Friday, June 11, 2004

Froogle Search: manchester airport flights airlines guide

Froogle Search:
From; 'searchenginejournal@yahoogroups.com' "I don't know if it helps the searchengine visibility, but it can't hurt. I know that when someone does a search, Froogle will only display 1 listing from each vendor in the results, but customers can see more listings for a certain vendor by clicking a 'more listings' link under each image. My company has been in Froogle almost since its inception, and the only challenge we've experienced is that no one really has any control over WHICH products are displayed for a particular search.

Slashdot | Google Finally Moves Toward RSS Standard

Slashdot | Google Finally Moves Toward RSS Standard:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 10, @05:19PM
from the i-miss-ultramode dept.
declan writes 'My News.com colleague Evan Hansen just got his hands on an internal email thread revealing that Google is planning to embrace RSS. Evan's co-authored News.com article quotes from the email (sent to Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt) confirming that Google is rethinking only supporting Atom. "

Thursday, June 10, 2004

China & Google purchases

Instant Position Search Engine Marketing Forums: "Google has been trying to go strong in China for some time, with lots of problems.

Now they are going for a different strategy:

'Now, Google is making an investment in one of China's largest search engines, Baidu, which means ``hundred times.'' Google won't comment, but the investment was confirmed by U.S. investor Tim Draper of Menlo Park's Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested $10 million in Baidu. The move might give Google a way to secure its position in China and gain leverage over its chief competitor there.'

Full story: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/8867532.htm?1c "

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Yahoo tests new home page | CNET News.com

Yahoo tests new home page | CNET News.com: "Yahoo has begun quietly testing a makeover of its home page, as evidenced by trial mock-ups seen by some Web users over the past few weeks when they accessed the portal... Yahoo's home page changes are few and far between. The company has long remained militant about maintaining the site's speedy load time and visual style, resisting a heavy use of graphics and animation. Before its 2002 makeover, Yahoo's home page had maintained its basic framework since 1995. "

Yahoo email: The e-mail revamp, slated to launch this summer, will include a boost in memory to 100MB for free users and "virtually unlimited" storage for its paid customers. The move is meant to counter archrival Google, which plans to launch a free e-mail service called Gmail that offers 1GB of storage.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the Google search machine

BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the Google search machine: "Google used to update its web index every month which, because it caused results to jump around a little, was dubbed the Google Dance. But not anymore, says Mr Cutts.
'Within the last year we have improved out way of processing and indexing the web,' he says. 'You are not going to see Google dances.' 'Now we crawl a percentage of the web everyday,' he says, 'so after a relatively small time frame we hit every page.' "