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President Obama Google+ Hangout

President Obama is hanging out with the people and asking for our questions on jobs, the economy, immigration reform, or almost anything.

This is a great way to connect with people and obviously takes the concept of a town meeting a little farther.

Details are here: Official Google Blog: Your Interview with President Obama

Watch youtube.com/whitehouse 5:30pm ET on on January 30 for questions and answers.

Google Changes Algorithm to Penalize Sites with Excessive Ads

A change to the Google algorithm that will affect how websites with excessive ads are ranked. The change is intended to penalize websites that force visitors to scroll down "below the fold" to find content.

The announcement created a buzz on Google's blogs and over the web as Webmasters and SEO specialists worried whether their websites would be affected.

The change is expected to only affect 1% of all web searches. That means that only 1 time in 100 searches will you see the results shuffled from what they looked like before this change. So, Google is clearly not targeting a significant number of sites with this change.

This change is good for web users, webmasters and for Google who all benefit from high quality content on the web.