Google announced a new feature within her Google Apps package, the development of websites. Users of the Google Apps are free to create, modify or do whatever they like with pages for company intranet, or even for the internet.

Setting up a page in Google Sites should be as easy as creating a document in a text editor. You do not need any knowledge on HTML or PHP to create a page or complete site, with Google Sites. Users are also able to set who is allowed to take a look at the pages; a small group, the company or even the entire world. Read more »

Google’s Pagerank, every webmaster who made more out of it, knows something about it. The links on pages everywhere on the internet, form the chains that connect the pages together. Now the Pagerank is a system developed by Google to qualify the importance of a page on the internet. This is determined with the amount of links towards that specific page.

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The Pagerank of the page that links towards the specific page, is also taken into consideration. And exactly that is what lots of people think the main problem is. As many enthousiastic webmasters try to get links to their own webpages on big (and high Pagerank-) pages, large amounts of money are taken into account.

Google ‘took care’ of this problem by punishing websites that put paid links online, links that are paid for. Many websites were decreased in Pagerank and this caused a lot of buzz on the internet. Read more »

Looking at the recent hype around Joran van der Sloot and his role in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, this seems to be one of the functions that Google is still missing. It does support searching in blogs and news sites, but when I Google for Joran van der Sloot, I find old news.

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Google could make it’s functionality just a little bigger, by implementing this function. It wouldn’t take too much effort for Google to implement, since it stores the time and date on which the page was found. It’s easy to add a single checkbox, wether or not to sort on news value (in combination with relevance, to keep the level of results high). Read more »

According to the statistics of August 2007 posted at Search Engine Land, Google covers 53,6% of the searching on the internet. That’s quite a lot, but what most people tend to forget, is that there is another 46,7% that also holds lots of potential visitors/customers.

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When you have to focus on one search engine, it’s easy to pick one. But as a webdeveloper or SEO, we can use more than one search engine. Focussing to much on Google, leaves unused opertunities at the other search engines.

Imagine a website, receiving 500 unique visitors a day. These 500 visitors are roughly 50% of the searching users on the internet. What if the other 50% could find your blog too, with the same ease as they could find them in Google? It would double the unique visitors via search engines! Read more »