Ben Gomes written a factors that Google considers to improve search user experience title “Search quality” on Official Google blog. Some part of this posted those are some of the factors SEOs take into consideration when consulting on site design.

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Interesting news for SEO from InfoWorld

Adobe Systems has developed technology called “Ichabod,” to better enable search engines to index AJAX-based content, an Adobe official said on Tuesday morning.

The Ichabod technology already has been released to Google, which is running it in indexing engines, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, at the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif. Adobe is working with Yahoo on the effort as well, Lynch said.

He stressed challenges in indexing content and that more needs to be done to reveal content to search engines.

“As people are starting to build AJAX apps, the content is getting more opaque,” Lynch said. “It’s getting harder to find with the search engine. You need to be able to still get to that information as a user.”

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FriendFeed new design launched with new feature!

FriendFeed updates Interface Design, it’s finally ready for primetime and added Duplicate Detection.

FriendFeed have updated their web interface designs. FriendFeed’s new design incorporates a much needed feature. The new design offers friend lists to help you organize your subscriptions into groups. Now you can get updates from specific groups of people separately, or you can add an acquaintance to a list and remove them from your home feed.

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Twitter.com have redesigns of site interfaces. New looks, no feature added

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Twitter with New design customizer interfaces

Moving the tabs
Twitter moved the tabs on the top of the timeline to the right sidebar. It makes them larger targets and easier to access.
Ajax for speed
When click on the Home or @Replies tab when you’re already on that page, it refreshed updates page via Ajax should be faster.
Action icons
star and reply show up.
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SpiderOak A revolution in online backup, storage, access, and sharing.

SpiderOak A multi-platform secure online backup, storage, access, and sharing solution engineered for the consumer and small businesses.

Running natively on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, SpiderOak allows users to create a central storage repository where they can access data from all their SpiderOak devices within the application, or via web login at SpiderOak.com.

Using an automated approach, SpiderOak immediately backs up and stores any additions, edits, or changes to the back up set. Historical versions of any document can be identified and downloaded by timestamp.

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RAGE SEKeyword Discover Your Website

Placing at the top of search engines provides no value unless the keywords you rank high for are being searched by your customers. RAGE SEKeyword helps you brainstorm and discover the top searched keywords that are related to your website.

Using technology provided by Yahoo Search, RAGE SEKeyword will download and examine your website content suggesting your most relevant keywords and keyword phrases. Then it provides an entire list of related and specific keyword phrases that you can use to discover profitable niches.

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The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network.

BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin adds a distinct feature (or component) to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.

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Some may wonder what benefits Cocoalicious offers over simply using del.icio.us through the web. Here are a few:

* More sophisticated, live search (including option to search tags and URL substrings, as well as description and extended text).

* Tag renaming through direct manipulation (simply double click on tag text to rename instances of it across all posts).

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Search Engine Marketing Glossary - SEO Glossary: A

ABMs
Automated Bid Managers

ACSS
Aural Cascading Style Sheets

ACH
Automated Clearing House Network

AERT
Techniques for Accessibility and Evaluation and Repair Tools

AJ
Ask Jeeves (a search engine)

AOL
America Online (a search engine)

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Search Engine Optimizers

Free open source tools, under the GNU-GPL 2.0 licence

SEO Tools provides tools for search engine optimization. Spider SEO: generates meta tags for all pages of a website. Web Page Optimizer performs analysis and changes in a web page. A graphical user interface is linked with a scriptol program that gene

Overview of SEO tools
In the goal of search engine optimization, some tools are provided to help webmaster improve the visibility of their pages on the web and to increase their PageRank.
The Scriptol programming language is used to write the scripts.

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ShareMiner is amazing Google Custom Search based engine which trawls the file upload services and design is awesome.

Picking the perfect songs for that über-sexy Valentines Day mix is hard enough. But scouring all the Megauploads in the universe to find that obscure Bright Eyes cover is just plain tedious. ShareMiner lets you scan two, three, four, or almost all of them at once.

Wired Magazine

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