Google Webmasters

Michael Quinn from Mildura, Australia asks: "Will it be possible to target an OS in AdWords anytime soon?

Robert Enriquez from Charlotte asks: "Websites lose back links due to other websites going out of business or closing (Geocities, AOL, member pages).

Jacob in Denmark asks: "How many bots/spiders does Google currently have crawling the web?"

A, from San Francisco asks: "Are stats from Analytics (bounce rate, time on site) a factor in a page's or domain's ranking?"

Lumenbeing from Los Angeles asks: "Since we're hearing a lot of talk about the implications of Page Speed, I wonder if Google still cares as much about relevancy?

Michael Quinn from Mildura, Australia asks: "What screen size to you consider to be the default size for "above the fold" content on a website?

Matt from Lexington, KY asks: "Is first link priority an on-page SEO factor? If so, should we modify CSS or JavaScript to show the correct link first?"

Luis von Ahn, a research scientist at Google, introduces a free service called reCAPTCHA. Learn more: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/protect-your-site-from-spammers-with.html

Linda from Lakewood, NJ asks: "If I have 3 websites, is there a problem to cross link websites?"

Matt Cutts gives his predictions for search and SEO in 2010.

Matt Cutts talks about what Google has done for users, web developers, and webmasters in 2009. See the slides here: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/state-of-index-2009.html

Bauer from Hamburg, Germany asks: "Google is showing breadcrumb URLs in SERPS now. Does the kind of delimiter matter? Is there any best practice? what character to use best?"

Mani from Delhi asks: "Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website.

Sean Weigold Ferguson from Orlando, Florida asks: "What do predict will be the big changes to "search" as we know it today over the next 3 years?

Alex asks: "What is the most common running gag over there at Google?"

PaddyMoogan from the UK asks: "If you could improve one thing or add a feature to Google search right now, what would it be?"

Sebastian from Germany asks: "We still have old content in the index. We block them via robots.txt, use 404 and delete them via Webmaster Tools, but Google keeps it.

Michael S from Dornbirn, Austria asks: "Can moving my website to "the cloud" harm my listings? Say my server's in Germany and I move the website to Google's App Engine or Amazon S3.

Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, provides tips for searching.

Alex asks: "Sometimes, when you search for a company or so, you won't get the main page as a search result. For example, you search for *example-company-name* and get their FAQ page listed first.

Matt Cutts shows some of Google's YouTube channels, some of the "hidden gems" of Google.

Matt Cutts explains how Google generates snippets and titles in search results.

Tom Critchlow from London, UK asks: "If a site owner has a personal relationship with another unrelated site in a different niche and adds a link to their site from his, this link looks a LOT like

Liam from Ireland asks: "How does Image Search traffic compare to Web Search traffic?

Felipe from Córdoba, Argentina asks: "What's the nofollow equivalent for JavaScript links/redirections (now that you follow those too)?"

Matt Cutts, a power Gmail user and a Google engineer shows which features of Gmail Labs he has enabled in his account.

Philipp Lenssen from Germany asks: "If you run a family friendly site which however every now and then mentions an adult word (e.g.

Matt Cutts walks through his Gmail settings.

AliceC from Los Angeles, CA asks: "If it appears that your site has been penalized in SERP position, but you have done nothing wrong and cannot diagnose what the problem is, how do you proceed?

"If I link back to a press article about our company, will Google perceive this as a reciprocal link and therefore give less weight to the inbound link?" London, UK This video is part of a "Grab