Tag Archives: Google
More on Writing for Machines
I’ve written many times on SEO (internal link) and how as a writer I feel compromised and sad that today’s most important reader is a machine. Humans don’t collect their thoughts and organize their tasks the way search engines do. … Continue reading
Bots Censoring Even Storied, Factual Magazines
Few history magazines are more well respected than American Heritage. Its scholarship, impartiality, and stable of great writers have proven its worth over more than a half century in print and online. Today, mindless bots and algorithms are now attacking … Continue reading
A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Time Zone Watch by David Khalil
I’d like to see if putting the transcript of this video at another site (mine), and sharing the video on my site will increase its views. This is not a commercial for David Khalil, I do not know the man … Continue reading
Musings on Readability and Consistency
Shorter sentences tend to be more readable than long ones. Since I usually write long sentences in my first drafts (a part of brainstorming, writing whatever comes to mind), my revisions find me breaking those long sentences into shorter ones. … Continue reading
Google Makes You Think You Are More Popular Than You Are
Google’s search engine may place your posts and pages higher in returns on your machine than anyone else’s. If I search for “creative nonfiction,” for example, I find two of my posts listed on their first page of returns. If … Continue reading
Posted in Google Tips, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, Writing tips
Tagged Bing, Google, google rankings, post popularity, search returns, Yahoo
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Tracking Queries With Google’s Calendar
I’m now using Google’s Calendar feature (external link) to keep track of queries. I wish I used it before. It’s a free service with a Google account. You already have it if you use Gmail. The calendar is pretty straight … Continue reading
The Dark Art of Newsmastering
My main paid work involves writing blog posts by rewriting original content, usually accident reports from different online newspapers. It’s the same thing a newspaper does when they take copy from the Associated Press or other press syndicates and turn it into … Continue reading
No Universal Browser
Safari is my main browser because it comes bundled with my Mac’s operating system. I also use Firefox for older, legacy websites. But I always thought Google Chrome was the default browser for the net until I read this at a … Continue reading
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Tagged .pdf, adobe reader, chrome browser, firefox, Google, google default viewer, safari browser
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Google Search Trick
I discovered yesterday that Google was returning results from all years by default. I changed that so Google will return results no more than a year old. Use this trick with caution if you are doing deep research. 1. Search … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, Google search, google search tips, latest search results, research, writing
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Getting Your Photo In Google’s Search Results — Some Hints
Google is adding author photos more routinely to search results if I am correct. See the first screen shot below. Google is quick. That Delaplane blog entry was posted on September 17th and the search result was live on the … Continue reading