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Yahoo sets off with video search competing with their rivals

It looks like a great improvement and should help a lot of yahoo search visitors,

Google Video searches TV programs

Google's new video searches TV programs, Check it out here: http://video.google.com

What google says about their product

"Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.
Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the "About this show" side panel to learn when this show will air next."

Googleguy replies to the nofollow tag newly invented for prevent blog spam by spammer SEOs and SEO companies

This is just a new building block that lets software makers have better
granularity--at a link level instead of a page level. And they can declare
things about the authorship of a link that they couldn't before. Lots of people
are using it to do smart things; for example, LiveJournal can recognize
authenticated users and they won't get the nofollow tag. So it's not the case
that every comment or trackback will be reduced in value. Last week, a software
maker didn't have that ability, but now they do.
In other words, if you trust
a user or like their comment, it won't be hard for them to get search juice from
commenting on your posts. I believe that adding this flexibility for software
makers will be a very helpful thing in the long term.

google guy has commented in battle media blog here, battellemedia.com/archives/001197.php#9161 about the new nofollow attribute which will be added soon to comment spam to prevent comment spamming,

Read more on google's effort to combat comment spam here,
https://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

MSN beta search google live in search.msn.com

MSN search which has been in beta testing for a long time went like now in search.msn.com , people who are having a great ride ranking in beta should be very happy, people who had a bad time ranking in beta might be a bit unhappy, overall it is a good move,

Froogle security hole reveals gmail accounts of the buyers,

New security flaw in Google's price comparison engine, Froogle, was discovered by an Israeli hacker.
By embedding JavaScript in a URL pointing to Froogle, a hacker can gain access to the user's Gmail account. The JavaScript redirects the browser to a malicious web site, where the hacker can read the user's cookie, which contains personal information, such as purchase history, user name and password for Google services.
According to Nir Goldshlager, who discovered the flaw, even if the user chooses not to save the cookie, the hacker can still discover the user's user name and password for other google services such as Google Alerts ,Google Group because google stores a unique number per user that identifies the user is other google services, and the hacker will be able to read this identification number.

Report was originally translated by aviransplace.com from hebrew,

Original report of the flaw in english format is here,

www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/13/serious-flaw-in-froogle-reveals-gmail-accounts/

Google Directory updated - in 216.239.39.104

Google directory has been updated with dmoz dump, Google which uses dmoz directory has now updated its directory with latest dmoz data, Search Engine Genie which was recently acquired into dmoz starts appearing in certain datacenters of google directory,

Check this datacenter directory whether your site appears in google directory,

http://216.239.39.104/Top/

To check other google datacenters for SEO purposes just replace the IP address with the targeted IP of the datacenter you want to watch,

Google hacking expected to boom in 2005 -zdnet.com article

zdnet.com article states google search has become hackers play ground where they find sensitive information indexed by the google web crawler ( googlebot) They say even surveillance web cams exposed on the net are a threat

more news here news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39184116,00.htm

Google introduces --- Google Mini for enterprise search

Google mini is an excellent product highly scalable and perfect for corporate users to design a perfectly searchable intranet,

Some cool features of google mini, this is what google says about their product,

Google search quality
We've taken Google web search and optimized it for use on public websites and intranets to deliver relevant search results at record speed.
Familiarity breeds contentment
By providing the same familiar look and feel as Google.com, the Google Mini offers a search solution that your users will actually use. You can weave Google into your site design either by giving the Google Mini interface a "mini" make-over using a built-in wizard interface, or by doing a full facelift via the Mini's XML feed. Making users smarter
The Google Mini's productivity-enhancing extras include a self-learning spell checker, the ability to view documents in HTML (instead of having to download plug-ins) and accessing cached versions of documents — even the ones that are offline.

