eweek reports on the new google infrastructure datacenter big daddy

eweek online magazine reports of the new google update datacenter big daddy , Many report big daddy results are spreading to many datacenters around the world, we see evidence for that too, to confirm that a google DC is live, check for the phrase sf giants , if the site sfgiants.com ranks No.1 then you are NOT seeing godaddy results, if the No.1 result shows giants.mlb.com then you are seeing big daddy datacenter results,

A small review on this was written by us, http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/2006/01/review-on-new-google-update-big-daddy.html

Andrei Broder search research scientist – expert Joins yahoo

Yahoo search blog http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000241.html reports that Andrei Broder a renowned search engine expert has joined yahoo search team,

Yahoo should be proud to have him in their team, He with Krishna Bharat, Susan T. Dumais, Steve Papa, Jan Pedersen, Prabhakar Raghavan , Sridhar Rajagopalan , Jeffrey Dean, Monika Rauch Henzinger etc had written many research papers, his huge list of research papers are here,

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Broder:Andrei_Z=.html

Yahoo search blog reports

“Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 for his work on duplicate elimination of web pages and at WWW9 for his work on mapping the web. And here’s a big list of Andrei’s papers. Andre also serves as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and has recently been named a 2006 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the theory and application of randomized algorithms”.
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Google Agrees to Censor Results in China – google accepts word censor in china

Google has agreed that it censors it’s search results due to regulations in effect in china, China which is still under communist rule have strict policies on surfing the web,
Google’s china results are served under the domain google.cn,

Because of government barriers set up to suppress information, Google’s China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine.

breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html

Google’s cache not copyright violation – google’s cache function not againt copyright

Recently nevada court ruled out google’s cache of web pages being a copyright infringement, a website owner filed lawsuit against google for caching his website and posting on their search results,

court ruled out his claim and judged google is not infringing copyrights,

check here – eff.org/IP/blake_v_google/google_nevada_order.pdf

Google Talk’s Open Federation

Google Talk’s Open Federation

On the Google Blog today, Google Talk Product Manager Mike Jazayeri announced the Open Federation for Google Talk – which has not anything to do with Star Trek notes Jazayeri. Mark this post Open Source community friendly post as the second big statement of the day, after Google’s monstrous advertising department Google AdWords announced that they just gobbled up the somewhat automated dMarc radio advertising firm.

More on the Google Talk Open Federation from the Official Google Blog:

“Open federation” is technical jargon for when people on unusual services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still send and receive email. The same for the phone: there’s nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to Sprint users.

unluckily, this is not the case with many IM and Internet voice calling services today. You can only talk to people on the particular service you have an account on (so you need an account on every service to talk to everybody, which is pretty cumbersome). With open federation, you get to prefer your service provider and you can talk to people on any other federated service (and vice versa).

In addition to the Google Talk service, many other companies, universities, and corporations support open federation today. This means you can now talk to millions of users around the world all with a single account on the service provider of your choice.

US Government Wants Search Engine Data

US Government Wants Search Engine Data

Danny Sullivan sums it up well in his SEW blog entry named Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Refused , Others Comply where he says;
The Bush administration required one million random web addresses and records of all Google searches for a one week period. The government apparently wants to find out how much pornography shows up in online searches and how often people may seek it.
Here’s a thought. If you want to measure how much porn is showing up in searches, try searching for it yourself rather than issuing privacy alarm sounding subpoenas. It would certainly be more accurate.
This sprung the need for Danny to start a thread at his forums named A Search Privacy Bill Of Rights. In that thread he asks members to answer a few questions, including; What do you think should be in such a bill? What protections do you want specifically spelled out? Should make for a nice thread.

Washington Post Halts Blog Comments

Washington Post Halts Blog Comments

Duncan Riley at Blog Herald reports that “The WashingtonPost has for an indefinite period shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog since of ‘objectionable postings.’”Duncan explains that the Post’s policy was to prohibit comments that were personal attacks or used vulgarity or hate speech. Sounds like they got a whiff of the time eater that blog comment management can be. Surprised they did not just install some filters and / or CAPTCHA tools to cut down on spamming and questionable language.“Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we’ve decided not to allow comments for the time being,” Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, wrote on the subject.Hmmm, after taking a glance at one of the Washington Post’s political blogs, it seems that comments are live again. A look at The Fix also shows comments are active. Seems that Duncan is only referring to the official Washington Post Blog, and not blogs within the Washington Post Media site. Those comment fields are still open for writing offensive postings by Washingtonians.

any one can do it, How simple it is to get an idea off the ground?

Domain name purchases soar following amazing news about MillionDollarHomepage.com ecommerce, any one can do it, How simple it is to get an idea off the ground? /24-7PressRelease/ – LONDON, UK, January 18, 2006 – If you’ve been keeping up with the news in the last week, you will be well aware of the 21 year old who’s made a million dollars in 4 months. Well,our customers have, and 100’s web addresses have registered in the last few days connecting to this unique idea. The idea was quite simple, just selling pixels as advertising space, costing a dollar per dot. The minimum purchase was $100 for a 10×10 pixel square to hold the buyer’s logo or design. Clicking on that space takes readers to the buyer’s website. And here is the amazing bit, all it took was a Domain Name and a Basic WebHosting Account which at White Star Web Hosting http://www.web-hosting.org.uk.tp starts at just $12 per month, If you want your own Forum, Blogsite or support site, perhaps to complement your on hand website(s) this is the easiest way to do it! 33 pre loaded web site scripts makes life really easy if you are a newbie webmaster or if your looking for full functionality stylish features, multi language support, 24/7 customer support, UK and US telephone numbers to speak to them directly. News stories about a young novice student making million, is the essence of Internet ecommerce, any one can do it, showing how simple it is to get an idea off the ground. With rapidly growing numbers of people joining the Internet every day, now is the time to set up your idea. Next get your self over to http://www.seotop10rankings.com and you can get all the webmaster tools and expert search engine optimization (seo – the science of getting to the top of the search engine results pages (SERPS). Get the latest information on Google’s Backdoor at no cost to you….not a dime.

Google Jaggers aftermath

There are still a lot of questions to be sure, but there are some good beginnings of answers as well. Since this update was rolled out over months and in three distinct phases, it has been much more difficult to determine what factors have been given more or less weight.

What are some theories? Here are some of the top ones and, this is not a full list; there are most likely numerous other factors that affect Google rankings after Jagger that no one has recognized at all yet. Read the following.

Factors That Could Possibly HELP More in Jagger’s Aftermath

Aged Domains – Sites with domains that are older rank better now – the older the domain, the better its rankings with all other things being equal.
Very Relevant Links – Inbound links and outbound links relevancy is more important after Jagger. This means that if you point to related sites or you get links from other sites that are related to your website, you may rank better after Jagger with all other things being equal.
Links From Trusted Sites Help – Trust Rank is more important than ever after Jagger. Trust Rank is a concept that says if you get a link pointing to your site that is highly trusted by Google then you will rank better with all other things being equal.
Variety of Links – Links from .edu and .org websites are good for increasing your rankings and are more important than ever.
Aged Links – The older the link that points to your site, the more weight it’s given now.
Embedded Links – Links that are embedded in sentences and paragraphs instead of stand-alone links are weighted more heavily now.
Article Links – Articles are what directories had been a year or two ago for link building. Links from the author by-line or within the article that point back to your site will positively affect your rankings.
Fresh & Unique Content – Now, more than ever, regularly updated and added ordinal content will help your rankings.
High Traffic & Stickiness – User popularity statistics now, or will soon, affect rankings. In other words, user actions on your website, like how long they stay (stickiness), how many pages they visit, and even how many people visit your site in a given period, can all affect how Google ranks your site.

Factors That Could Possibly Not Help Anymore, or May Even HURT More In Jagger’s Aftermath

Duplicate Content – Any kind of duplicate content can hurt your rankings. Some say this only refers to other sites having the same content as you while others say even duplicate content within your own site can be bad. I find the latter hard to believe since all sites have repeating slogans, phrases, checkout instructions, or any number of other duplicate sentences within the same site.
Hidden Text – Hidden text within your html, in div tags, CSS, or comments, can negatively affect your rankings.
Decreased Rate of Link Building – The speed and volume of inbound link creation to your site from other websites, if changed, can negatively affect your rankings more so now.
Linking to Bad Neighborhoods – Reciprocal link trades hurt your rankings when you link to sites that are considered ‘bad neighborhoods’ by Google, such as link farms or sites that are banned by Google.
Link Schemes – Participating in link schemes such as Co-ops or Link Vault can hurt your ranking more than help them.

A clean, simple, fast-loading site with natural links pointing to it from a variety of other related websites, some .org’s and .edu’s, others from trusted authority sites, and many from small related websites, that adds fresh and unique content daily, will rank well in Google over time and won’t be affected by any update, including Jagger.

Microsoft vs. Google in the Search Colosseum

There’s a great article by Jason Miller, staff writer for WebProNews on the upcoming increase in Microsoft’s push for the search market.Microsoft’s counter assault to Ad Sense will be launching in full force in June, up from the 20% of paid listings it currently provides in the MSN search results. Microsoft unveiled its ad Lab yesterday.While it’s not up yet the ad Center will be available shortly at http://advertising.msn.com/searchadv/. This story will shed some light on this important move by Microsoft at this relatively early point in what’s sure to be a major battle for the eyeballs of the world by these two giants.