Google’s dirty little secret talks about how Google determines whether your site appears on top for a search depending on whether you and the searcher are in the same geography or not. So if your server is in Kazakhstan, expect fewer hits.
Good guidelines on improving pagerank. via LazyGeek
The Blind Search Engine Test. My vote turned out to be for Google.
Google Sitemaps. …is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly. Anil Dash links to alternate proposals. via Anders Jacobs
On the impact of ‘rel=nofollow’ tag. Or, perhaps, some prominent webloggers will use “nofollow” as a money-making technique: for a fee, they’ll take the “nofollow” off your link and let you have their PageRank.
Google doesn’t think it’s the top [search engine](http://www.google.com/search?q=search engine) any more. via Anders Jacobsen
About PageRank
Reactions to Google’s revised search algorithm. People’s rankings on certain keywords appear to have changed. Mine hasn’t. So far.
Joshua, in an insightful article, talks of the tradeoff between reciprocal links and quality.
I know – I’ve been talking too much about Google. Still, here’re the dates on which Google updates itself.
Yet another “googlebomb” on the name David Gallagher.
Never thought the day would come when the Google query S Anand would throw up my name first. Probably won’t last…
A non-Google-bomb way of improving your page rank.
The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it. Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!