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Blog Posts By Ian MacfarlaneCan PDF, Flash and MS Office documents have PageRank?Posted on 4th November 2009 at 4:05 pm by Ian Macfarlane
The question today is - does Google assign PageRank to non-HTML files such as PDF files, Word documents or Flash files? Here is the definite answer. Google supports Facebook Share & SearchMonkey video formatsPosted on 15th September 2009 at 3:00 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Google has announced that it now supports the Facebook Share and SearchMonkey RDFa formats for video, allowing site owners to tell Google about videos using simple HTML markup. Microsoft to include browser ballot screen in EuropePosted on 3rd August 2009 at 4:10 pm by Ian Macfarlane
In a reversal of its previous decision to remove Internet Explorer from Windows in Europe, Microsoft has announced that it is set to introduce a "ballot screen" system instead. Are we losing two of the top four search engines?Posted on 30th July 2009 at 9:06 am by Ian Macfarlane
Bing and Yahoo! have agreed a deal which will essentially kill off the Yahoo! search engine and merge its technology with Bing's. At the same time, we have discovered that Ask Jeeves has been serving Google-crawled pages. Are we going to lose half of the top four search engines? Is Ask Jeeves scraping Google?Posted on 29th July 2009 at 12:08 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Ask Jeeves has pages in its index which could only have been spidered by Googlebot. What is going on? Android overtakes Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone sharePosted on 23rd July 2009 at 4:00 pm by Ian Macfarlane
The Android operating system has overtaken Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone market share in less than a year. How has Google Suggest affected search queries?Posted on 22nd July 2009 at 3:05 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Google Suggest and search refinements were introduced at the end of March this year. How have they impacted the shape of search? Bing says relative URLs pass less link juicePosted on 3rd July 2009 at 4:00 pm by Ian Macfarlane
In a recent blog post by Bing's Webmaster Center team they write that you should use absolute URLs for internal links rather than relative URLs to get the full 'link juice'. Sorry, what? Microsoft's IE8 "Get the Facts" campaign backfiresPosted on 29th June 2009 at 1:45 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Microsoft has launched a new "Get the Facts" campaign, this time promoting Microsoft Internet Explorer. The marketing teams may have been a little *too* enthusiastic - the campaign has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Google Toolbar PageRank update 23rd JunePosted on 25th June 2009 at 10:30 am by Ian Macfarlane
Google seems to be switching from 3-4 month gaps between Toolbar PageRank updates to a much shorter interval - we've just had another update, less than a month after the last one.
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