How Often Does the Google Algorithm Change?

Posted on October 15th 2010

Via CNET: Earlier this year, Matt Cutts stated that Google “tends to make a change to our core search algorithms at least once a day.” In a recent interview with CNET, he reiterated that that pace continues: just last week Google search engineers met to consider 27 separate changes to the more than 200 factors that Google uses to rank search results.”

Behind every algorithm, and therefore behind every search result, is a team of people responsible for making sure Google search makes the right decisions when responding to your query.

No Google employee sits there and responds to individual requests for “wedding venues in Lake Tahoe.” They do decide, however, how Google’s algorithms consider content to be relevant to such a query, and which sites are eligible to be presented in those results.

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Do CMS Platforms Constrict the Creative Web Design Process?

Posted on October 14th 2010

Is WordPress killing web design? In this highlight video from SXSW Interactive, leading creatives from the world of web design debate whether CMS tools such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others have created a new set of design conventions that designers feel obliged to follow.

6 Incredibly Useful Tools for Discovering Great Domain Names

Posted on October 14th 2010

You may think all the great ones are taken.  Not so.

For help finding an original, descriptive, and memorable domain name for your web site, here are some great tools that will make your search more efficient.

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