Google Mobile App on iPhone Adds Voice Recognition
Google announced yesterday that they’ve added voice recognition for the Google Mobile App on the iPhone. It’s certainly another logical step in Google’s strategy for bringing analog and digital information together. Google is helping to pave the two way street where we speak to computers and they speak back to us. I look forward to seeing more Google products that provide voice recognition, text-to-speech, and image recognition.
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Fast and Simple SEO to Increase from PageRank 0
I was very surprised when I learned that I had quickly increased to a PageRank of 3 within less than 30 days of having created this blog. A few weeks later, I reflected upon some of the things that may have contributed to improving my PageRank. More recently, I came across some additional information that may actually provide the real reason I rose so quickly.
So what is the secret to going from a PageRank 0 to 3 in less than 30 days? It’s actually quite simple. Have your site added to a blogroll on a site with PageRank. The incoming links from the blogroll must not be nofollow links, otherwise they will not contribute to your PageRank.
Notice I said simple, not easy. If you already have a blog with PageRank or a very good friend that has a PageRanked blog, then it is simple and easy. If not, go out and make some friends. 
I added GeekLad to my blogroll on WealthBoy, and I believe it is the number one factor in what increased my PageRank so quickly.
Last month, I developed a Greasemonkey script for providing nofollow information in Google Webmaster Tools. I took a look at the incoming links for http://geeklad.com and what I found was very interesting. There were only a handful of incoming links (that were not nofollow) to my site that had a PageRank, and the majority of them coming from WealthBoy. There were only three other inbound links that were not nofollow, had PageRank, and did not come from WealthBoy:
- http://www.seo-scientist.com/
- http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/GeekLad/
- http://e-businessadvantage.com/blogging-tools/the-unlimited-search-engine-for-dofollow-blogs/
In all, I have 15 inbound links that are not nofollow with PR 1-3. I have 154 inbound links that are PR 0 that are not nofollow. Of the 154 inbound links, only 29 of them are coming from sites other than WealthBoy. I think this is all very compelling evidence that all it takes to increase your PageRank quickly is to be placed on the blogroll of a site with PageRank.
When I came to the realization as to why my PageRank increased so quickly, it did take some of the wind out of my sails. It wasn’t due to all the time and effort I spent in developing lots of useful and relevant information. It was because I took 10 seconds to add myself to my blogroll on another blog.
However, it was an important discovery to make and share. I was compelled to find the answer, and in the process I’ve learned a lot about search engine optimization. I also developed a useful tool for nofollow link analysis.
I’m also working on a server-side tool. It will allow people that do not use FireFox and Greasemonkey to perform external link analysis as well. The server-side tool I’m working on helped me perform the analysis I shared here, but it is not yet ready for production. You can be certain that I will share it with the masses as soon as it is ready.
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Jerry Yang no Longer Yahoo! CEO
I’m certain that Jerry Yang had long ago realized that he really fucked up the acquisition by Microsoft. Just a couple of weeks ago at the Web 2.0 summit, Yang said that it would still be in Microsoft’s best interest to acquire Yahoo! That sounds like an admission of failure if I’ve ever heard one.
This was a long time coming. Yahoo! shareholders and employees have suffered long enough, and it is time they get the share value they deserve. Speaking of which, YHOO is trading at around $12, up over $1.20 a share (about 11%) in pre-market trading this morning. Of course, this is a far cry from the $31 a share that Microsoft was offering for Yahoo! just nine months ago. I doubt if Yahoo! will ever make it that high again before someone swoops them up at a lower price.
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Google Webmaster Tools External Links Detail Error
This morning I was trying to do some analysis with my Greasemonkey script for displaying nofollow information in Google Webmaster tools. Unfortunately, it seems that the external links detail pages are dead. I’m getting an error that says Our system is currently busy. Please try again in a few minutes. It has been much longer than just a few minutes that I’ve been seeing this error. Hopefully they resolve the issue soon.
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Gmail Adds Video Chat
Earlier this week, the Gmail Blog announced the addition of video to Gmail chat. Just download the voice and video plugin, and you’re good to go. The next time you launch chat from within Gmail, you’ll have the option for voice and video. Check out the video to see it in action:
