Google’s index nearly doubles – google now indexing 8,058,044,651 web pages

An extract from google’s own blog,

The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep building more advanced systems for crawling the web and creating more sophisticated indices to sort what we find. So 8 billion pages is a milestone worth noting, but it’s not the end of the road. The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We’ll keep improving that too.

Read more here,:

google.com/googleblog/2004/11/googles-index-nearly-doubles.html

SEO Toolbar Spam – SEO company scamming forums and blogs to populate their new SEO toolbar

Recently a SEO toolbar was launched by an SEO company, This toolbar is marketed so badly that people are spamming some of our blogs posting link to this SEO company toolbar page, i never tried this toolbar but i hate when people spam my blogs posting their link to that SEO toolbar page,

Google Advertising Professionals

Google announces the new professional Adwords program, The following information is obtained from their website,

Designed for professionals who currently manage or want to manage multiple AdWords client accounts, the Google Advertising Professionals program can help you become a more successful ad manager – for free.

Read more here,

adwords.google.com/select/ProfessionalWelcome

Google’s cache showing indexed date as 1969

Today, when I was checking the cache of some pages on my site, I saw a weird thing google is showing the cache date as 1969, totally weird,

Speegle launched as first talking search engine

A SCOTTISH computer speech technology company has launched what it claims to be the world’s first talking search engine. CEC Systems, which operates from Edinburgh, has based its Speegle search engine on the look of Google and on its own PanaVox computer speech technology, which it launched last year. While the results of a search on Speegle are spoken with voice of an American girl, newsfeeds from the BBC, the New York Times, Reuters and MSN are heard in a Scottish accent.

More here – theherald.co.uk/business/27350.html

Infamous "Florida" Update Anniversary

The great infamous florida update did happen this time last year, I was very active that time in highrankings.com/forum and I was the starter of the florida update thread in highrankings.com its here,

highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1964&st=0

Now a new thread is started in webmasterworld.com in remembrance of the last year disaster, Here is the thread,

webmasterworld.com/forum3/26542.htm

will google do it again lets hope not again, it will be very disappointing if the play with our sites again,

Advanced link checking strategies in MSN, yahoo google,

Advanced back link checking strategy in google, MSN yahoo,

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/backlink-strategies.htm

Adsense verses Affiliate Programs which is best??/

There was an interesting thread in webmasterworld.com discussing which is better, Adsense or affiliate programs,

Read the thread here,

One poster Anthony does an interesting post which is worth a quote here,

Any who, there are many, many sites that do so well with affiliate programs that
they wouldn’t even consider running Adsense. As long as you, your site, and your
traffic meet the requirements for whatever affiliate program is avail, it can
very well outperform Adsense.
A personal endorsement, for a targeted
affiliate program can potentially blow Adsense out of the water. You can write
several articles/page of actual, useful, informative content, that also serve as
a platform to promote an affiliate. You can’t really do that with Adsense…
while those ads may be highly targeted, there is little you can do to entice a
visitor to action.
If you are talking a collection of sites, that range in
topic, and you could only select 1 advertising method… then yeah, Adsense may
be the best route. But a single site, single topic, with an available affiliate
program that fits… you may be missing out if you didn’t try the affiliate
game.
Fwiw, my best Adsense day ever is less than 1/10th of my best
affiliate program’s top day.
There are plenty of AdWords bidders that do
nothing but promote affiliate programs… and many are very profitable at it.
For example’s sake, assume that a profit is indeed being made by the Adwords
bidder. -$1 top bid for Adwords term that does nothing but link to an affiliate
program. -Since a profit is assumed, the return has to be at least $1.01 for
every click. -You run Adsense only & the above ad appears on your site.
-Assuming a rather large EPC of 70% per bid… you get $0.70/click on the ad.
Since the return is at least $1.01/click & you are only getting
$0.70/click, you are potentially missing out on an additional $0.31/click for
not running the affiliate program yourself.
A great tip, imho, is to use the
preview tool & find out what ads targeted towards your site are affiliate
links. Then rush to the affiliate site & see if it may be more profitable to
just sign up for that affiliate yourself. I’ve found several very profitable
programs through this method.
and back to the original question…
Which
is best? That all depends on your site topic, the availability of targeted
affiliate programs, and your ability to promote those affiliate programs.
Depending on those factors, it could easily go either way as to which is best
for your specific site.
I would suggest at least searching for programs that
would appeal to your site’s visitors & then give them a go. Then can be
incorporated to your site in any number of ways… all while continuing to run
Adsense.

Read more on it here: webmasterworld.com/forum89/4040-2-10.htm

Fake pagerank 10 site found

A clever webmaster does a 301 redirect and makes his site show a pagerank of 10 on the google toolbar,

Actually the original pagerank belongs to google.com he does a 301 redirect and makes it look as if his site has all those backlinks,

The questionable site can be found here,

forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=4473

We dont or display any adult sites so I am not providing direct link here,

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