Jaan Paljasma | Tech Blog

As announced today, Google PageSpeed Service PSS (which has been in beta since July 2011) will be shut down forever on August 3, 2015. For every site currently using PageSpeed Service, you must change your DNS before 3rd August 2015 or your site(s) will become completely unavailable on that date. If you wish to continue enjoying many of the performance benefits of PageSpeed Service, the same Google PageSpeed technology is available in a number of alternative packagings which you may wish to consider using, including Apache mod_pagespeed, and nginx ngx_pagespeed. Other cloud-based solutions are available, too. Read more on Google PSS .

From  Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools : Webmaster level: All We strive to keep spam out of our users’ search results. This includes both improving our webspam algorithms as well as taking manual action for violations of Google's quality guidelines. In case you have noticed, there is new link under Search Traffic  called Manual Actions . If you click on it, and find message stating "No manual webspam actions found." then congrats, you have done everything right. A recent analysis of Google index showed that well under 2% of domains are manually removed for webspam. If you are one of the few unlucky who do have manual spam action, you probably have message in your inbox (and Google keeps sending these until you take appropriate actions). Here’s what it would look like if Google had taken manual action on a specific section of a site for "User-generated spam": According to Google, Once you’ve ...

Google Trends updated recently with one cool (yet useless) and one good-looking feature. Visualized hot trends as they appear Google Trends Gets New Monthly Top Charts and Trending Topics Displayed In Color Visualizations. If you ask me, this UI and animation looks too similar to Windows 8 UI. Its cool to watch full screen, but in my opinion its useless and provides no real value besides trying to being cool. Google Trends - Hot Searches looks little bit too similar to Windows 8 UI Click here to open Useless Visualized Google Search Trends . Google Top Charts Now that's something I would like to see more from Google. They have this vast amounts of data being processed through their systems, and I would not even call it big data, gig (antic) data or pet (abyte) data would be more appropriate. What they have done is put together monthly TOP charts for everything thats happening, trending or interesting, and doing it absolutely nice way: Google Top Charts Categories -...

Google Hotel Finder There is a newer version of  Google Hotel Finder  HPA partner front-end available. New version allows partners to view their performance across various dimensions such as user location & google site, to manage groups and bids, and to troubleshoot issues. What's new in Hotel Pricing Ads PFE? Group Management The 'Groups' section provides performance information for all properties or for user­defined groups of properties. One of the advantages of creating groups is that you can track performance for the group. Clicking on the group displays performance information for the group. More details on the performance section is found below. Performance The 'overview' tab in the Performance section is a great way to get a high level view of the performance of HPA. At a quick glance, this page displays trends over time, performance by geography and across Google sites. This section allows the user to view overall performance infor...