Not but 3 hours after I found this site on Google… http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792196/posts

Search for “Glitch Around 2PM Caused [delay in reporting of] Dow Jones Drop 200 Points In Short Time Around 3PM” and tell me if you see it in MSN or Yahoo yet. Google has an unparalleled ability to not only organize the worlds information, but also do it at lightning speed. Thats impressive don’t you think?

Finally some action in the SERPS, and something worth blogging about. Yesterday I saw some major changes in certain rankings for competitive key phrases. What is basically happening is larger more authoritative sites are getting downgraded on spots were they would typically be. Smaller, spammish doorway sites now have over taken certain sites. Now this isn’t across the board but here and there you will find this happening. These smaller sites I have found to have spammy keyword rich link profiles.

Is this googles fix for all the .edu and .gov spamming in the SERPS? Perhaps this is there fix on combating large sites manipulating there rankings. What do you think?

Im not one to talk much about email since I like to concentrate on search engine topics, however, this trick deserved some attention.

Gmail, it has become very popular and works well. There is a small trick with adding “+” signs in the front of your gmail account to essentially create many accounts with one email.  For example, lets say your email account is Steve@gmail.com.

You use it for personal and business related emails. Set up a work related account and name it Steve+work@gmail.com Then go into gmail and make a rule to redirect all Work related emails to your Work folder, checking for the above prefix steve+work@gmail.com

Another example would be to keep track of your accounts that you have signed up with. Lets say you want to catch spammers, set up one for each site you sign up with, example:

steve+photopics@gmail.com Once you start receiving spam from the Photopics website you can redirect it all to the trash.

Sometimes its useful to determine which page in googles “eyes” is the most relevant for a given search term for a particular site. Take for example, a random term “swimming monk”. Go to google and use the site operator. Here is an example where I wanted to find the most relevant page on a swimming monk in the NYtimes:

This can be a useful assessment if you are looking for a good location to place a link on. Relevancy is crucial, why not let google tell you which page is the most relevant!

With the recent toying around by Google with the Adsense layout change its not a surprise that they unleash a new feature to their result page. The new feature helps users hone down general subject terms such as Trains, School, Mary Poppins, Duke, etc. The feature is found at the end of the result pages, nice, neat and tucked away in an unobtrusive format. Now the question is, will Google implement this for a wider breadth of terms?

A quick post on ways to contact google:
I have heard several people say they had success with the following email inside-adsense (at) google.com

If that doesnt work you can try…
http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py

or try their forum here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help

Perhaps you need to report spam:

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

Keep in mind it will take some time to contact Google. They are a little bit harder to get in touch with compared to Yahoo or MSN. Be patient and persistent and you just might get through. Good luck!