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Recently we had a crawl from Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 bot, they were searching for our xml feed, think this is new yahoo seem to be planning to start something similiar to blogsearch.google.com ( google's blog search )
This is what yahoo says about their bot "Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 is Yahoo!'s blog indexing robot. As part of the crawling effort, Yahoo!'s blog crawler will take robots.txt standards into account to ensure we do not crawl and index content from those pages whose content you do not want included in Yahoo! Search Technology. If a page is disallowed to be crawled by robots.txt standards, Yahoo! will not read or use the contents of that page. The URL of a protected page may be included in Yahoo! Search Technology as a "thin" document with no text content. Links and reference text from other public web pages provide identifiable information about a URL and may be indexed as part of web search coverage.
help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/crawling-02.html
Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills Staff Writer for cnet writes, Google were asked 7 questions regarding privacy issues, especially with the recent problems with censorship in china and the US Subpoena for search data these questions were important,
Google spokesman Steve Langdon Q: What information do you record about searches? Do you store IP addresses linked to search terms and types of searches (image vs. Web)? (Editor's note: Google pointed to its list of Frequently Asked Questions on Google.com, which says in detail what is collected and stored.) Given a list of search terms, can you produce a list of people who searched for that term, identified by IP address and/or cookie value? Langdon: Yes. We can associate search terms with IP addresses and cookies, but not with users' names unless they are registered with Google. Have you ever been asked by an attorney in a civil suit to produce such a list of people? A prosecutor in a criminal case? Langdon: We do not share information about that. (Editor's note: Google did acknowledge, however, that it has had legal requests for Gmail e-mail.) Given an IP address or cookie value, can you produce a list of the terms searched by the user of that IP address or cookie value? Langdon: Yes. Have you ever been asked by an attorney in a civil suit to produce such a list of search terms? A prosecutor in a criminal case? Langdon: We do not share information about that.
Do you ever purge these data, or set an expiration date of, for instance, two years or five years? Langdon: We keep data for as long as it is useful. There are several uses, several of which are described in our privacy policy and FAQ. There isn't a specified period. Do you ever anticipate offering search engine users a way to delete that data? Langdon: We have no plans to announce such a product. However, users can use Google without a cookie.
Google to pay verizon regarding usage of verizon internet network,
"There's no such thing as a free lunch on the Internet, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, who said Thursday that providers of bandwith-intensive Internet applications, including Google and Microsoft, should "share the cost" of operating broadband networks. According to Seidenberg, Verizon and Google are already talking about how such compensation might be structured, striking a tone far more diplomatic than AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, who last year openly criticized Internet application providers like Google and Voice over IP provider Vonage Holdings. "We talk to them [Google] all the time, and they understand the issue," said Seidenberg, in a question-and-answer period following his keynote speech Thursday at the Consumer Electronics show here. Google, which already offers a bevy of online apps like email, instant messaging, voice and satellite map searches, is expected to announce a video-download service here Friday. (Google could not be reached for comment immediately.) "
networkingpipeline.com/news/175801767
comparing to the previous google the new improved googlebot which powers the bigdaddy datacenters are having huge increase in indexed data, Could this be because of new googlebot's ( google's crawler ) effective way of crawling sophisticated Javascript, flash, frames etc??
A search for *.* showed 9,660,000,000 now its showing 25,270,000,000 ( that's more than 25 billion ) results, A search for "the" showed 8,660,000,000 now its showing 22,010,000,000
Is new bigdaddy infrastructure datacenter a step ahead in google's crawling technology??????
