Thursday, July 3, 2008

Google and Yahoo reading flash

Google and Yahoo have apparently been working with Adobe so the search engines are now able to read Flash.
This is a very old suggestion but its been just now starting to happen.
This means flash only websites can now cheer as they will be noticed by search engines and may even end up ranking high enough.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Google Suggests Fresher Ideas In Search

Google Suggests Fresher Ideas In Search.

More options to refine based on current eventsGoogle's spidering of the Internet appears to have picked up pace dramatically, as the company noted its related search suggestions will be much fresher for users of their search engine.

Algorithmic tweaks for faster information processing make the search result suggestions appearing at Google a more timely prospect.

The announcement of fresher suggestions in Google's search results pages got lost in the shuffle yesterday, when the company disclosed its search ad agreement with Yahoo. Despite that headline grabbing item, plenty of people continue to work on improving what has become the dominant search presence on the Internet.

"You won't see related search suggestions for every query, and while they are usually shown below the search results, the algorithm sometimes causes them to display above the search results," Google said.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

May search engine optimization updates

May search engine optimization - SEO updates

Decreased SEO importance:
Text quantity importance
Link directories links

Increased SEO importance:
Website Title tag
Related backlinks importance increased

Valid through: May and June

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Google pagerank update

Over the past few days, Google has updated the pagerank. Although this is one of the bigger pagerank updates its doesen't appear to have impacted rankings too much.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Google will give people privacy in 18 to 24 months

Google has been taking personal information from every person who ever used google search, in own google words it goes like this: When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful.

But forced by goverment officials and privacy rights organizations, google is forced to increase users privacy at least a bit. Here is the full google article:

Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)—but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months.Just as we continuously work to improve our products, we also work toward having the best privacy practices for our users. This includes designing privacy protections into our products (like Google Talk's “off the record” feature or Google Desktop’s “pause” and “lock search” controls). This also means providing clear, easy to understand privacy policies that help you make informed decisions about using our services.

Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)—but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months.Just as we continuously work to improve our products, we also work toward having the best privacy practices for our users. This includes designing privacy protections into our products (like Google Talk's “off the record” feature or Google Desktop’s “pause” and “lock search” controls). This also means providing clear, easy to understand privacy policies that help you make informed decisions about using our services