Search Engines || Information Architecture
Spotted via Yahoo! News comes Google Cheat Sheet.
This reference document is part of a site that seems to be a good presentation of how Google works. Recomended for novice and adavanced users 
I’ll use it for sure on my next presentation of search engines
After its shares hit an all-time high on the New York markets on Tuesday, Google is now worth $80bn (£44bn).
Hmmmm a litlle weird but expected
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
Google Sitemap Generator v2 (hehehe already v2 
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Features:
Features:
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
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
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.
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
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.
Credits for the link go to Razvan Pop
Google’s failure in fixing the 302 redirect problem is causing them problems again
Full article
When Google bought Hello perhaps they had some big plans with it, some of them being to use the IM platform. Unfortunately after the aquisition nothing big happened and very few users know of this software.
Now, with the new Yahoo messenger this is software is made obsolete, YIM incorporating it’s features through the photo sharing service.
Too bad that Google bought the software without promoting and developing it
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