Google’s www2 and www3 sites are broken

Recently I noticed a peculiar activity on the www2 and www3 google datacenters, Both of them redirects to google.com, So why is this happening, As usual many people in top SEO forums predict there is a big update coming on, They think probably google is testing their new data there and hidding it from us,

But my opinion that is not the case, Goolge took away all the other datacenters from us before 10 months now they removed this too, They probably think they are helping webmasters/SEOs too much, Probably they want to reduce a huge manipulation on their search results, We have to wait and see,

Microsoft to challenge Google

An ebullient Steve Ballmer, president and chief executive of Microsoft Corp, said yesterday that his company is “hell-bent and determined” to challenge Google Inc. for leadership in the Internet search business.

Ballmer also said,

Existing search tools still generate lots of useless results. Ballmer said Microsoft plans to invent new search technology that will change this, and make life more difficult for Google and other rivals.

Source: (boston news)

Google AdSense™: New features

Google now a public company is moving forward with their contextual ad program, the google adsense, I recently got this mail in my inbox since i am a Adsense publisher on some of my sites,

We’re pleased to introduce a number of new features to your account.

Multiple ad units

To provide even more value to your users, and to help you further monetize your web pages, we’re allowing publishers to place up to three ad units on every web page. Our system will automatically recognize the additional ad units, and will serve unique ads to each. Your ad units can each have different color palettes, formats, and alternate ad URLs, providing you with the flexibility you need to incorporate Google ads into your site design.

Collapsing ad units

An additional option for your alternate ad content, Google’s collapsing ad units ensure that your page space is used to its maximum potential at all times. When targeted ads aren’t available for an ad unit, the collapsing ad unit feature will shrink the empty ad unit, so that blank ad spaces are eliminated from your page. For instructions on implementing this feature, please read the AdSense FAQ.

New name for WebSearch

We’re dropping the ‘WebSearch’ from ‘WebSearch plus AdSense for search.’ This monetized search feature will now be referred to simply as AdSense for search – but all of the same great features remain. For more information on providing customized Google internet and site search to your users and earning money from clicks on targeted ads, please read our FAQ.

Multiple domains for AdSense for search SiteSearch

Your Search Settings page now provides you with the option of specifying multiple domains for SiteSearch. Simply enter up to three domains when generating your search code – your AdSense for search box will list each domain with a radio button, allowing your users to choose the site on which they would like to search.

Ads by Goooooogle

We’re currently running a test with new branding features on Google ads. You may notice some of your pages displaying ‘Ads by Goooooogle’ ad units. We welcome your feedback on this new look, and we’ll be analyzing the results of this test over the next while.

How to contact us

We’re very excited about these new features, and we’re always happy to answer any questions you may have about them, or about the AdSense program. You can contact us at adsense-support@google.com.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

Google me: Neighbours from hell

Third Google Crap Backlink update in a row,

We recently had the third Worst backlink update in google history, They started showing randomized and low Pagerank ( PR ) backlinks from the end of Jun 23rd 2004, From that day they has been 3 backlink updates and all of them are crap, Google mission to tackle link mongers is appreciable, But making themselves look funny in this process is the worst part IMO,

I personally like google to remove the link: command instead of a massive attempt to mess up with link mongers/SEOs and webmasters,

This post is not an attempt to criticize google but to show my personal frustration answering my SEO clients who keep asking me where are my backlinks,

Seekport european search engine takes on Google, Yahoo and other top search engine gaints

Google rules the world today but there is serious competition coming up for the search engine in European markets especially the non-English speaking ones. Not too happy with the US-centric search engines are the Germans and they are looking for alternatives that would be more relevant to them, says Ranjit Dhuru, chairman and CEO of Aftek Infosys. Source: financialexpress.com

Online Consumers Happiest With Google

what *is* Google going to do with $1.8 billion?

