Search Engine News from Piedmont Design

At http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-verify-googlebot.html, Google has posted how to verify that a spider named Googlebot is really from Google.  Telling people to check DNS seems like telling us the obvious.  The helpful tip was to also check the fully qualified domain name as spider owners could spoof that.  I’m not tight enough on bandwidth to care if I’m being over spidered, even by rouge spiders spoofing their namres so this isn’t all that valuable to me.  I do like for Google to index as frequently as possible, though.  Welcome Google.  Come on in… take off your shoes and relax.

http://www.seocompany.ca/pagerank/page-rank-update-list.html

Nice exhaustive list of Google updates, categorized by algorythm updates, page rank updates, and the like.  It has links to forum discussions or other expert analysis of each event.

Per an article at WebProWorld:

The Japanese testing of AdWords on mobiles proved successful enough that Google has quietly debuted the service in the US.

This is a bit too bleeding edge for my taste. I pay for mobile content by the kilobite and would resent searching and getting ads instead. It’s hard to be unobtrusive on a small phone screen. Any space used by ads better be done well or else I’m switching. I tend to use Google, but that would drive me away fast.