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"Business Listing Quality Guidelines"

Business Listing Quality Guidelines are now available from the Google Maps Help Center. The guidelines are largely common sense, and should not significantly affect normal listing management. As a matter of fact, they probably won’t affect malicious list-ers, either. They may, however, allow Google to be more proactive with their enforcement.read more | digg story

"Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube"

TechCruch note’s another new Google acquisition. This one could provide video editing capabilities to YouTube. Read The Full Post

"Google Now Notifies Of "Search Customization""

Danny Sullivan posts about a new feature in Google Search that i somehow missed: “Google is now showing “search customization” messages to inform searchers when their search results have been modified from “normal” due to a searcher’s geographic location, previous query or web surfing and search history. It’s a nice move to help searchers know [...]

Notes from June's Google Webmaster Chat

Since this is the first I’ve attended, I was not sure how applicable the information covered in the second of Google’s Webmaster Chats would be for me and my situation. Despite this, I had just passed my Professionals Exam (please note the pretty logo in the Sidebar!), and had overall had a pretty crappy day, [...]