Facebook more attractive than google – :-) ***8

Google looses another senior employee to social networking start up facebook. Is facebook going to a be a powerful social networking place in future. Facebook is only next to Myspace I feel it has a long long way to beat myspace but definitely seeing the effort taken by facebook people it seems to going in the right direction

“Facebook on Tuesday confirmed that Ethan Beard, the former director of social media at Google, will join the privately held company as director of business development. Mr. Beard is the second high-profile executive this month to leave Google, a company that was widely considered one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley.
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Though google is rated by fortune the No.1 company to work recent drop in its stock value might be an other reason its employees are panicking. From over 700$ google’s share value has dropped below 500$. If it continues this way they might end up with a share price of 300$ which is not good for a company like them,

About Facebook:

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Anyone can join Facebook
All that’s needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

Discover the people around you
Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. Join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you.

Do more
Facebook’s Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

what is the future market share of Google in US?

Many predict google will have in excess of 80% , Even after US going on recession google has started investing heavily on various products. Recently they acquired Doubleclick a leading paid advertising company. They are now doing better in wireless market possibly stealing a share from Verizon in future. Back in the early 20th century many said Ford would be the dominant car manufacturer forever too. However, I think today GMC and Toyota would have something to say about that. Now, considering that Internet technology moves at light-speed compared to automotive technology… it should be a fair assessment that while Google is dominant now, 90% is pretty far fetch.

Yahoo now supports google’s effort on Open social networking

Yahoo we announced today that it has joined forces with Google and MySpace to create the OpenSocial Foundation, and will also begin supporting the OpenSocial standard. Industry consortiums such as this often start slowly and evolve over time. So far, OpenSocial is rapidly growing and adapting, but still in the early stages.

According to yahoo press release

“OpenSocial addresses an emerging problem for developers who are eagerly building applications people can enjoy with their friends: before OpenSocial, if a developer built a “favorite photos” application to work on one social network, it would have to be built all over again to work on another site. OpenSocial tackles this problem at its technology roots, providing common “plumbing” that lets social applications run on many different websites without requiring duplicate work from either developers or the websites.
The result is a vast distribution platform for social applications, whether they are for sharing photos or playing games or arranging real-world meetings or any number of other activities – everything is more fun, interesting, and useful when users can involve their friends and contacts.”

This video gives a better understanding on how opensocial works and to find more resources

Self expression and communication are often fun and entertaining alone, but OpenSocial is also a platform that can be leveraged to solve real world tasks where the social graph assists us in making decisions. For example, while some might be prone to grab a book at random off the shelf, there are many who appreciate a good recommendation from a friend. With a variety of possibilities in entertainment and interests, it can be useful to facilitate meetings, purchases, recommendations, information management and learning to create a richer, more lasting experience across your application.

Christophe Bisciglia former hacker now a google employee

Christophe Bisciglia was a former hacker who hacked into his boss’s company and flood his customers with 1000s emails he was pissed off when a argument with his boss turned out to be a violent one for him.

Bisciglia, who graduated from the UW in 2003, went to Lazowska with his idea in October, and they worked with engineers in Google’s Kirkland office to develop a syllabus for 15 undergraduates selected to take the five-week class, which recently wrapped up. No proprietary Google software was used, no internal secrets revealed, Bisciglia said. Bisciglia enjoys his job in google now when asked he said there is no chance of dropping his job as of now. His highly paid google job gives him lot of great vacations.

I hope google doesn’t piss him off 🙂

March 2008 Google Update

Google made some changes in March which affected lot of sites. Lots of sites lost its top search engine ranking, Did it affect you if yes please post in comment or post your site for free review in our forum,

Get local with Google

Google Analytics – Handle it good

Does google and yahoo regional search engines use different algorithm than the primary .com search engines. seo blog tip of the day dec 8th 2007

Does google and yahoo regional search engines use different algorithm than the primary .com search engines.
Answer to this is ofcourse yes. All geotargeting search engines needs to operate on a different algorithm than the .com ones to identify potential regional links and regional domains. Various factors affect geotargeted rankings.
Domains hosted, backlinks, domain name itself, visitor tracking, trust network in geotargeted domains, topical directories etc.
So if you want to rank for regional domains be prepared to do something different don’t use same .com and .regional extension domains for 2 different rankings.

Google’s new patent for identifying manipulated articles:

Google’s new patent for identifying manipulated articles:

Google’s Monika hensinger and Alexander Mark have identified a new algorithm to detect manipulated and duplicated articles. I feel this will be a big hit for all SEOs who use
article reproduction as part of their service/ SEO strategy. Article reproduction has been there for a while as an important and search engine friendly strategy for optimizing
sites. We are not sure how long it will last. We might post our review on this article soon

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=7,302,645.PN.&OS=pn/7,302,645&RS=PN/7,302,645

Do virtually hosted sites get banned by Google?

There had been discussions on virtual hosting versus dedicated IP addresses that multiple sites having same IP addresses will have its page rank affected and Google penalize sites which are virtually hosted.

It’s a myth if people say that Google penalize sites which are virtually hosted and is a false intuition that multiple sites page ranks are affected if they are hosted on the same IP address.

Virtually hosted sites and domains with dedicated IP address are handled equally by Google.

The statement confirmed in mattcutts blog (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/) indicating a conversion slashdotted.

“Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you’ll never see a difference between the two cases.”