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Update time

Gerald — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:37:05 +0000

wordpress just fixed some bugs and made a security fix. so it’s time to update my old wp-installation. hopefully this will be accomplished without surprise.

Elizabeth Perkins is hot …

Gerald — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:40:04 +0000

… at least if you believe what Google Hot Trends is telling you: Elizabeth Perkins is spicy! At least at this moment. Two hours ago there was a peak in the google search volume for the keyphrase “Elizabeth Perkins”, hence there must have been some hot news in the old or new media which caused this to happen.

Google Hot Trends shows us the following related searches:

elizabeth perkins allure
rachel ward
allure magazine
elizabeth perkins allure magazine
billy elliot

While other infos from Google Hot Trends seem to be a little bit outdated, the Google Blog Search gives us some better hints what may have happend. Messages like Elizabeth Perkins on Allure Magazine and Elizabeth Perkins Nude! in conjunction with Googles related search keywords point to the Allure Magazine.

Solution: Explaining why she posed nude for the Allure Magazine last year, Elizabeth Perkins said: “They wanted to show that a woman my age can still look like this.”

Elizabeth Perkins is 46 years old (November 18, 1960) and is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-nominated American film, television and theater actress.

You may ask, why do you post such an article in a seo blog? It’s all about testing Google and it’s hotness factor

Striking Google Trends Update

Gerald — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:01:54 +0000

Great Update. Google Trends has updated it’s database. Trend charts reach until 17. July 2007 now. But what’s really remarkable is the fact, that the granularity of the trend statistics has been improved significantly.

In the past only keywords with bigger search volumes produced appropriate statistics, in case of smaller search volumes only incomplete or blank statistics were generated. For example, when searching for the term “PageRank Update” some month ago, this really disappointing result appeared:

Oh dear, just one peak at the end of the charts. Not the result I expected first when doing my search. After some trials and with help of the |-operator, making a conjunction of terms like “pr update” | “pagerank update” | “page rank update”, I was able to produce a better PR-Update chart with some more peaks, most probably presenting the dates of some historical pagerank updates:

And now? With the current update a simple question for PageRank Update produces an image with full details over the complete date range:

What a significant improvement. And that’s not all. In the past a search by region or shorter date ranges quite often (due to the reduced search volume) resulted in incomplete or non existing statistics. With this update the search volume threshold (from which google trends was willing to show results) must have been lowered by factors.

With graphical presentation, local and date-range filters and a database till july 17. the new google trends is becoming the keyword research tool I have dreamed for a long time. Only realtime charts are missing now, but with google hot trends there is a tool available, that’s pretty nearby. I’m dying to know what happens next

SEO Inside Blog

Gerald — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:28:55 +0000

Eigentlich wollte ich das Blog schon vor Ewigkeiten eröffnen, aber besser spät als nie.

Perhaps this will become a multi lingual seo blog