There is an interesting Forum discussion thread going on in webmaster world one of the leading seo marketing forum in the world, People there started speculating what google will do will all the money they get from their Stock, This IPO has brought some good money into google and we are yet to see Google’s future plans on what they are going to do with all their money,

Ok Here are some pick from what people want from google from that thread…. – my comments are added as well,

1. Hire more PhDs(Search algorithm scientists) to find spammers. This is a point even I stress upon I hate Spammers winning in google and i would like Google to fight bad unethical practices more vigorously,

2. New Google directory: I would love to see one, I hate these Dmoz volunteers taking control of the whole directory and never accept many many quality site submissions, Instead we see lots of starter sites with only 3 or 4 pages accepted, That is too weird cant understand what criteria they use to accept site submissions but sometimes it looks pretty ridiculous, I wish Google comes out with an excellent human edited directory, But with real people who are paid to do their work, I wish Dmoz is dropped by Google soon,

3. Google branded browser based on Firefox or a G-branded IM client. Good ask from google, But I personally feel Internet Explorer is much more comfortable and adaptable than any other browsers, Many applications are built around the compatibility of Internet Explorer and it makes it difficult to use other browsers which lack in compatibility, Regarding I am client I would like to see one from Google, I personally use Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AOL, Indiatimes messengers. I don’t mind using an other one especially from google which I love,

4. ISP business – I don’t want Google to get into ISP services just because it has a potential risk of loosing their Branding,

5. Google Auctions – Already lots of auction sites out there, Cant sit out to see an other one from Google,

6. Overture acquisition – Silly As if Yahoo is ready to sell it,

7. RSS desktop version MyGoogle – Good ask, wish Google comes out with something like this,

8. Google SEO – LOL, i had a Giggle on this, If Google is out into SEO business there are 1000s of companies willing to spend millions of dollars to them, But what happens their results will be completely corrupted and all junk sites will be on top, Anyway funny wish to google,

9. semantic web — Ahh that will be great, Google moving into semantic understanding of queries, it is going to be one difficult job to achieve this, hope to see something like this coming soon,

10. A better search engine – SteveB an experienced poster in webmasterworld suggested this, I think steve has to say this to yahoo, Google does some great job improving their Algorithm, They are constantly working on it but yahoo on the other hand sits of Onpage factor analysis and pushing lots of junk sites on top, I wish Google takes care of them selves to build a better search engine, I appreciate all their efforts towards it,

Recent Google Bug – Homepage dropped due to Duplicate content,

There was a recent bug reported by some webmasterworld guys regarding homepages of sites dropped from the index, Many sites out there lost their homepage due to some kind of duplicate content penalty, Google Guy who is mostly regarded as an important representative of Google replies to it, Here is his response:

Hey bakedjake, I think I’ve found your problem. There’s no penalties or anything like that; it’s because you’re splitting your internal linkage between two different root pages. Suppose your domain is yourdomain.com. Do the search [site:yourdomain.com inurl:https]. See those 912 https results? Click on the cached page for the first one. Now mouseover the link in the top left. Instead of pointing to http://www.yourdomain.com/, notice that it points to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp. All the https cached pages that I checked link to the index.asp version of your home page, and there were enough of your internal pages doing that that you convinced us that http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp was the canonical root page for your domain. That’s why when you do the search [yourdomain] you see http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp as the first result.

So your hundreds of internal https pages pointing to a different location is clouding the water some. If you fix them to all point to the same location (http://www.yourdomain.com/) then we’ll crawl all those pages in a little while, and you should be fine shortly afterwards.

I guess the takehome message for non-bakedjake members is to doublecheck your internal linkage. I’d pick a canonical root page like http://www.yourdomain.com/ and just stick with that by making sure any internal pages point there instead of to other versions of your root page.

New ASCII image generation tool – Using Google images

I just found this excellent ASCII image generation tool, it is really exciting, It gives an opportunity to view some top people images all generated with small character containing their names, This tool is really amazing, it fetches images from the google database and rearranges with characters,
Check it out your self, http://c6.org/toogle

Here are 2 image searches for the phrases “sergey brin” and “Larry Page” Google founders