It's definitely not the biggest event in twenty first century. But for search engine mortals like us, it was certainly 'net shattering.'
By the way, the news is that for last night for few hours the official Google blog, googleblog.blogspot.com, was deleted. Users were greeted with a "Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server. Please visit the Blogger homepage or the Blogger Knowledge Base for further assistance, " message. One blogger was so lured by the vanished blogspot, which has a PR of 9, that he went ahead and registered the googleblog.blogspot.com blog URL.
Google has been working with San Francisco to provide wireless access to people. Now, it has been speculated that Google will bring this facility to other places too. There are some other aspects which need attention like how to pay for the access.
Recently an article discussed a Google Patent application. This application describes a way of advertising through wireless access. Well, we are talking about three patent applications from Google which involve Google, wireless access, and advertising.
Here are the abstracts from three patent applications:
1. The first one focuses upon providing Wireless access.
Methods and system to provide advertisements in a view of an end user accessing a wireless access point. The advertisements are related to WAP based on a predetermined criterion.
2. The second one focuses in some detail on integrating advertising into the service.
Methods and system to provide advertisements in a view of an end user accessing a wireless access point. The advertisements are related to WAP based on a predetermined criterion.
3. This last one looks at how branding can be done in conjunction with providing wireless access.
In one embodiment, a connection of a client device to a wireless access point is identified. Further, the appearance of a screen presented on the client device is modified to reflect the brand associated with a provider of the wireless access point.
The new search results design that has been tested by Google is the hottest news which is revolving all over the blogosphere for the past two days. The response over the matter is tremendous with enormous amount of comments being posted by people from all across the world. The effort by Philip Lenssen is appreciated as he provided a javascript to the users, the usage of which would make you view the Google "green bars" layout experiment.
A recent study by Cyberwyre has put forward a list of Top 230 highest paying Google Adsense terms, which would now either be hiring a lawyer or refinancing from home. Other terms which would be on the Top 230 blog spam subject list are "tax attorney," "DUI," "Consolidate loans," "refinancing mortgage," "mesothelioma lawyers," & "peritoneal mesothelioma."
Bram Moolenaar, founder of the Linux text editor Vim (Vi Improved ) will now work at Google Zurich. The announcement was made last Friday in the Vimannounce Yahoo! Group. In the past several years quite a lot people sponsored his work on Vim. With version 7 on the verge of completion, and the soon to start beta testing, Bram thanked his team members without whose support he wouldn't have succeeded.
A Marxist parody site The People's Cube has said to be trashed from Google's index. It was noticed last week when a blog named as Little Green Footballs made some controversial statements regarding the issue. The matter made many of them to supress a comedic view of marxism.
Google comes with an entirely new concept of testing Google Local ads by inserting coffee icons in the Google Maps for some Google Local searches. This is termed as Google GeoAds beta which is out for less than two weeks now. This can be explained in a detailed manner, for example, if you search on booksellers nyc at Google Local, you will come across small coffee icons which will show you the "sponsored listings" for Barnes and Noble when you click on these icons. To view more details on the scintillating feature, visit Shimon Sandler's website.
A recent article on the Link Popularity stated that established sites should construct more effective and efficient link popularity. The article published by Rob Sullivan, emphasized on the fact that three places prove to be the most efficient where your business site can be listed and would function authoritatively right from its start and probably result in its rapid PageRank 4. However, an elaborated discussion on link popularity can be read on text link brokers.com.
Another few weeks left for the Big Daddy process to come to an end. With just 1-2 data centers left in the switchover process, this software upgradation of Google infrastructure will take a back seat after a while. So, just stay calm even if you get stuck in the Big Daddy's network. For a detailed study on Big Daddy updating procedure you can also visit Searchengine Watch blog. The change has been brought about to bring in enhancements in the core search quality of Google for future months. The new improved functionality would include smarter redirect handling, improved canonicalization and so forth. However, if you think all this is done with just a blink of an eye, you are mistaken. The personnels at Google have worked hard for the almost done Big Daddy status. Hats off to them!
Now, you can see Google's patent filling on advertisting funded WIFI. MsGraph of Threadwatch says that the filing is "Short and easy to read. Lists different ways for how they might display advertisements to offer free or reduced-rate wifi access." According to him Google is left with two options, either create their own network or build partnerships with other providers.
Here’s a fraction from the patent filing:
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