First-ever Google Webmaster Help Group Chat – tomorrow friday 28th March 2008

Google’s webmaster central team is hosting the first webmaster live group chat. This is a great opportunity to throw your questions to the great google webmaster team

First-ever Google Webmaster Help Group Chat (beta :)Friday, March 28, 2008
Nickname: “Can You Picture That?”
Agenda*… 8:45 Doors open This is a great time to get logged in to the chat! 9:05 Welcome! Introductions, and how to get the most out of the event. 9:15 Site Clinic: Emphasis on good fundamentals We’ll examine and give feedback on one of your sites. 9:40 Advanced topic: Images in search results Presented by our own Maile Ohye. 9:50 Additional Q&A time We guides will tackle your questions about images and other webmaster issues. 10:00 End Time to say goodbye.*All times listed are PDT. Start time is 16:00 GMT.
How to join us…
Check requirements You’ll need the following:
A telephone that can receive calls directly (no extensions) or a phone that can call a U.S. toll-free number or one of these global call-in numbers.
A computer and browser meeting the requirements on this page .
Sign in and install the chat application
Visit this URL.
Sign in with your name and e-mail address. Neither we nor WebEx will contact you using this information. Your name, however, will show up in the chat room.
You’ll be asked to install a small program from WebEx, which runs the chat software in your browser. It should take less than two minutes to install.
Join the call so you can hear us :)You have two choices: you can either have WebEx call you (the default) or call us (toll-free from most places).
Option 1 – Have WebEx call you: When the chat application loads, a window will pop up asking you to enter your phone number. A moment after you do so, WebEx will call you and ask you to press ‘1’ to be connected, and then you’ll be all set.
Option 2 – Call in: Hit cancel on the window asking for your phone number. Then dial 1-866-469-3239 from the U.S. and Canada or use one of the global call-in numbers and enter this meeting number when prompted: 573 630 075.
Listen and type You’ll be able to…
Listen to us Guides speaking
Type to fellow Webmaster Help Group members
Type (webmaster-related) questions to us during and after the Site Clinic and Maile’s presentation
If you have technical troubles during the event…In the Chat section of the application, type a note and we’ll do our best to help you.

Global calling numbers”

Australia toll free
1800-093-897
Australia toll
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India – Bharti mobile toll free
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Luxembourg toll free
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Google’s advanced language specific search – New technology

Google’s Engineers are constantly researching to bring the best user experience for their search engine users.
According to official Google blog
“One of the most important uses of data at Google is building language models. By analyzing how people use language, we build models that enable us to interpret searches better, offer spelling corrections, understand when alternative forms of words are needed, offer language translation, and even suggest when searching in another language is appropriate.”

According to them People searching around the world for the abbreviation GM search in a different way. For the US, UK , Canada and other english speaking countries GM means General Motors. Most of the time this is the fact whereas in french searches GM can mean “Guerre Mondiale” (World War), whereas in STI GM it means “Génie Mécanique” ( In english Mechanical Engineering )

More according to official google blog “To provide more relevant search results, Google is constantly developing new techniques for language modeling and building better models. One element in building better language models is using more data collected over longer periods of time. In languages with many documents and users, such as English, our language models allow us to improve results deep into the “long tail” of searches, learning about rare usages. However, for languages with fewer users and fewer documents on the web, building language models can be a challenge. For those languages we need to work with longer periods of data to build our models. For example, it takes more than a year of searches in Catalan to provide a comparable amount of data as a single day of searching in English; for Estonian, more than two and a half years worth of searching is needed to match a day of English. Having longer periods of data enables us to improve search for these less commonly used languages.
At Google, we want to ensure that we can help users everywhere find the things they’re looking for; providing accurate, relevant results for searches in all languages worldwide is core to Google’s mission. Building extensive models of historical usage in every language we can, especially when there are few users, is an essential piece of making search work for everyone, everywhere. “

Open letter we received thinking that we are Google,

A Open Letter I received from our website User thinking that we are google LOL, It was horribly written probably this guy is not a English native

Hello,

I am not a computer expert ,I spent a year and a half learning how to and building my site ,I held the No #1 spot for my category, this was no accident , I spent another year and a half matching my setup to my site, now I am 50thwhen computer people play games with the internet it has REAL consequences to REAL people,what google has done is WRONG.We would have gladly paid them there F bribe money had we know what was a foot.

Dear Goggle

I can not begine to tell you how angry I am.a year and a half of back breaking work.$250,000 investment in building and equipment a year and a half building my site and bikes, and driving it to the top of the rateings. Just to have my hopes and dreams distroyed, by your damm algorium. if you think this will make you the kings of industy, on the backs of the citizens, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!further more , its people like me and websites like mine that let people like you live in your gilded palices and I am only one small TO YOU personSHAME AND DISHONOR TO YOU!!! in case you have the balls to respond to this email!Kim.southlakeenterprize.com

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,

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