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Many online businesses may not be aware that Google is constantly announcing changes to the way it lists websites in its search engine results pages (SERPs).
Google has certainly taken great pains to improve the quality of its results in the …
Google has always maintained that it wants to give its users the very best results by returning higher quality and relevant websites whilst at the same time providing additional detailed information on the search engine results pages (SERPs).
Today we’re going …
Today Google has released something very interesting, a Font API and directory that offers high quality open source web fonts for web developers. At first glance these fonts are extremely easy to integrate with just a few lines of code needed.
The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.
The interesting part of the subject of baking fonts into images and using font replacement scripts is actually how ‘searchable’ they are. Now with Google Font API you should be more comfortable in the fact that if Google have developed this, they ‘must’ be search engine friendly… right?
How to integrate the Google Font API
Getting started using the Google Font API is easy. Just add a couple lines of HTML:
<link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine’
rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’>
body { font-family: ‘Tangerine’, serif; }
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Frog (me) and Piggynap have created another pointless website to help us waste as much of our free time as possible. It’s called Google Suggest of the Day. We post a daily Google Suggest that we have …
According to Hitwise, here are the top websites and search engines ranked by visits ending 23/05/2009. These stats are based on the UK internet users only, not worldwide.
Top 20 Websites
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This is a special snippet post summarising the Big Tech Buyouts article from BusinessWeek, by Douglas MacMillan. All images copyright of BusinessWeek.
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