Google kills bmw.de, Hunting Search engine spammers in other languages,

As matt cutts puts here
google is now targeting search engine spam in other languages too, Google has
banned ( update – possibly re included because of cleaning up of spam ) bmw.de
( official BMW site for germany ) from their search index, they did this because
the seo company for bmw used the infamous javascript mouseover redirect to show
one version of the page to the user and other version to the search engine,

One SEO company and their clients were totally banned from the search engine because
of this tactic, Now google has started catching this problem in other languages, BBC
has a nice right up on this, they had a word with the bmw spokesmen this is
why they said,

A BMW spokesman admitted the company used the doorway pages, a
practice known as search engine optimization and banned by Google.

But the spokesman insisted the company’s intentions were honorable.”We
did not provide different content in the search results to the final website,”
Markus Sagemann told the BBC News website.”However, if Google says all
doorway pages are illegal we have to take this into consideration.”

Our thoughts,

First of creating doorway pages are not part of search engine optimization,
we can call it search engine spamming definitely not search engine optimization,
next it is weird that BMW need to use such tactics simple and decent optimization
will get their site good results they don’t have to spam atall, They have to
blame their web designers for not designing a site compatible with search engines,
It is important that every company involved in web design should take search
engines in their mind when they do the design, I hope all SEO spammers will
learn a lessen from this,

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”.
“

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

GoHost website is introduced by NetStrategies

GoHost website is introduced by NetStrategies

GoHost website is introduced by NetStrategies at www.gohost.com.

GoHost provides SEO toolkid which helps small business sites are more findable to the search engines. So when potential customers searches the word which related to your business, they may find your site before your competitor’s site.

http://uk.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=14364

yahoo to offer voip service at cheaper price than skype.com

Summary:
Yahoo is expanding its reach in the fast-growing Internet calling market, offering a service that will allow people to make and receive low-cost computer calls to and from regular phones.The long-expected move could make the Sunnyvale company one of the biggest players in the Internet phone-calling market, along with eBay-owned Skype Technologies, Vonage and others.With the new service, the estimated 82 million people worldwide who use Yahoo instant messenger will be able to call any traditional fixed or wireless phone number in 180 countries.The service comes with a free voicemail box.Although the calls will not be free, they will be extraordinarily inexpensive — a penny a minute to anywhere in the United States and less than 2 cents a minute to more than 30 countries, including China, Japan and Sweden.“These prices, in most cases, offer dramatic reductions over other competitors out there,” said Jeff Bonforte, senior director of voice product management for Yahoo.The company briefed media outlets on the news earlier this week under agreements that they would not publish it until the service launched.The number of companies offering Internet calling — also known as Voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP — has soared in recent years as high-speed Internet use becomes more common.Most companies charge a monthly rate and their services are designed to be used as regular phones, except that the phone plugs into an Internet connection instead of a traditional phone network.AT&T, Vonage, Comcast, AOL and Packet8 are among the myriad companies with VoIP calling plans.Yahoo will charge $30 a year to purchase a phone number for incoming calls; Skype charges $35.

Is kazzoom bigger than google – they claim to have more than 50 billion pages,

www.kazzoom.com the new turbo search engine claims to be the largest search engine, they say they have more than 50 billion pages, Google claims to have online around 15 billion pages, So is kazzoom telling truth we just have to wait and see,

this is what they say on their about us page,

“Kazzoom! Washington,DC The worlds most powerful city now has the
worlds most powerful search engine! KAZZOOM technology includes the internet as
you know it plus Mega-Web content from over 65,000 searchable databases,
internal content. Kazzoom`s Search Portal will allow you to:
Get all
qualified information for sharing or upon which to base decisions, Have access
to a complete and robust set of knowledge management tools Flexibly and directly
respond to the needs of individual users.
KAZZOOM integrates DC Net
,National Press Building,the White House, Congress, national security issues,
the economy, legal affairs, science and other beats. Kazzoom includes Washington
institutions such as , Congress,the White House, the Pentagon and even the
Smithsonian. Kazzoom covers all government politics, finance, health, foreign
and military affairs, science, and the environment – all subjects that reflect
and affect the lives of people across the world.”

what is this turbo search technology can somebody explain??/

Google launches mobile version of gmail,

Google has recently introduced mobile version of gmail, That is a great break through with their dominant email service,

Google says this on their help page

“Now you can access your Gmail account from your mobile phone or device. Just point your phone’s web browser to http://m.gmail.com. Your Gmail account stays synched, whether you access it from the web or the mobile interface. It’s easy to use and it’s free (but yes, your wireless plan could still charge you).It also has these cool features: • Automatically optimizes the interface for the phone you’re using• Opens the attachments you receive in messages, including photos, Microsoft Word documents and .pdf files• Lets you reply by call to people whose phone numbers are in your Gmail Contacts list”

I dont how it displays in my Nokia 7710 widescreen, will give it a try and post it here, I currently use gmail as my primary email and i’mm very excited that google has brought gmail to mobile, Way to go google,

Power.

Microsoft – AOL Deal just a dreamproject – Google captures the chunk of share for a billion $

Recently there has been a lot of hype that AOL might switch to MSN search as their paid and natural search results provider, AOL is using Google now, It seems that was the case anymore, Recent reports state Google will remain AOL’s search partner, This is interesting, think google knows if they drop AOL they might loose a lot of search market share,

Microsoft have to wait for the next round probably,

Yahoo launches yahoo answers

Yahoo launches yahoo answers, Google already has a product similiar to that named google answers. Google answers has been a great help for everyone having questions about any topics they deal with or come across, Now yahoo has launched a product like that,
its named yahoo answers,

http://answers.yahoo.com

this is what yahoo says on what has to be done with yahoo answers

Asking a question
CategorizeWhen asking a question, you categorize it in a topic, making it easier for others to find and answer it.
Open QuestionYour question is open for others to answer for 14 days. You can extend or shorten this time period.
Voters’ Choice for Best AnswerOnce your question is answered, select the best answer, or have the community vote for the best answer

Google Tops List of New Nasdaq 100 Entries

High-flying Internet company Google Inc. and 11 other companies were added Monday to the Nasdaq 100, the Nasdaq Stock Market’s index of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the market. The Nasdaq 100 is a widely used benchmark for a variety of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. The Nasdaq 100 Index Tracking Stock, better known as the QQQ, is one of the most popular index-linked stocks in the world and is a component of hundreds of mutual funds and pension funds. The trust that runs QQQ has more than $20 billion under management.

more here www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2005/12/12/ap2386241.html