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There are several reports at WebmasterWorld where users using Firefox are claiming that the only way to search at Google is to turn on their cookies.

I've personally tested this in a few Firefox browsers and cannot replicate it. I've turned off cookies but Google still lets me conduct my searches. But at this point, there are just too many people complaining about it to not raise an eyebrow. There are tweets, forum posts and so on.

Google told me this is something they are "not testing or rolling out."

So maybe it is a Firefox issue? Maybe it is a bug in Google that Google is not aware of? Or maybe Google is not telling the truth and they are testing something? I am not sure.

Here are some of those reports:

Lately I've been unable to use Google Search without having cookies allowed. Not always, just occasionally. Today it seems to be consistent, no cookies, no clicking thru from the basic G search results page.

Is that new, or just some kind of testing?

This is a new one on me. With Firefox 10 newly installed nothing happens when I click on a Google SERPs link, but I have no problem with Bing, or the Google ads! Switching to other browsers solves the problem too. I re-installed Firefox 8 and still get the same problem! Short of switching permanently to Bing, can anyone offer a possible solution?

Do you have this issue? Can you replicate it?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Image credit to Bill Alldredge on Flickr.

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It looks like Bing’s counterpart to Google’s Matt Cutts, Duane Forrester, is now putting out Matt Cutts-style webmaster videos for Bing Webmaster Tools.

He posted this one about becoming an authority by building quality content and sharing properly:

“You being an authority means you’re an expert. You rank better,” says Forrester. “You get more traffic.That just leads to better business success for you, which is what you want.”

“The first thing is, you need to focus on fundamentals here,” he says. “What we’re really talking about is the quality you have – the quality of content you build and the quality of sharing you do socially. Those are really two critically important points.”

He gives an example of “how to build quality content” using eBay.

“Let me give you two scenarios,” he continues. “One: you’re going to sell a cordless drill on eBay, and you’re just going to take the standard information, images and such. Now, the second example, we’re going to sell the same product – the same cordless drill – but we’re actually going to take videos of that cordless drill in use. We’re going to show that cordless drill in its packaging, in its wrapper, in every way possible. We are going to amplify it. Lots of extra pictures. We’re going to do this all on our own. We’re going to write up descriptions. We’re going to put all of that together.”

“It’s pretty clear to see here by these descriptions that we’re going to have a standard view of an item for sale, and a really deep, rich, immersive view of an item for sale,” says Forrester.

The second version, he says, is the “quality”.

“That is what people are looking for to answer their questions,” he continues. “So when that comes to you content, you have to think of it in terms of, ‘Have I answered all of the questions this searcher has? Have I done it to a depth that satisfies them?’ If you can do that, you need to move on to the next step, which is sharing properly.”

“You get out there, and you’re sharing things on Facebook, or you’re putting it on Twitter. Any of the social media spaces that you like and you frequent, you’re putting this stuff out there.”

He says that before you submit this stuff, you have to ask yourself: Will my tweet or my post bring quality to my followers or my friends?

“That is a critical step,” he emphasizes. “They want you to bring them quality. They need you to bring them quality. You need to bring them quality. If you don’t bring them quality, they’re going to stop following you. If you bring them good quality links either to your content or to related content, they will continually engage with you. They will share you. They will like you. They will amplify that for you. That amplification – that signals that you’re becoming an authority socially.”

“Pull all of that together,” he says. “Now you’re starting to see things as the search engine sees it.

More on Forrester’s thoughts about search and social from a presentation he gave at BlogWorld in November can be found here.

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Bing: Here’s How To Become An Authority

25-04-2011 13:08 Matt Cutts from Google describes new tools Google is offering to users and webmasters. google.com/support can answer general user questions. http://www.google.com provides tools to - tell Google that http://www.domain.com and domain.com are the same - check robots.txt files - discover crawl errors that Googlebot saw - see some spam penalties All this is happening because Sitemaps is renaming itself and tackling a wider scope: all of webmasters. There's even an official Google blog for webmasters now at googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Matt Cutts Answerer: Matt Cutts

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22-06-2010 11:06 Some people are under the impression that blogs are good for SEO only if they're updated frequently. How much does frequency play into PageRank for blogs and other dynamic sites? Isn't the content more important than the simple # of posts per day/week? Land Lubber, Colorado

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Sam Gold, August: Osage County, Milk Like Sugar, Jesus Christ Superstar Win San Diego Critics Awards

By Kenneth Jones
07 Feb 2012

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle named The Old Globe's 2011 production of Tracy Letts' drama August: Osage County the Outstanding Dramatic Production in the 10th annual Craig Noel Awards ceremony on Feb. 6.

