Last week Google (Inc) publicly announced its new privacy policy. The updated policy will be the same, consistently, for all of Google products (not like before, each one each policy) and affected from March 01, 2012. According to this new policy, the giant plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. This is the first time, Google is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.

In November 3, 2011, Google executive Bradley Horowitz, in a post named “Google+ is not a social network, but it’s not a graveyard, either” said that Google Plus would be a NEW way of getting you to use all its web products rather than a standalone social network of its own.

And a long time ago (I don’t remember ) Google Search (product) uses personal information (browser history, gmail login, most clicked sites…) in its retrieving process.

The question is, how Google personalization will affect SEO industry? What are your ideas?
(I’ll share my thoughts on this, sooner or later. Now it’s time to prepare for a new working day! )

Play video on Yahoo! Search Result Pages

Video on Google SERPs - No Play button

In Feb 2007, Google used to let Youtube video clips show up on its SERPs.

Bonus: turn on your headphone and enjoy some amazing moments about Batigol. :->

And his best goals!!!

The keywords checked in Google Vietnam are “Thiết kế cảnh quan” and “thiết kế cảnh quan” (landscape design).

In the first case, his site ranks 1. But the other not in top 3.

I double check in Google Vietnam, finding the same results though.

To clarify his doubts, I make a quick research and finally get the clues (posted under nick Tapher).

Google Web Search Help Guide clearly states:

Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the same results.

Not satisfied enough, I continue to Gogole and find a useful article of Barry Schwartz (editor of Search Engine Land) that I certainly missed it.

Barry Schwartz (also known as Rusty Brick, founder of SERoundTable) used to report that he saw different results with Upper case and lower case of the same keywords.

Barry then received feedbacks from Googler JohnMu as followed:

At the moment, as far as I know, we do not look at case sensitivity in web search. However, at some time in the future, we may decide to take it into account should we find that it is relevant and improves the quality of our results.

If you see differences at the moment, it is likely due to normal fluctuations and perhaps differences across datacenters. If you find drastic differences, it would be great if you could post them here or better, in the Webmaster Help groups so that we can investigate them appropriately.

The bold text above is the final clue I can have: different datacenters make the differences.

We’re too pleased to see this expand logo (meaning more chances to see our expected results or Google SERPs)

But you may find this distorted logo unusual.

It’s interesting that I can make this happen!

But today I type “Euro 2008 Russia” then wow, I see the previous game result/time as well as the next match calendar of Russia.

So again I try with “Euro 2008″ and get the same result like Google Vietnam case.

Thanks Google! You help us save time! You’re really a good partner of crazy football fans like me!