing your timezone? If you’ve installed WordPress more than once, chances are you’ve missed something. Take the following s...Expand this post »
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Like▼Career nostalgia, I used to create lots of these :P
Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites - Smashing Magazine Feed
A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide. Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.” Although there’s no stop...Expand this post »
Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites - Smashing Magazine Feed
A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide. Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.” Although there’s no stop...Expand this post »
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Like▼Porque a estrutura de um site é importante
Em suma: Para que tanto os motores de busca como os seus visitantes entendam melhor o conteúdo do seu site. Esta resposta pode ser interpretada como algo de senso comum para todos, mas a verdade é que...Expand this post »
Em suma: Para que tanto os motores de busca como os seus visitantes entendam melhor o conteúdo do seu site. Esta resposta pode ser interpretada como algo de senso comum para todos, mas a verdade é que...Expand this post »
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Like▼Simpsons characters by voice actor - farm1.static.flickr.com
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Like▼Making Sense of Color Codes - Nettuts+
HTML color codes are a common and crucial piece of modern web design. While most sites nowadays are designed largely in part with images, colors are particularly important when you need to come up with a color hex value on the fly while coding. In this guide, we will learn the fundamentals behind color coding, ultimately providing you the power to come up with colors without the use of a color ...Expand this post »
HTML color codes are a common and crucial piece of modern web design. While most sites nowadays are designed largely in part with images, colors are particularly important when you need to come up with a color hex value on the fly while coding. In this guide, we will learn the fundamentals behind color coding, ultimately providing you the power to come up with colors without the use of a color ...Expand this post »
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Like▼11 Delicious TextMate Themes for Designers and Developers - Mashable!
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. TextMate is one of the most used and well-loved applications for Mac OS X-based designers and developers. Even if it does look like TextMate 2.0 is likely vaporware, the existing app (currently at version 1.5.9) still delivers the goods. One of our favorite features of Tex...Expand this post »
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. TextMate is one of the most used and well-loved applications for Mac OS X-based designers and developers. Even if it does look like TextMate 2.0 is likely vaporware, the existing app (currently at version 1.5.9) still delivers the goods. One of our favorite features of Tex...Expand this post »
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Like▼Dancing Cat - 9GAG.com Site Feed
Submitted by: toxicat Posted at: 2010-07-05 13:56:07 See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/28349Expand this post »
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Like▼Como prevenir a indexação de páginas seguras (https)
Muitos dos sites na Internet—maioritariamente e-commerce e online banking—utilizam a tecnologia SSL para segurança de secções específicas que normalmente lidam com informação pessoal dos visitantes ou...Expand this post »
Muitos dos sites na Internet—maioritariamente e-commerce e online banking—utilizam a tecnologia SSL para segurança de secções específicas que normalmente lidam com informação pessoal dos visitantes ou...Expand this post »
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Like▼The 10 HTML Tags Beginners Aren’t Using - Nettuts+
Let's go back to the basics for this one. Everyone reading this at least knows what HTML is. I believe that, no matter what experience level someone has, reviewing the foundation can help increase knowledge. It also helps to hone skills, especially with the constantly evolving technologies that drives the Internet. There has also been a lot of talk of change with HTML 5. Every tag that I menti...Expand this post »
Let's go back to the basics for this one. Everyone reading this at least knows what HTML is. I believe that, no matter what experience level someone has, reviewing the foundation can help increase knowledge. It also helps to hone skills, especially with the constantly evolving technologies that drives the Internet. There has also been a lot of talk of change with HTML 5. Every tag that I menti...Expand this post »
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Like▼A minha participação no Search Labs 2010
Como muitos dos que me seguem no Twitter já devem saber, fui convidado a participar no Search Labs 2010 que decorrerá em São Paulo no Brasil durante os dias 28 e 29 de Julho. A organização tem...Expand this post »
Como muitos dos que me seguem no Twitter já devem saber, fui convidado a participar no Search Labs 2010 que decorrerá em São Paulo no Brasil durante os dias 28 e 29 de Julho. A organização tem...Expand this post »
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Like▼Mine Says I'm Super-L337: What Your Email Address Says About Your Computer Skeels - Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
Note: Larger version HERE in case your eyes suck (you gotta make like a bunny and eat more carrots, yo!). Suck it Merriam-Webster, I'll spell how I want! This is a little chart showing what different email addresses say about you as a computer user. They're pretty spot-on too. Now I know what you're wondering, "well GW -- where do you stand?" And the answer, my dear friends, is as far away as p...Expand this post »
Note: Larger version HERE in case your eyes suck (you gotta make like a bunny and eat more carrots, yo!). Suck it Merriam-Webster, I'll spell how I want! This is a little chart showing what different email addresses say about you as a computer user. They're pretty spot-on too. Now I know what you're wondering, "well GW -- where do you stand?" And the answer, my dear friends, is as far away as p...Expand this post »
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Like▼My wife: You got my license plate wrong in the insurance policy!
Axa: Oh, we're very sorry, we'll fix that for 65Eur.
My wife: Oh... why do I have to pay for your mistakes?
Axa: Well, in fairness you didn't see it either...
Is this what we have become? If so in the future can I say something like: "Oh i ran over you with my car? Well in fairness you didn't see me either"
Axa: Oh, we're very sorry, we'll fix that for 65Eur.
My wife: Oh... why do I have to pay for your mistakes?
Axa: Well, in fairness you didn't see it either...
Is this what we have become? If so in the future can I say something like: "Oh i ran over you with my car? Well in fairness you didn't see me either"
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Like▼15 Aplicações para Android que recomendo
A plataforma Android fez um progresso impressionante durante os últimos 18 meses. Desde os primeiros modelos lançados a nível Europeu em 2009 que tive a oportunidade de ser um utilzador assíduo da...Expand this post »
A plataforma Android fez um progresso impressionante durante os últimos 18 meses. Desde os primeiros modelos lançados a nível Europeu em 2009 que tive a oportunidade de ser um utilzador assíduo da...Expand this post »
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Like▼BPGlobalPR Billboards - 9GAG.com Site Feed(rss)
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Like▼CSS Three — Connecting The Dots - Smashing Magazine Feed
As a web community, we’ve made a lot of exciting progress in regards to CSS3. We’ve put properties like text-shadow & border-radius to good use while stepping into @font-face (not a CSS3-property) and visual effects like transitions and animations. We’ve also spent a great deal of time debating how and when to implement these properties. Just because a property isn’t widely supported by browser...Expand this post »
As a web community, we’ve made a lot of exciting progress in regards to CSS3. We’ve put properties like text-shadow & border-radius to good use while stepping into @font-face (not a CSS3-property) and visual effects like transitions and animations. We’ve also spent a great deal of time debating how and when to implement these properties. Just because a property isn’t widely supported by browser...Expand this post »
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Like▼The State of LinkedIn - VIRALBLOG.COM» Viral ideas.Trends. Inspiration
Vincenzo Cosenza, has created another great infographic, this time for LinkedIn. LinkedIn, the most popular professional social network launched exactly 7 years ago, has updated its advertising tool to allow individuals/companies to buy “Direct Ads”. This simple tool is also a rich source of information about registered users. Full infographic after break. LinkedIn has almost 69 million mem...Expand this post »
Vincenzo Cosenza, has created another great infographic, this time for LinkedIn. LinkedIn, the most popular professional social network launched exactly 7 years ago, has updated its advertising tool to allow individuals/companies to buy “Direct Ads”. This simple tool is also a rich source of information about registered users. Full infographic after break. LinkedIn has almost 69 million mem...Expand this post »
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