Webmaster Level: AllDuring my stint on the “How Google Works Tour: Seattle”, I heard plenty of questions regarding News Search from esteemed members of the press, such as The Stranger, The Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly. After careful note-taking thr…
Webmaster Level: AllTo build a great web search engine, you need to:Crawl a large chunk of the web.Index the resulting pages and compute how reputable those pages are.Rank and return the most relevant pages for users’ queries as quickly as possible.For…
Have you been holding off on using Google Friend Connect because your site isn’t in English? Starting today, Friend Connect is available in 47 new languages, including French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Portuguese. Now you c…
Webmaster Level: AllWith the new directions gadget from Google Maps, any business can offer customized Google Maps directions to their business locations. With the directions gadget, you no longer need to type and update multiple sets of text direction…
Webmaster Level: AllWe just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content to…
Webmaster Level: Beginner to IntermediateIf you run an e-commerce site and you’d like your products to be eligible to be shown in Google search results, then check out our “Product Search for Webmasters” video. In addition to the basics on Product Sear…
Webmaster Level: BeginnerSince the release of our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide last November, we’ve steadily been adding localized versions for our international users. Today, we’re happy to announce that the guide is now available in 40 la…
Webmaster Level: All We recently posted about some of the engaging gadgets you can add to your site with Google Friend Connect. Here’s one more that may be of interest if you’re looking for another way to get feedback from your site’s visitors:The new…
Webmaster Level: AllAs a webmaster, you have a unique understanding of your web pages and the content they represent. Google helps users find your page by showing them a small sample of that content — the “snippet.” We use a variety of techniques to…
Webmaster Level: AllIn a recent post on the Official Google Blog, we mentioned our Google Trends gadget, and we thought it made sense to also post something here for all the webmasters that might be interested in having Trends on their website. Google …
Webmaster Level: AllOver the last few weeks, Google Friend Connect has added several new ways for you to strengthen the community that visits your site. These gadgets help to make your site more engaging and gives your visitors a new way to interact wi…
Webmaster Level: AllMany thanks to the more than 1,600 people who filled out our survey in February. You gave us your feedback on the Webmaster Central Blog, Google Webmaster Tools, the Webmaster Help Forum, and our Webmaster Central videos on YouTube….
We’ve been tracking the growth of Sitemaps on the web. It’s been just 2 years since Google, Yahoo and Microsoft co-announced the Sitemaps directive in robots.txt, and it is already supported in many millions of websites including educational and govern…
Webmaster Level: AllYou may be familiar with sitelinks, the links that show up underneath the first search result and which lead to specific pages deeper within the site. Sitelinks enable users to jump directly to important parts of a site, which is of…
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to AdvancedSince launching Google Chrome last September, we received a number of questions from webmasters and web developers about how to make their sites look great in Google Chrome. The questions were very insightful an…