1bu.com proxy creates mirror copys of your sites

Google.com is mirrored and displayed as a subdomain of 1bu.com, Already google is suffering from 302 redirects and causing dupe content penalties, this new feature of 1bu.com proxy might be a major problem

site:1bu.com has more than 150,000 pages indexed in google and most of them are mirror pages of established sites, check it out here, https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A1bu.com

beta.exalead.com search engine shows more than 2000 results

http://beta.exalead.com/search, a new search engine which powers a small part of ask jeeves shows upto 2000 results, Google/yahoo and MSN show only top 1000 results, But exalead shows 2000 results, It is very good for SEO research purposes people have look,

A search for search engine optimization reveals results upto to 2000 results

Screenshot,

Gigablast Hits One Billion Pages

Gigablast Hits One Billion Pages - It seems gigablast is moving fast, it was started by Matt Dwells, He says he hard coded the whole search engines from scratch in his blog "http://www.gigablast.com/rants.html"

Gigablast has fast indexing capabilities, Now it seems they reached the 1 billion pages mark, Read the press release here,

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-06-2005/0002774645&EDATE

Everyone must have heard of the dreaded google sandbox algorithm where a new site or a site which gains more backlinks in a short period of time gets into sandbox where it fails to rank for competitive terms,

it seems google has finally clicked the magic switch in these datacenters

http://66.102.7.99
http://216.239.53.104
http://66.102.7.104
http://66.102.7.105
http://66.102.7.147

most of the sites we monitor which deserved top 10 rankings are now ranking in the deserved positions in the above DCs, lets hope it migrates to google.com and sticks, hope everyone sees their sites in top positions in the above DCs

Cindy McCaffrey plans to leave google marketing Job,

It seems cindy mccaffery has planned to leave google, She has been a core person in google's marketing department and it is a big lose for google,

Silicon beat says, www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2004/12/19/mccaffrey_leaving_google.html

Google's vice president of corporate marketing, is leaving the technology
company, the first top executive to depart after the IPO. McCaffrey has been
chugging away at the P.R. business for 20 years, including gigs at Apple
Computer, E*TRADE and the 3DO Company. And that's after starting a career as a
journalist. She's been at Google more than five years, which means that,
post-IPO, she can comfortably go off and do nothing. And that's apparently what
she intends to do for now

Does google lag / sandbox algorithm really exist or it is just a type of spam filter and the new site penalty is just a myth?/?

Check the top 10 results for tsunami,

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tsunami

this site tsunamihelp.blogspot.com is completely new but ranking in top 3 for the keyword tsunami, It is breaking our head what causes some new sites / new pages with sudden boost in backlinks not appearing in the top results of google,

Has been seeing lot of theories across various forums but none of them give real quality targeted information we need,

So what causes this sandboxing of sites, will it ever get released ?????

Google top 10 queries for the year 2004

Google also has revealed their top 10 queries for 2004,

Here is the list,

Popular Queries2004
1. britney spears
2. paris hilton
3. christina aguilera
4. pamela anderson
5. chat
6. games
7. carmen electra
8. orlando bloom
9. harry potter
10. mp3

Source: https://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Yahoo reveals top searches of 2004, yahoo's 2004 list of top search engine queries

Yahoo has made available the list of top queries performed in their search engine in the year 2004,

Check it out here,

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/
Top 10 Search Terms
1.American Idol
2.Paris Hilton
3.Jessica Simpson
4.Britney Spears
5.Harry Potter
6.WWE
7.Usher
8.NASCAR
9.NBA
10.NFL

Happy New year from Search Engine Genie Team

Search Engine Genie has a team of dedicated professionals qualified in PPC, SEO, shopping feeds, implementing shopping cart, web development, programming in PHP/Mysql and most of the server / client side languages,

it has been a successful year for Search Engine Genie, We will be pleased to post more interesting articles on our site in coming months which will benefit both end users as well as people searching for information they need,

We mourn for the tragic tsunami which took more than 100,000 lives, We made all efforts to the needy people in Tamil Nadu,

We take this opportunity to thank everyone who visits this site for quality information as well as providing us good business,

Search Engine Genie Team,

Google toolbar pagerank update on Jan 1 2005

Google has updated its toolbar pagerank after a long wait of 3 months, this is evident that google has moved into quarterly pagerank updates on their toolbar,

Anyway there is something to be happy about, Check your updated pagerank by downloading google toolbar is you dont have one,

We updated our Pagerank 10 sites list check it out here