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At SMX East on Wednesday, Google set forth a proposal for crawling and indexing content that is dynamically created using AJAX. According to their research, as much as 70% of content on the web today is dynamically-generated (mostly through JavaScript), and this trend is only going to continue. So in an attempt to keep up [...]

It’s a well-known fact that Google tracks click-throughs from its search engine result pages (SERPs) to the webpages listed there, and it seems that they have recently changed the way they track these clicks. Until recently, listings in the SERPs would use the simple URL redirects of “google.com/url?q=referral” to determine where traffic is coming from, [...]

Google’s Webmaster Tools is in the process of changing its look. The old main “Dashboard” page now hides behind “Home,” and unread messages from the Message Center are now prominently displayed at the top.
The new “Home” page (click to enlarge):

I’m happy to report that the side navigation is much faster now (optimized AJAX?), so browsing [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently undergoing a review of the settlement between Google and the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. These two entities had filed a class action suit against the search monolith back in 2005, but have only recently settled. Unfortunately for Google, the terms of settlement are now [...]

Blogroll Algorithm Update
The blogroll algorithm that is in charge of detecting and indexing blogroll information for Google Blog Search has at last arrived about a week ago. This update primarily deals with how links to blogs are counted if they come from a blogroll.
Googler Jeremy Hylton explains,
We have launched a ranking change that reduces [...]