Archive for June, 2005
Monday, June 6th, 2005
Barry has an article called Search Engine Guidelines Scare Webmasters that reffers to a thread at Search Engine Watch. I won’t discuss the thread here but the ideea behind.
Since when clean webmasters should fear “search engines” (read Google)? Between webmasters and search engines is a reciprocal relationship. They give us traffic and we give them content. It’s a win/win situation. But when search engines start making dictatorial rules (do this, do that, don’t dare to do that) webmasters should remember that one way or another, more or less, they have a public they can place their influence on and they could promote a much friendlier search engine.
No one has the right to tell webmasters with good “intent” what to do.
Google was promoted by webmasters and they should keep that in their minds
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
Google Sitemap Generator v2 (hehehe already v2 
)
Features:
- Full WordPress Plugin Support (just copy it in your plugin directory and activate it)
- Administration UI (Customize setting like change frequency from your WordPress Admin Center)
- Creates a static xml file called sitemap.xml in your blog directory
- Gets automatic rebuilt if you edit/write/publish a post
- EDIT:Includes Homepage, Posts, Static Pages, Categories and Archives
A mix of existing ones
Features:
- include posts, pages and category pages
- be configured as to what is included, the frequency and the priority
- gzip everything automatically
- generate only if necessary: It uses a backup file if there are no recent changes, and otherwise generates a new backup.
No time to test now gtg to Alex. But I bet the the second is the best 
It includes static pages. Hmmmm Word Press community was pretty fast on this. Guess who’s blogs will score better
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization | 6 Comments »
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
A good article points out some good rules to make your fresh directory score better in Google
There are no big discoveries in it but a good roadmap for those who want to start one
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines News, Yahoo | No Comments »
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
Yooter InterActive has discovered the largest Google Bomb ever. With 130 Million results in Google, Bloggers manage to rank George Bush #1 for the keyword ‘failure’.
Google has decided to rank George Bush as a plain failure, not just a miserable failure… but just a plain old ‘failure‘.
The Search Engines need to match the anchor text with the text onsite or else the ‘Google Bomb’ issue will not go away.
These issues paint not only Google in a bad light, they paint the entire search engine industry in a bad light. As Yahoo is suffering from the same results. MSN is the only other major engine that has yet to reflect those results.
These issues are easy to fix, why won’t Google take the steps necessary to make the search engine experience better for the users? There are nearly 130 million results for the keyword ‘failure’ . This is a far more advanced type of Google Bomb than was was employed last year for the keyword ‘miserable failure’ . With that many results it actually proves a serious flaw in the Search Engine’s algo.
This was discovered by for a few days now by Yooter InterActive Marketing. Yooter has tried in a vain attempt to contact the search engine to fix the issue. Since it was not addressed, we decided to go public with it.
We have listed the details in our blog:
http://www.yooter.com/blog
As far as I know this is the first bomb to affect Yahoo also. To be honest I have never checked on Yahoo the other ones.
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines News, Yahoo | No Comments »
Saturday, June 4th, 2005
Yahoo Japan is to start dealing in shares on the web through a tie-up with two leading brokers, highlighting the growing popularity of online trading in the country.
Link
Yahoo has tested before the blogs on the japanese market. Perhaps if this will be a success they will roll it out to other countries especially US.
As proved before on the battle with Google, Yahoo is not putting all the eggs in the same basket and is looking for good niches to back up
Posted in General, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 3rd, 2005
On Social Patterns you have a detailed article on Google Sitemap Protocol and a plugin for Word Press
What is Google Sitemap?
Google Sitemap is an account based service that allows you to monitor and submit all your sitemaps
Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.
Why using it?
- Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
- Fresher search results
- A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes
Edit:
Semiologic has a valid point on how this feature will be use by spammers:
With the new Google Sitemaps feature, you can now serve your spam pages to Google directly, and give them a low priority on top of that to lower their chances of ending up higher than your preferred landing pages. Sweet, isn’t it?
Yeah…very sweet indeed
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines News | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
The rumors on Google using human human operators to tweak their algo seem to be true:
It’s one of the best kept secrets of Google. It’s a mystery on Webmasterworld. Also in Europe (France) they don’t know what to expect from that odd URL http://eval.google.com. Click it and you get …nothing. The site reveals itself only if you have the proper login and if you use a network known by Google. Residues of Eval.google are found on the web, but the full content of the mystery site has never been published before.
MORE
Credits for the link go to Razvan Pop
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines News | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
Yahoo integrated today RSS news onto the mail application. On day one you have only the option to choose from premade RSSs from Yahoo News but it’s obviously that a customized version will be out soon.
I think that this is connected with the features that will be implemented this summer:
Ever since Yahoo acquired San Francisco start-up Oddpost last year, speculation has been rampant that the company will unveil a mail interface that rivals Google’s Gmail for usability. Spillane wouldn’t divulge details about that. But he said to expect two or three more big announcements by Labor Day. Clearly, something is in the works, and Spillane can barely contain his excitement about it.
“This is a big deal,” he said of Yahoo PhotoMail. “But we have two or three other things that are as big or bigger….There will be no question who’s the leader in email innovation.”
Source
Google is trying to do the same thing on Gmail for a time but only for a limited number of users.
Yahoo managed to score again
Guillaume has been faster then me ( :p ) to post this one so check out his review with screen shots
Posted in General, Search Engines News, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
