YouTube annotations are the text overlays on YouTube videos which were introduced in June 2008 (not to be confused with YouTube captions). They can get pretty annoying at times, but now there’s an option to turn them off. Log in to YouTube and select Account -> Playback Setup -> Annotations. Uncheck the “Show annotations” box and hit the save button, and now, videos like this one should not show an overlay anymore.
[Via Techcrunch.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: How to Turn Off YouTube Annotations | Comments]
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Google’s advanced image search now includes an option to restrict results to a certain width and height (you need to enter both values to make this work). The syntax that will be added to your query is e.g. imagesize:500x400, which was previously spotted by Ionut. [Thanks Ionut!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google's Advanced Image Search Lets You Restr ... | Comments]
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“AdSense publishers are required to adhere to the webmaster quality guidelines,” Google’s AdSense program policies say, and the Webmaster guidelines state that “Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines”. However, I just spotted above TextLinkBrokers.com ad on this blog, which uses AdSense below the footer. TextLinkBrokers on their homepage say they are “Specializing in SEO Link Building Since 2003” and that they “build links in order to increase organic search engine rankings.”
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: AdSense Advertising Paid Links Service | Comments]
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David Mulder in the forum points out an example of where Google lists the exact same page twice in search results. In this case, in a search for checkbox, the URL “w3schools.com/HTMLDOM/dom_obj_checkbox.asp” pops up once on top, and once in a middle insertion where the query is auto-amended to checkbox html.
David says this happens “more and more often” and finds it frustrating, asking why Google overlooked “such an obvious complication,” but he also wonders if it was a design choice.
[Thanks David!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Listing Same Result Twice | Comments]
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You may wonder what took Google so long, but you can now set AdSense ads to a custom font. You can only choose between Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana at the moment (and this is restricted to Latin-character languages, Google notes in their blog post). Right now, ads typically default to a non-serif font, and for pages which use a serif font, switching to Times New Roman might allow you to have the ads better blend in to the overall design.
The new fonts option can be seen in a Fonts section when you set up a new ad. For your campaign you can choose your account default (which is configured on your Ad Display Preference page), or the standard AdSense font-family, or any of the three Arial, Times and Verdana.
Note because the ad font will usually be displayed as text in the browser, it depends on the font existing on the client machine, though the three fonts you can currently pick from are very popular web-wide. Something else to keep in mind: some fonts, using the same font size definitions, will appear larger (Verdana) or smaller (Times New Roman) in comparison to Arial.
[Thanks Ionut!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Customize the AdSense Font | Comments]
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