Here's some more stuff you should know about. - I did a monster-long interview with Eric Enge . I think the interview lasted an hour or something like that, and we covered several areas in depth. - Next, take a break and go read this post by Rhea Drysdale . Heck, maybe send her a donation by Paypal. Rhea took on a big fight for the benefit of the SEO industry, saw it through to the end " and won! In the process, she earned the sort of credibility that you just can't buy.

Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search . The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results: Pretty cool. But I discovered an extra little tip. If you go to Google Bookmarks , you can find a bookmarklet that will let you bookmark random pages as you surf. Then you can edit the bookmarks " for example,

[Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.] Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders . The two assertions that used my comments as material were "Google's wealth means Google 'gets it'" and "Google must sacrifice user privacy to grow." Valleywag has either misinterpreted what I said,

In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video . The short version looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI #t=31m08s The "#t=31m08s" takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp . To do it on an embedded video, use the "start" parameter. Note that start takes seconds as a parameter, not minutes and seconds. For example,

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we'd like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you'd like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links )e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.(, here's how to send us more info. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport and tell us about the site that appears to be employing link spam.

Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten )!( trips in 2009. This year I've resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here's my current speaking/travel plans for 2010: March 2-4 , 2010: SMX West , Santa Clara, CA. I'm doing a " Ask the Search Engines " panel. May 19-20 , 2010: Google I/O conference in San Francisco. I'm doing a site review session . June 8-9 , 2010: SMX Advanced in Seattle November 8-11 ,

Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome )4.0.266.0 on Linux(. Chrome offered to install the GM script, so I said okay. The script ran perfectly in Chrome with no changes at all! I don't know how many Greasemonkey scripts will run in Chrome unchanged, but at least some will.

Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches : Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, when you type a query leaving out spaces or repeating a letter,

Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes . This works even if the page doesn't have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes in the executives page at another search engine. Check out the blog post , but it's easy to use: just add any url to Google Reader.

If you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this , but I recently recreated my "State of the Index" talk from PubCon in November 2009. Here's the video of the talk below: And here are the slides if you'd like to follow along: The talk is almost half an hour, so I hope you enjoy it and learn something new!

Huh. This looks new. I headed over to investor.google.com to listen to the Google earnings call. Normally the webcast uses Windows Media Player or Real Player, but this time it looks like the earnings call is being hosted on a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleIR instead. Cool. Go check it out if you want to listen along.

Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of the users' keywords with words that we indexed. The truth is that Google does a lot more sophisticated stuff than most people realize. I'd say that Google does more with "semantics" and both document and query understanding than almost any other search engine.

Okay, we're starting to release new webmaster videos . Normally you could follow me on Twitter to find out about each new video, but I'm on a Twitter diet until the end of January . So if you want to hear when new webmaster videos or webmaster blog posts come out, go follow @googlewmc on Twitter )that's the official account for Google Webmaster Central(.

Lots of people are thinking about ways to help Haiti after their horrible 7.0 earthquake . Google recently introduced a page with a large number of resources for the Haiti earthquake , including the ability to donate money. Also, a bunch of Googlers have worked to bring updated satellite imagery to Google Earth. You can also click to see the earthquake's aftermath on Google Maps . Finally,

This is an important blog post . Go read it from the source.

This is just a quick blog post to share some info about Google's real-time search based on the earthquake that shook the Bay Area this morning. I didn't feel the earthquake myself, but the real-time folks looked at how we did. Here's what they found: Overall, realtime search triggered in under two minutes from the earthquake happening and within a minute of the first tweets appearing . The rough timeline )in Pacific time( is ~10:10 - An earthquake happened.

I'm sitting in the Googleplex waiting to live-blog the Google Android event today. I'm on a seven day Twitter diet , but Chris DiBona is live-tweeting the event. Danny Sullivan is also live-blogging the event . I noticed that T-Mobile just announced that they have upgraded their 3G network to HSPA, which has a peak speed of 7.2Mbps. Mario Queiroz )VP, Product Management( is up to put things in perspective and look back at the history, e.g. the introduction of the G1.

I'm not going to do a full live-blog, because it's going to be well-covered by: - Danny Sullivan - Jason Kinkaid - Kara Swisher among others. You can also register and watch the event as a webcast . Marissa Mayer did a brief intro, then brought up Vic Gundotra. Vic is going to show a series of mobile demos emphasizing that phones have senses )ears, voice, eyes( via their sensors.

It's that time again! Tomorrow afternoon I'll record some new videos. I created a Google Moderator page where you can post questions or suggestions and vote topics up and down. I won't be able to answer every single question, but I'll tackle several popular questions plus a few interesting questions. Please ask questions that lots of people would be interested in, not just questions about a specific site.

I'm sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like.