Is Gmail About to go public – will it be available freely to register by everyone

Google has recently given out 50 invitations to most of its gmail Users, Rarely anyone will use 50 accounts so google should be ready for the official launch of the gmail,

Gmail is still in beta version,

Google Local search link now on homepage – Bound to attract more users to google local search

Google’s local search is a great improvement from google, It is an excellent product to find a particular information in a local area,

Before this google’s local link was not there on their homepage, it was there on a subpage which was connected to the google.com homepage, Now the local search link is directly on the homepage,

This is what google says about their local search link on their homepage,

There’s been such great demand for Local search results that we’ve added a Local link on the Google homepage so you can find nearby businesses around the U.S. and Canada even faster than before. Try it out and tell us how it’s working for you. We suggest keeping an eye on Local, too – you’ll soon see even more features. Whether you’re at home or traveling, you’re now one click closer to whetting your appetite.

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is there really a Google Update – webmasterworld guys report update

Webmasterworld.com guys are reporting a possible algorithm update in google, But we havent noticed anything like that if you are interested in whining like the newbies in this thread Please pay a visit and share your feelings,

Update Allegra – Google Update thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27801-1-10.htm

Also some people are reporting google backlink update in this datacenter,

216.239.39.104

Google’s new referral program – Pay’s out 20$ per referral

Google has introduced a new referral program which pays out 20$ per referral, Criteria for earning 20$ google says this on their site,

How you get paid

One of your visitors clicks on the graphic or link and is taken to a Google sign-up page.

That person signs up for an AdWords account or applies to become an AdSense publisher.

Advertisers qualify as completed referrals after they spend $20 with AdWords. Publishers qualify after they earn $75 in AdSense revenue.

Every month, Google calculates the number of completed referrals you have directed to Google.

Once you accrue $100 (five completed referrals) or more, you will receive a check. Google only issues checks once a month (for details, see the FAQ).

More information here: http://www.google.com/referral/

Google Images search Updated, Google updated its image search

Google has updated its image search, Google has previously agreed that they update their image search only once in 2 years, Now it seems google images has been updated,

Anyone willing to check whether their images are included into google images check it out,

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Google Now caching more than 101 kb limit,

Google which used to index only 101 kb of html of a web page seem to have dropped that limit now, they now index more than that size,

Some pages on our site are more than 101 kb and they are fully cached,

For example this page size is more than 200 kb and when the cache of google is checked it shows the whole page being cached http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm,

66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:jHNYpRA2zIoJ:www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm+google+pagerank+genie+explained&hl=en

Finally we can have big pages, Also some good information pages will be cached to its fully length, So what is the new google limit, Anyone aware of it,

Google is now a ICANN credited domain registration company

Google Inc has been included in the Icann credited domain registration list,

google is listed number 895

Check this page for more information,

www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids

More on google video search visit google blog

http://www.google.com/googleblog/ features more information on new google video search,

If you have videos to be put online send a request here services.google.com/inquiry/video

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,

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html