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Posted by Carrie Farrell, Veteran Santa TrackerIt was more than half a century ago, on Christmas Eve in 1955, that a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs advertised a special hotline number for kids to call Santa. What the company didn’t …

Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools teamWhen Matt Cutts, who heads up Google’s webspam team, dropped by our Kirkland offices a little while ago we found ourselves with a video camera and an hour to spare. The result? We quickly put together a …

Written by Patrick Chapman, Search Quality TeamOur goal for the Webmaster Help Group is to be an authoritative source for accurate, friendly information and discussion. There are many terrific members of the Webmaster Groups community, and we’re glad t…

Written by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends AnalystWe’re fortunate to meet many of you at conferences, where we can chat about web search and Webmaster Tools. We receive a lot of good feedback at these events: insight into the questions you’re asking and…

Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry’s failure to accommodate file-sharing as an ‘inadvertent’ war on consumers. I’m left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. ‘We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing [...]

Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools TeamWelcome Go Daddy webmasters to the Google Webmaster Tools family! Today, we’re announcing that Go Daddy, the world’s largest hostname provider in the web hosting space, is working with us as a pilot partner so …

Written by Michael Wyszomierski and Greg Grothaus, Search QualityMany webmasters have discovered the advantages of using Ajax to improve the user experience on their sites, creating dynamic pages that act as powerful web applications. But, like Flash, …