An interesting thread in webmasterworld.com was discussing about a site's pages which went URL only after signing up for google sitemaps, so did google sitemaps affect his site's indexing of pages,
Webmasterworld.com member mrmister says "I noticed that there are about 8 pages that are URL only. I've never seen this happen before. I did a standard Google search for my "green widgets" category page by searching for [green widgets]. It used to appear somewhere on page 1 but it was no longer there. I clicked to page 2 and I found my "history of green widgets" page sitting at the top of page 2. The "history of green widgets" page is the only subcategory page that is still listed as non-URL only. I checked my logs and Google has yet to crawl this page. The site itself is a small site (about 80 pages). It's been going in various guises for about 10 years and therefore has a fair amount of inbound links (mainly to internal pages rather than the home page). For most categories it gets to page 1 of the SERPs for two work keyphrases. I gave it a design overhaul about a year back to convert it from tag soup to clean valid HTML and CSS. I changed the linking structure and the URLs using 301s. I also improved the prominence of Adsense ads (that I'd been trailing for about a year previous) It weathered the change fine (some previous number 1 results dropped down a few places but nothing major). There have been no major changes since then. I've added a few categories. It's all been fine, every page has been indexed in a timely fashion. However a week ago, I signed up to Google Sitemaps. I am wondering if this is connected in any way with the URL-only pages that I'm starting to see. "
So what could have caused this, Submitting to google sitemaps might have been a coincidence,
We had already given good suggestions on moving domains in our blog, Nothing is more effective than getting information from a google employee, Matt cutts senior google engineer already discussed on 301 redirects ( https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/the-little-301-that-could ) Now vanessa fox reports in sitemaps blog on effective 301 redirect,
Here an extract from google sitemaps blog "Recently, someone asked me about moving from one domain to another. He had read that Google recommends using a 301 redirect to let Googlebot know about the move, but he wasn't sure if he should do that. He wondered if Googlebot would follow the 301 to the new site, see that it contained the same content as the pages already indexed from the old site, and think it was duplicate content (and therefore not index it). He wondered if a 302 redirect would be a better option.I told him that a 301 redirect was exactly what he should do. A 302 redirect tells Googlebot that the move is temporary and that Google should continue to index the old domain. A 301 redirect tells Googlebot that the move is permanent and that Google should start indexing the new domain instead. Googlebot won't see the new site as duplicate content, but as moved content. And that's exactly what someone who is changing domains wants.He also wondered how long it would take for the new site to show up in Google search results. He thought that a new site could take longer to index than new pages of an existing site. I told him that if he noticed that it took a while for a new site to be indexed, it was generally because it took Googlebot a while to learn about the new site. Googlebot learns about new pages to crawl by following links from other pages and from Sitemaps. If Googlebot already knows about a site, it generally finds out about new pages on that site quickly, since the site links to the new pages.I told him that by using a 301 to redirect Googlebot from the old domain to the new one and by submitting a Sitemap for the new domain, Googlebot could much more quickly learn about the new domain than it might otherwise. He could also let other sites that link to him know about the domain change so they could update their links."
Many have the question whether redirects pass google pagerank? Answer: It depends on the type of redirect handled, if its just a normal 302 redirect then it rarely passes pagerank, if the redirect is 301 then it will pass pagerank,
Passing of pagerank depends on the type of redirect used, if the redirects are hidden inside javascript its impossible for the link to pass pagerank, similiarly if the links are from folders blocked by robots file then it wont pass pagerank,
Google has reached new heights, Its market capital is around 127 billion which is huge,
today's stats, GOOGLE (NasdaqNM:GOOG) Delayed quote data Last Trade: 428.20 Trade Time: 2:17PM ET Change: 5.29 (1.22%) Prev Close: 433.49 Open: 429.39 Bid: 428.10 x 200 Ask: 428.20 x 200 1y Target Est: 476.31 Day's Range: 425.00 - 433.28 52wk Range: 172.57 - 475.11 Volume: 6,620,322 Avg Vol (3m): 11,177,700 Market Cap: 126.55B P/E (ttm): 94.86 EPS (ttm): 4.51 Div & Yield: N/A (N/A)
seo blog team,
A webmaster reports in a forum saying that his adsense account was closed because of fraudulent clicks on his site,
He said "An ex-friend of mine recently created a both. This both visits a site, clicks on a ad, changes its IP and comes back to click again. I was wondering why my adsense revenue for that day shot up so dramatically. My google account has now been banned and revenue lost for several of my sites. Presumably there is no chance of getting my account reinstated? Additionally, whats to stop him running this both on sites he wants to get banned? I am very very unhappy with this guy. "
this is really unfortunate, we recommend everyone monitor their adsense account actively, if they see fraudulent clicks we recommend them to shutdown their ads temporarily, Google is very strict on this issue,
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1000s of sites will soon jump into this carcaserdotcom contest, good luck to all,
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Picasa google's image editing software is now available in 25 different languages,
new interface languages for picasa are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Tagalog, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Catalan, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Picasa is a great photo organizing software, it is a must download for people who want to organize their photo effectively,
Download picasa here picasa.google.com
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