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Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 1st - 5th

Monday, June 08, 2009 at 2:33 PM

Want to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:

Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag:
In response to questions we've been getting about the videos themselves, we created a behind the scenes look at our setup. And just to throw in some more variety, Matt took a break from SEO questions for a few minutes to show off a fun use of a barcode scanner with Google Book Search. You can read more about it on the Inside Google Book Search blog.

For your instant viewing pleasure, here's the answer to the question about URL shortners:


And now a peek behind the scenes:


Feel free to leave comments letting us know how you liked the videos, and if you have any specific questions, ask the experts in the Webmaster Help Forum.

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7 comments:

Adix said...

I must delete my "coming soon" page in my web.....thank's for the information

AL KALAM said...

This is usefull information

DataPlus - Custom Data Services said...

I want one of those Cannon cameras. Interesting video about how they do it at Google.

Chris said...

Ironically as I was watching the URL shortening video I was thinking to myself, I wonder how Google makes these video's? Low and behold, the video below it told me! Can Google read minds too? ;-)

rob said...

The topics covered are certainly useful - are the responses available in text anywhere?

I'm more of a written word sort of person than a video guy.

Other than that, it's great that Google is 'pre-emptivey striking' such important topics!

tibo said...

I'll go further than Rob and pray you guys to post text transcripts of the videos since you really can't watch them during meetings :)
A picture is worth a thousand words, but I'm pretty convinced a video is a very bad way to communicate this kind of info - see the "quality" of TV news vs. old school paper news.

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