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This article was written on January 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

Googlebomb: A prank where people attempt to cause someone else’s site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Also known as linkbomb.

Google has known about these “Googlebombs” for quite some time now, yet they felt that because the phrases were “well off the beaten path,” they haven’t been high priority to fix.  For example, previously by typing in failure, the first result was for the White House page on President Bush. It’s a way for a website to get ranked #1 on Google for any term.

On the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog they mention that it has become more of a priority for them simply because some people felt that Google had hand-coded those results, or that it was their opinion. One solution would be to go in and manually change the results for those Googlebombs; afterall, they say that there are under a hundred that are well-known.  But, we’re talking about Google here who use Algorithms for just about everything.  A few people at Google got together and created an Algorithm that will detect Googlebombs in different languages so that hopefully, most of them can be detected.

They’re not claiming that it’s the perfect solution and that it can handle any prank, but it catches most of them so that searches for terms like “failure” should be more relevant.

Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog [ via Tech Reads]

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This article was written on September 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

It’s been over three years since Google opened their doors to their web-based email service called Gmail, which at the time shattered all existing storage limitations. To make Gmail a worldwide service Google has people translate phrases into their native language. Instead of spending money on professional translators they just enlist the help of common users who are fluent in multiple languages. One of those translators shot some information over to Googling Google yesterday implying that a new version of Gmail is just around the corner.

Here’s a screenshot of some of the relevant phrases that may hint at some of the upcoming features:

1. This phrase obviously means a new version is coming up, and the “translation help” implies that it is currently in the hands of trusted testers.
2. This would be used for the Google Gears service.
3. This would also be used for the Google Gears service…offline Gmail access (without additional software like Thunderbird) has got to be coming!
4. It appears as though this is some sort of account activity logging. It shows real-time activity (currently logged in users and their IP) as well as past activity that has occurred.

So keep your eyes peeled…good stuff has got to be coming our way! I just hope it is sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the tip “Sure”

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