About a year and a half ago, I asked for suggestions for webspam projects for 2009 . The feedback that we got was extremely helpful. It's almost exactly the middle of 2010, so it seemed like a good time to ask again: what projects do you think webspam should work on in 2010 and beyond? Here's the instructions from an earlier post: Based on your experiences, close your eyes and think about what area)s( you wish Google would work on.

Have you given Buzz a try recently? Robert Scoble just asked if it was time to reconsider Buzz . Coincidentally I said almost the same thing in a question and answer session with Danny Sullivan last week at the SMX Advanced search conference. I'll repeat what I said last week. Do you remember when you first started on Twitter, and you didn't know quite what to do with it? Who do I follow? What do I say? I didn't really "get" Twitter for months.

A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010 . The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it's a pretty good use of your time if you're interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!

If your company has a bunch of store locations, please don't hide that information behind a search form or a POST. If you want your store pages to be found, it's best to have a unique, easily crawlable url for each store. Ideally, you would also create an HTML sitemap that points to the web pages for your stores )and each web page should have a unique url(. If you have a relatively small number of stores, you could have a single page that links to all your stores.

I'm incredibly happy that Google has added the option to search over SSL by going to https://www.google.com/ " note the "s" in "https." I'm writing this blog post in a hotel right now because I'm in Europe for a week doing a series of tech talks, but I could just as easily be working down at local Dublin cafe with an open WiFi hotspot. In both cases, I might want to do a private search that the hotel or local cafe can't see.

Okay, today I'm going to try something different again. I'm going to try live-buzzing the keynote of Day 2 of Google I/O. You can follow the live-buzz right here . I'm going to update the buzz as news comes out; if you're following on the web instead of on Buzz, you might need to hit reload to see updates. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way.

Okay, I'm going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I'm doing it with a twist. I'm going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks.

It's that time! On Monday morning 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 ones plus a few of the more interesting questions. Please submit questions that lots of people would be interested in, not just a question about your specific site.

If you're attending Google I/O next week then you might enjoy the SEO site review session that we'll be doing. If you'll be attending Google I/O, you can now submit your website for review . I'll also include the form below: Loading' By the way, if you're attending Google I/O you'll probably want to install the very spiff Android app for it. You can search for [Google I/O] in the Android Market.

I recently returned from a vacation to Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand. It was a ton of fun and I hope to blog about it at some point " each country was of course unique and each offered different, wonderful experiences. From the cherry blossoms and the kindness shown to me by my colleagues at the Google Tokyo office in Japan, to the hustle and bustle and skyscrapers of Hong Kong, to the beautiful landscapes, people )and elephants!( of Thailand, I relished every minute.

You know when you do a Google search and get all those extra url parameters that crowd things up? "ie" and "hl" and so on? I hate that, because I often copy and email Google urls, and I try to clean up the url by removing all those extra params each time. You can fix this annoyance in Chrome. Right-click on the address bar and select "Edit Search Engines'" )You can also edit the search engines via the Options menu.

)I'm traveling, but lots of good stuff from the recent SMX West search conference is now live " plus some new stuff " so I wanted to talk about it.( At the SMX West search conference I did an Ignite talk about Google's SEO audit that it did on itself. This was part of a global week of Ignite talks. An Ignite talk has 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, for a total of five minutes. Thanks to Aya Zook and Vanessa Fox for organizing,

)I'm in the middle of traveling, but I know that a lot of people will be interested in the news that Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in determining search rankings . I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts.( The main thing I want to get across is: don't panic. We mentioned site speed as early as last year ,

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.