This is indeed an “I told you so” post. If you don’t recognise the logo above, then this is aimed at you Google have announced (12 May) that they are going to be using “Rich snippets”: “Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search res[...]
Posts Tagged ‘webmaster’
January 15th, 2009 - 3:21 pm § in Search engines
Search Engine Result Evaluation
Search engines are often evaluated using information retrieval techniques such a precision and recall. These methods are very effective metrics in these systems but less so in search engines. The reasons for this is that high precision isn’t necessarily a good measure of user satisfaction.[...]
October 21st, 2008 - 11:47 pm § in Uncategorized
Google webmaster chat event
There will be a webmaster chat event hosted by Google on the 22nd October noon (EST) or 9am (PST). They intend to bust some webmastering myths with some presentations and then there will be a long Q&A session via Live chat. From their post: “Here’s what you’ll need About an ho[...]
October 14th, 2008 - 8:12 pm § in Uncategorized
Free links with 404′s
Matt Cutts wrote a post about the announcement on Google webmaster blog, where Google stats that you can tell who is linking to one of your 404′s. This means that you can ask sites to link to another page of your site instead, thus avoiding the loss of links. Using Google webmaster central y[...]
