I was recently checking out a search for PayPal and noticed something interesting, www.paypal.com was listed twice as the URL of a domain in the first page. The first was the correct address, which directed you to paypal.com, the second sent you off to another domain.  Not only did they make the page displayed as paypal.com, but they also are top ten for a fairly high trafficked keyword.  Imagine if someone did this for banks, trading websites, and even eBay, etc….

This allows the website owner to display a URL that is not owned by them in the URL information location in Google’s results page. I also noticed that Yahoo and MSN do not have this result in their top 10, only Google. Tracking it down, I realized this exploit is really not that difficult, and is something Google really needs to fix immediately. Talk about your ultimate phishing opportunity, my goodness!

Do you have a laptop, a Work PC, and a Home PC?  Google Browser Sync allows your browser to remember everything you’ve done on another computer.

How is this useful?  There are a lot of reasons I use it.  Keeping track of forms I only logged into with my home PC- if I take my laptop on the road, I can log in without having to remember the login details.  Ever gone to a website and forgotten where it was because you found it on vacation? Your PC will automatically log into the browser sync server and retract your previous visits.

Now you can add all of your external e-mail accounts to Gmail. Its pretty simple to set up. Instructions can be found here, taken from Google’s question and answer page.

This feature is currently only enabled for a limited number of users. We’re working on making it more available soon.

1. Click Settings from the top of any Gmail page.
2. Click Accounts.
3. In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account.
4. Enter the full email address of the account you’d like to access, then click Next Step.

You can do this, and a lot more with the CustomizeGoogle plug-in that was recently released. Some of my favorite options are the ability to remove ads, click tracking, and image copying restrictions in Google Book Search, Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images, and securing the Docs and Spreadsheets and Gmail areas in https.

There are a lot of basic things people do to improve their price per click, and the CTR (click through ratio); either learned from an eBook, forum, or Google’s own adsense tips.  The thing about most of these is, its duplicated content from hundreds of different places on the internet- no quality tips.  This is the beginning of a weekly Adsense tips section.  I’ve got enough data to keep this section running for weeks.
Think about how Google’s search engine works, and create pages around that.  In other words, if you know that iPod accessories is a good keyword, but that iPod replica accessories only pays around 10 cents, refrain from using the word on the page- even if it would be to describe them for content purposes.  Some people may think this is a negative, but if you’re writing a page about iPod accessories, and only knock-offs as sub-topic, why should ads display about them anyway?

Well I was playing around with the Google Co-op a few days ago and began to fine-tune a torrent search engine. Rather than having to access each directly to look for a specific product, you use the Google Co-op search to find the search on any number of sites. Currently my co-op has around 20 different torrent sites, with a search engine better than any site can offer, managing it all.