August: Osage County also won for Lead Performance (Lois Markle), Direction (Sam Gold) and Ensemble award for its 13-member cast. Director Gold is currently represented on Broadway with Seminar and Off-Broadway with Look Back in Anger.

La Jolla Playhouse was also honored in three categories, including top touring show for the late 2011 engagement of the Des McAnuff-directed, Broadway-bound production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which originated at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in summer 2011.

Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar was honored as Outstanding New Play. And the Playhouse-produced audio drama Susurrus, presented last fall at the San Diego Botanic Garden, was named Outstanding Special Event.

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The awards ceremony was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla, CA.

Recipients of the 2011 Craig Noel Awards

Outstanding Dramatic Production
August: Osage County, The Old Globe

Outstanding Direction of a Play
Sam Gold, August: Osage County, The Old Globe

Outstanding Ensemble
August: Osage County, The Old Globe

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play, Male
Manny Fernandes, Of Mice and Men, New Village Arts Theatre
Robert Foxworth, Superior Donuts, San Diego REPertory Theatre

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play, Female
Lois Markle, August: Osage County, The Old Globe
Rosina Reynolds, The Glass Menagerie, Cygnet Theatre

Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Female
Catalina Maynard, Angels in America, ion theatre
Diana Reasonover, Stick Fly, Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company

Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Male
David Ellenstein, My Name is Asher Lev, North Coast Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Touring Production
Jesus Christ Superstar, La Jolla Playhouse

Outstanding New Play
Kirsten Greenidge, Milk Like Sugar, La Jolla Playhouse

Actor of the Year
Brian Mackey

Outstanding Young Artist/Sandra Ellis-Troy Scholarship
Lucia Vecchio, The Diary of Anne Frank, Onstage Playhouse

Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work at a Small Theater
ion theatre for Angels in America

Outstanding Resident Musical
Jane Austen's Emma, The Old Globe

Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Sean Murray, Cabaret, Cygnet Theatre

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical, Female
Linda Libby, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, ion Theatre
Karson St. John, Cabaret, Cygnet Theatre

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical, Male
B. Slade, The Who's Tommy, San Diego REPertory Theatre

Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical, Male
Randall Hickman, Hairspray, Moonlight Stage Productions

Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical, Female
Katie Whalley, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, ion Theatre

Outstanding Musical Direction
Steve Gunderson, The Who's Tommy, San Diego REPertory Theatre

Outstanding Choreography
David Brannen, Cabaret, Cygnet Theatre

Outstanding Music for a Play
Shaun Davey, The Tempest, The Old Globe

Outstanding Sound Design
Melanie Chen, Angels in America, ion theatre
Deborah Gilmour Smyth, The Book of the Dun Cow, Lamb's Players Theatre

Outstanding Costume Design
Jennifer Brawn Gittings, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) San Diego REPertory Theatre
Jeanne Reith, The Servant of Two Masters, Lamb's Players Theatre

Outstanding Lighting Design
Michael Gilliam, Jane Austen's Emma, The Old Globe
Karen Filijan, Angels in America, ion Theatre

Outstanding Set Design
Tobin Ost, Jane Austen's Emma, The Old Globe

Outstanding Special Event
Susurrus, La Jolla Playhouse

Outstanding Projection Design
Peter Nigrini, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, La Jolla Playhouse

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Founded in 1983 and re-established in 2002, the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is an independent, nonprofit organization of print and online theatre critics dedicated to open and honest dialogue about theatre in San Diego County and to honoring artistic excellence.

The members of our organization are professional critics writing for daily newspapers, magazines, alternative weeklies, entertainment trade publications, broadcast media, and web sites in San Diego County.

The Circle's annual awards for outstanding San Diego theatre are named for the late Craig Noel, founder and longtime artistic director of The Old Globe.

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