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	<title>Omar Kattan &#187; Google News</title>
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		<title>Google Adds &#8220;Answer Highlighting&#8221; to Search Results</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2010/01/24/google-adds-answer-highlighting-to-search-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google have kicked off the new year with a major improvement, they&#8217;re applying the research behind Google Squared to add a new &#8220;answer-highlighting&#8221; feature to search results. According to Google, &#8220;most information on the web is unstructured. For example, blogs integrate paragraphs of text, videos and images in ways that don&#8217;t follow simple rules. Product review sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake &#8211; How Google is Helping</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2010/01/17/haiti-earthquake-how-google-is-helping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the Haitian earthquake, a team of Googlers worked with the U.S. Department of State to create an online People Finder gadget so that people can submit information about missing persons and to search the database. The Gadget can be found on their Haiti earthquake response website as well as  the State Department website. Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personalised Search and It&#8217;s Impact on SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/12/15/personalised-search-and-its-impact-on-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Google recently announced that it has defaulted it&#8217;s search results to &#8220;personalised&#8221;.  What does this mean in terms of the future of SEO?  I&#8217;ll try to explain. Before I do, let me explain how Google&#8217;s new personalised results work.  Google personalised results have always been available however previously, these results could only be viewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Caffeine &#8211; The SEO Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/10/03/google-caffeine-the-seo-implications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently announced it&#8217;s top secret project codenamed &#8220;Caffeine&#8221;.  This project seems to have been a few years in the making and meant to capitalise on the growing interest in &#8220;real time search&#8221; and the &#8220;semantic web&#8221;. I have yet to see any major changes in Google&#8217;s search results due to Caffeine but maybe this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Announces Longer Description Snippets</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/25/google-announces-longer-description-snippets-in-serps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/25/google-announces-longer-description-snippets-in-serps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a move hardly surprising to SEOs Google has officially announced two new &#8220;improvements&#8221; in its search results;  &#8220;longer search result  descriptions&#8221; (snippets)  and &#8220;an expanded list of useful related searches&#8221;. Longer Description Snippet   If you conduct a search for wolverine movie review you&#8217;ll notice that the description snippet under the blue title tag contains two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Favouring Brands in SERPS?</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/07/is-google-favouring-brands-in-serps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/03/07/is-google-favouring-brands-in-serps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This debate was first kicked off by Aaron Wall and has been floating around in webamaster forums for a while now.  The debate still lingers on with no absolute answer.  In response to this question, Matt Cutts, Google spokesman says&#8230; &#8220;Inside of Google, we don&#8217;t really think about brands, we think about words such as trust, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Search Wiki</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/24/google-search-wiki/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/24/google-search-wiki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Google officially launched its much anticipated &#8220;Search Wiki&#8221; application found within its personalised Google search accounts.  This move was hardly a surprise especially as Google&#8217;s been dabbling with the idea of search Wiki as an experiment for some time now. The idea behind search Wiki is simple.  Google now allows users to custom design their search results from within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Alerts Now in RSS</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/09/google-alerts-now-in-rss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/09/google-alerts-now-in-rss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you subscribe to Google alerts?  If you do then you&#8217;ll be happy to know that Google has now begun offering the option to recive them via RSS!.  Yes thats right RSS! Benefits of reciveing Google alerts via rss as opposed to to email include the ability to include them in your favourite reader, or [...]]]></description>
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