Microsoft offers google deskbar with their partner package

Microsoft offers google deskbar with their partner package,

Read it here,

Microsoft urges users to download partner pack for WinXP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/partnerpack/default.aspx

Weird testing by google,

One of the webmasterworld.com member reported that he is seeing weird results when he does search,

he said “

When I do a search they have a little link on top that says “IMAGE RESULTS FOR (your search)”

And Reply from googleguy,

Um, no, you didn’t see that.

Actually, I’m not aware of a particular test like that. But it wouldn’t surprise me if someone was trying it. 🙂

Google backlink update Google Backlinks Updated 10/28/04 !!

Google is showing updated backlink data for sites in their index in these datacenters

216.239.57.105

216.239.57.104

216.239.57.99

216.239.57.98

All the more no improvement in what google shows as backlinks, still they prefer to show only random sampling of backlinks, Let us see how it goes,

Deciphering Google Penalties

A poster in webmasterworld.com posted asking how to Deciphering Google Penalties, That post sounds pretty interesting so I am posting it here,

Trying to determine the type of penalties given by Google, seems to lead to a lot of differning theories, and I am finding it hard to determine who is correct: I will give the following example that I am having, my theory on what the problem is, and am interested in hearing what the SEO experts have to say.
Our market is rather niche with what I consider low to low-moderate competition. Their is only about 10 major players in our industry, with maybe a 100 or so want to-be’s, which pop up year to year and disappear.
Optimizing for the top 10, should not be to difficult, and for the past 5 years, we have ranked #1 or #2 for our popular keywords. After Florida we were still in the top 10 after disappearing for a few weeks.
For the first few years, our site was widget.ca, and then we got a widget.com domain. We got our ISP to enter an AName (or was it a CNAME alias) in the DNS entry, so the same two names pointed at the same IP address.
Google duplicate content filter, always filtered out the widget.com from the search results and always displayed the widget.ca when searching for our popular keywords.
Around mid september, after several years of this behavior, Google now chooses the widget.com instead. The site:widget.ca -something proves the .ca is gone and the widget.com shows up with the site: qualifier.
Both widget.ca and widget.com have a PR of 5 (4 after the last PR update in late september). However the only way to get my widget.com listing to appear in the top 10 is to put the exact worlds of our title text, as the search entry.
The widget.ca site had four times the links of the widget.com, however shouldn’t the links be combined when determining PR, when you have two URLs that point to the same IP address.
If the PR was not combined, I should still show up in the first few pages, as the keywords are niche, and not very competitive.
What is interesting, is sites that link to us appear favorably in the listing, but our site is not found unless I type the title of our homepage exactly.
We are not using 301 redirects, as we are running on an IIS server, and putting a 301 redirect will create an infinite loop, of reloading the home page, unless we have two separate sites (and thus pay for the two separate sites), instead of the two domains pointing to the same IP address and directory structure.
Only our home page is indexed, as we run an dynamic site with a complex URL query string. We are working on going static this winter.
Will this problem go way on its own? If it does, how many google update cycles before things return to normal? Is this a strictly a duplicate content penalty, or are their other factors?
Could this also be a sandbox issue, as the widget.com might be consider a new entry despite being an alias for widget.ca?

Google’s Pagerank update happening

Atlast google’s pagerank update happened, Finally many webmasters/seos and site owners faces are happy since the toolbar pagerank is updated now, Hope everyone faired well in this update,

Google SMS Google Introduces SMS facility, google’s new SMS short messaging service

From Google’s SMS service page:

http://www.google.com/sms/
What is Google SMS?

Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you’re looking to find. How do I use it?
Enter your query as a text message. See some sample queries.
Send the message to the US shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on most phones).
Receive a text message (or messages) with your results, usually within a minute. Results may be labeled as “1of3”, “2of3”, etc.
To get Google SMS help info sent directly to your phone, send the word ‘help’ as a text message to 46645.
Why should I use Google SMS?
Get local business listings when you’re on the road and want to find a place to eat
Compare online product prices with ones you find in retail stores
Look up dictionary definitions to expand your vocabulary or prove a point
Find other specialized types of information, as described in how to use Google SMS

A New Google Job opportunity here:

A New Google Job opportunity :

We’re a little obsessive about digging into hard computing problems, and we love finding more people like us. One way we find obsessive smart problem-solvers is by using a standardized test. Now standardized tests can suck, especially since you usually take them to become a broke student for years on end. Which can lead to starting a career that, if you’re lucky, might eventually lead to a really cool job. But what if there were a standardized test that led, like, immediately to the really cool job? What if, for instance, there was a Google Labs Aptitude Test? There is. We enjoyed writing it, and if you’re our kind of uber-geek, you’ll enjoy taking it, and maybe you’d enjoy life as a Googler. Give it a try. The GLAT is four pages long; you can print them out here, here, here and here. When you’re done, send your completed test to: Google Labs Jobs 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 Good luck. Take your time, especially with the essay questions. And no, on this one guessing doesn’t help. — Alan Eustace VP of engineering and research

Source: http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/09/pencils-down-people.html

Google celebrating Ray’s birthday,

Google celebrated Mr.Ray’s birthday, here is the logo they designed for it,

Google Toolbar Input Validation Hole in ‘About’ Page Lets Local Users Execute Scripting Code

it seems google toolbar about Us page has some scripting error which is highly vulnerable, Following message was posting in the security tracker site,

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:51:10 +0100 (BST)From: ViPeR Subject: GoogleToolbar:About — Allows Script Injection

Affection Software : GoogleToolbar

Version : Tested on 2.0.114.1-big/en (GGLD)

Notes:

GoogleToolbar’s About section allows injection of

script, since it lacks any checking. The following

code is a Proof Of Concept.

Google Browser, Google plans to launch new browser

Google the leader in search now seem to be focused on the Browser industry, There has been wild speculation on Google’s new browser, But many information coming out are all just speculations, There hasn’t been any official statement from google regarding this, The following Whois information was found for the domain gbrowser.com , it could be google’s future browser site ,

Here is the whois information:

Registrant: Google Inc. (DOM-1278108) 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
Domain Name: gbrowser.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar Homepage: markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on…………..: 2004-Apr-26. Expires on…………..: 2006-Apr-26. Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM64.124.14.32 NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM209.25.143.102