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Ubuntu 9.04 boots in 17.5 seconds!

Matt Cutts Blog  Apr 13 09

Recently I treated myself to a solid-state drive (SSD). That’s essentially a hard-drive made out of memory chips. I bought the Intel X25-E Extreme, which uses faster single-level cell (SLC) memory chips instead of slower multi-level cell (MLC) memory chips. I wanted to put the drive through its paces, so I decided to see how fast [...] Full story...

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Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 02 10

Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters.

Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 30 10

I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.

Keep an eye on changing pages

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 25 10

Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes.

PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 22 10

If you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this, but I recently recreated my “State of the Index” talk from PubCon in November 2009.

Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 21 10

Huh. This looks new. I headed over to investor.google.com to listen to the Google earnings call. Normally the webcast uses Windows Media Player or Real Player, but this time it looks like the earnings call is being hosted on a YouTube channel: http://www.

More info about synonyms at Google

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 19 10

Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog.

Follow @googlewmc on Twitter

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 18 10

Okay, we’re starting to release new webmaster videos. Normally you could follow me on Twitter to find out about each new video, but I’m on a Twitter diet until the end of January.

Ways to help Haiti

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 14 10

Lots of people are thinking about ways to help Haiti after their horrible 7.0 earthquake. Google recently introduced a page with a large number of resources for the Haiti earthquake, including the ability to donate money.

Important blog post on Google blog

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 12 10

This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source.

Giving up Twitter for three more weeks

Matt Cutts Blog  Jan 08 10

Quick summary: I’m giving up Twitter for 30 days. I normally tweet about the webmaster videos that we make.



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