updated

I know a segment of my readers are sick to death with anything to do with Google PageRank updates, and I haven't even bothered mentioning the most recent update up until now… there wasn't really anything newsworthy in it.

Traditionally, the magic word count for SEO has been around 300 words. As Google gets more particular about what it picks up due to higher concentrations of MFA (made-for-AdSense) pages, that new optimal count may be 500-600 words with a long tail.

I have to say it makes me pleasantly happy to see that the ever entrenched "datadepot" has finally been replaced on Google's search crawl when you search for a common term like "free Alaska DRG"...

Jabber, Inc. has launched an updated version of its Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) in the form of a 5.1 release. Features have been added and compatibility has been improved from the last generation of the software.

There are geeks and there are nerds, so the Eighties told us (dorks and dweebs, too, but these have yet reach to any type of social prominence). You may have guessed by now that I'm a nerd - I like to study. Google Scholar's new addition, then, will just increase the hours I spend in ancient civilizations -- for another, their time in quarks.

More pictures means more reasons to enjoy Google Local, while Google News loses a notable part of its name after nearly four years.

As part of the Big Apple's marketing ventures, the city will support a new website dedicated to selling its official merchandise; you gotta problem with that?

Most of the big search engines have an official blog. Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves (they've still got the butler) all have their blogs where post new and interesting information about the world from their search engine eyes. All post fairly regularly except one, MSN.