Sean Toohey

A 4 min video from Google that explains some of the process behind Search and updates to their algorithm. Read the full post here: Official Google Blog: Another look under the hood of search

Very Cool Google Doodle today paying tribute to John Lennon for his 70th Birthday. The Video played when clicking the logo is on YouTube:

There has been a lot of hype in the media this week, stating that use of Internet Exporer use has fallen bellow 50% of market share.  From CNN Money: StatCounter, which tracks Internet data, said that IE's share of the browser market fell to 49.9% in September. More people still use IE than any other single browser, but the combined market share of non-Microsoft browsers now outpaces IE. Not being one to take their word for it (Sorry CNN), I went and checked some of the websites I run, and their roll-up reports in Google Analytics. Based on over 5.1 Million Visits in the past 30 days, these sites (based in Canada) still show IE with more than 57% share, and Firefox in the number two spot at 21%. I'm not stating that IE is not on the decline, but despite the hype, the reality here in Canada still has Microsoft and Internet Explorer leading the pack. ~ BTW, this post is written on a Mac using Chrome ;)

I had this interesting error message on youTube Today at login: while(1);{"errors": "I call shenanigans", "success": false} 

As many developers already knew, Google explains how it does not use Keyword Meta tags in its Search Engine Ranking. Read the Full story on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

Looking to get started with Google Websiteoptimizer (GWO), here's a video form the team at Google.

I Recently converted our usedeverywhere.com websites over to the Google Ad Manager (GAM) platform, but I hit a wall... Google recommends you use no more than 1000 Ad slots. But my pilot site was running well with over 2500 ad slots and I was planning to roll out to 10+ sites, with a total of more than 25,000 possible ad slots... I met with Google and they recommended doing this with custom targeting, using category & sub-cats. Unfortunately the targeting they proposed would not work for us, and I'd already set up the first batch of Ad slots so i posed the question: "Can your application handle 30,000 ad slots and 2500 placements?" The answer was yes, but it may slow down forecasting... so no big deal.... Well, as it turns out the real answer is NO, GAM can't handle that many Ad slots. Sure the underlying system can handle it (Doubleclick perhaps??), but the Inventory Tab becomes completely unusable and the I can no longer create new Ad Placements! So, I ...