JotSpot, makers of Wiki application, has been bought by Google. It was announced by JotSpot site and Google Blog. For now the new registrations have been closed but new users can sign up in their waitlist and know about re-opening of registrations. Details about the deal have been discussed in Google FAQ . However, the financials of the deal are not being unveiled. For the deal Joe Kraus of JotSpot says on Google Blog"
Previously governing a site command on a domain was giving many more pages compared to what is presently approachable on the primary site. But this is no longer the story now. According to a WebmasterWorld thread Google site command, site: www.domain.com has become more specific. WebmasterWorld admin, Tedster, said “I also see sites returning numbers that are reasonable now when they were always 4X or worse — and I see this even in cases where there was no canonical fix (or issue) on the part of the site owner. I think the Bear got it right. The site: operator is returning better url number estimates now. Matt Cutts said that this was in the works.”
Google will soon be launching Google AdSense for Audio to monetize radio. Early in this year many podcast engineers were contacted by Google for developing Google AdSense for Audio. It was planned for a 3Q release but was delayed. It will have contextual advertising alongside the podcasts.
Google had removed Froogle two months ago and has now replaced it by a new search tool for products. New tool has grid and map as two new search results format. In Grid view you will see products lined up horizontally with details showing in hover. While in map view put products on a Google map. First view is list view which places product results vertically with snippets. All three views helps you improve type of product with with combo boxes such as 'price' , 'brand'.
Good links on your website from high quality site improves ranks within a week. A Webmaster World thread talks about improvement in ranks of pages with links from trustworthy sites in just a week. Google list in web sites search results if other trustworthy and good sites link to it. It is amazing to know that Google acts so soon on good links.
Google Alerts will now have blog search. Previously links were added in Google News for blog search. Google Alert now has five options: News, Blogs, Web, groups and Comprehensive. In Official Google Blog Naga Sridhar Kataru, software engineer said: “So many interesting blogs and so little time! If you're anything like me, you like to pick and choose what posts you read on any given blog. You may only want to read a post about a topic of your interest, or perhaps you only want to read blog posts by a particular writer or two. Hence the new Blog Alert, which notifies you about new blog search results. We've also added a Comprehensive Alert, which can show results from multiple sources (including Google News, the web, and blogs) so you get fuller information whenever your favorite topics appear online.”
'Create a site with a different address' feature has been removed by Google Page Creator. This feature was introduced by Google on 21st September. With this feature one could create changed subdomain on Google Pages. The feature does not exists there anymore. You can view screen shots. It is little surprising as their help page still talks about subdomain feature. Some people feel that Google has dropped this feature owing to many spam pages being created by web spammers or their experiment might have failed and must be trying something new.
According to reporters of DM News, Google is planning a large scale corporate reorganization. Google is planning to have a structure like IBM. An IBM like structure would mean there will be one global director for every account. Director will be entrusted with the responsibility of bringing resources to sell according to needs of company. Resources will be like Print, Display, PPC, Radio, Video etc. There is no conformation or denial of this news from Google officials.
Unlike Firefox 1.5, Google AdSense Firefox Referral program has excluded the new Firefox 2.0. An email regarding this information was received by a Forum member send by Google. In the mail Google says “Thanks for writing in about the Firefox plus Google Toolbar referral button. We currently offer Firefox 1.5 in our referral download. We can’t yet say if or when we will offer Firefox 2.0, but I’m happy to pass along your comments to our engineering and product teams.”
Google AdWords along with some other PPC engines are giving free coupons in free clicks at events of
eComXpo. New users of Google AdWords will get coupons worth $50 in free clicks. New users can access these free coupons in two easy steps. Visit the web form and give your email address and URL of website you want to advertise through Google AdWords. After hitting the button 'Send me a coupon,' Google AdWords will send an email with coupon code and instructions for starting your account on AdWords.
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