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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. Also, a bunch of Googlers have worked to bring updated satellite imagery to Google Earth. You can also click to see [...] Full story...

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Google stars for bookmarking

Matt Cutts Blog  Mar 14 10

Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go.

Clarifying a couple points

Matt Cutts Blog  Mar 13 10

[Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.

Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp

Matt Cutts Blog  Mar 03 10

In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this: http://www.

Calling for link spam reports

Matt Cutts Blog  Mar 03 10

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you.

Leaving the iPhone

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 22 10

I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans.

My speaking plans for 2010

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 17 10

Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work.

Finding the best cell phone carrier

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 16 10

Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail.

Blog to Book?

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 15 10

I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found: - Lulu will take PDF files for a book.

Chrome support for Greasemonkey

Matt Cutts Blog  Feb 09 10

Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked.

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.



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