Category Archives: Google News

Is Google Favouring Brands in SERPS?

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 7, 2009. Filed under Google News, SEO, SEO Research, SERP Analysis. No comments.

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… “Inside of Google, we don’t really think about brands, we think about words such as trust, [...]

Google Search Wiki

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 24, 2008. Filed under Google News, Search News. No comments.

On Thursday, Google officially launched its much anticipated “Search Wiki” application found within its personalised Google search accounts.  This move was hardly a surprise especially as Google’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 [...]

Google Alerts Now in RSS

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 9, 2008. Filed under Feeds, Google News, Online Reputation Management. No comments.

Do you subscribe to Google alerts?  If you do then you’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 [...]