Saturday, June 04, 2005
Google launch beta Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps - Welcome!: "Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.
With Google Sitemaps you get:
Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
Fresher search results
A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes
Creating your sitemaps is easy
Use the Sitemap Generator to create an XML Sitemap or submit a simple text file with all your URLs.
Get started today — it's free
Send us your sitemap today and help increase the visibility of your web pages."
Google Sitemaps Help
Google Sitemaps FAQ
Google Groups : google-sitemaps
Danny Sullivan of searchenginewatch.com blogs Q&A session with Shiva Shivakumar, engineering director and the technical lead for Google Sitemaps.
Google Blog: "Posted by Shiva Shivakumar: We're undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams, in making the web better for webmasters and users alike. It's a beta 'ecosystem' that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index."
With Google Sitemaps you get:
Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
Fresher search results
A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes
Creating your sitemaps is easy
Use the Sitemap Generator to create an XML Sitemap or submit a simple text file with all your URLs.
Get started today — it's free
Send us your sitemap today and help increase the visibility of your web pages."
Google Sitemaps Help
Google Sitemaps FAQ
Google Groups : google-sitemaps
Danny Sullivan of searchenginewatch.com blogs Q&A session with Shiva Shivakumar, engineering director and the technical lead for Google Sitemaps.
Google Blog: "Posted by Shiva Shivakumar: We're undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams, in making the web better for webmasters and users alike. It's a beta 'ecosystem' that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index."
Google shares growth
Net Stocks: "Throughout the last six weeks, or since mid-April, Google shares have increased by about 7% a week, or 44% altogether..."On Friday, UBS became the second bank to establish a $350 target, but the first to establish a 2007 per-share outlook. CSFB slapped a $350 price target on Google earlier this week.
UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter predicts Google can earn $9.02 per share in 2007."
UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter predicts Google can earn $9.02 per share in 2007."
Friday, June 03, 2005
Buzz buzz buzz Google Secret Lab...not so secret
Whooaa, so Google employees have access to an intranet...
Henk van Ess's Search Bistro Ess shows one way too get picked up by /. immediatly...
"It's one of the best kept secrets of Google. It's a mystery on Webmasterworld. Also in Europe (France) they don't know what to expect from that odd URL http://eval.google.com. Click it and you get ...nothing. The site reveals itself only if you have the proper login and if you use a network known by Google. Residues of Eval.google are found on the web, but the full content of the mystery site has never been published before. Here it is: the real story about Eval.Google. They use... humans!"
Whooaa,so Google employs humans for QC...stop press news! Really? I don't think so...from a selection of the current positions available....
One example from Google Job Opportunities: "Quality Rater
This is a temporary assignment at Google through ABE Services.
This assignment can be located in the USA or Canada.
ABE Services is recruiting part-time remote workers to help with search quality evaluation on a project basis for Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, California. Candidates must be web-savvy and analytical, have excellent web research skills and a broad range of interests. Specific areas of expertise are highly desirable.
Participants in web evaluation projects must have a high speed internet connection. All work will be performed in the U.S. or Canada, and participants must be able to demonstrate legal eligibility to work.
In particular, applicants will be asked to draw on experience living, studying, and keeping in touch with a country's (web) culture and language. We are currently recruiting candidates with experience in the U.S. and Canada as well as candidates with experience in countries outside of the U.S. and Canada. For example, did you spend time living in Asia or Europe, move to the U.S., and continue to exist in both cultures? In addition, higher education that spans more than one country and one culture is also relevant. Please feel free to describe in your cover letter any applicable experiences.
Please ensure that your resume mentions any English or non-English language skills, for example, ENGLISH or JAPANESE or FRENCH, etc. If your language skills are English only but include relevant experience in regions outside the U.S. and Canada, you may wish to include the geographic regions of expertise (i.e. U.K., Ireland, South Africa or another English speaking country).
For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com."
The sits vac list also includes:
Testing
• Ads Quality Rater
• Ads Quality Rater - French Language
• Ads Quality Rater - German Language
• Quality Evaluation Associate/Administrator
• Quality Evaluator
• Quality Rater
• Quality Rater, Chinese Language
• Quality Rater, Dutch Language
• Quality Rater, French Language
• Quality Rater, German Language
• Quality Rater, Japanese Language
• Quality Rater, Korean Language
• Quality Rater, Italian Language
• Quality Rater, Spanish Language
• Search Quality Evaluation Research Associate
• Search Quality Evaluation Research Assistant
BTW Even Steve Rubel follows Ess to his shakey screenshot when Google jobs more or less spell out the tasks...Micro Persuasion: Bloggers Uncover Secret Google Project
Henk van Ess's Search Bistro Ess shows one way too get picked up by /. immediatly...
"It's one of the best kept secrets of Google. It's a mystery on Webmasterworld. Also in Europe (France) they don't know what to expect from that odd URL http://eval.google.com. Click it and you get ...nothing. The site reveals itself only if you have the proper login and if you use a network known by Google. Residues of Eval.google are found on the web, but the full content of the mystery site has never been published before. Here it is: the real story about Eval.Google. They use... humans!"
Whooaa,so Google employs humans for QC...stop press news! Really? I don't think so...from a selection of the current positions available....
One example from Google Job Opportunities: "Quality Rater
This is a temporary assignment at Google through ABE Services.
This assignment can be located in the USA or Canada.
ABE Services is recruiting part-time remote workers to help with search quality evaluation on a project basis for Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, California. Candidates must be web-savvy and analytical, have excellent web research skills and a broad range of interests. Specific areas of expertise are highly desirable.
Participants in web evaluation projects must have a high speed internet connection. All work will be performed in the U.S. or Canada, and participants must be able to demonstrate legal eligibility to work.
In particular, applicants will be asked to draw on experience living, studying, and keeping in touch with a country's (web) culture and language. We are currently recruiting candidates with experience in the U.S. and Canada as well as candidates with experience in countries outside of the U.S. and Canada. For example, did you spend time living in Asia or Europe, move to the U.S., and continue to exist in both cultures? In addition, higher education that spans more than one country and one culture is also relevant. Please feel free to describe in your cover letter any applicable experiences.
Please ensure that your resume mentions any English or non-English language skills, for example, ENGLISH or JAPANESE or FRENCH, etc. If your language skills are English only but include relevant experience in regions outside the U.S. and Canada, you may wish to include the geographic regions of expertise (i.e. U.K., Ireland, South Africa or another English speaking country).
For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com."
The sits vac list also includes:
Testing
• Ads Quality Rater
• Ads Quality Rater - French Language
• Ads Quality Rater - German Language
• Quality Evaluation Associate/Administrator
• Quality Evaluator
• Quality Rater
• Quality Rater, Chinese Language
• Quality Rater, Dutch Language
• Quality Rater, French Language
• Quality Rater, German Language
• Quality Rater, Japanese Language
• Quality Rater, Korean Language
• Quality Rater, Italian Language
• Quality Rater, Spanish Language
• Search Quality Evaluation Research Associate
• Search Quality Evaluation Research Assistant
BTW Even Steve Rubel follows Ess to his shakey screenshot when Google jobs more or less spell out the tasks...Micro Persuasion: Bloggers Uncover Secret Google Project
Sunday, May 29, 2005
The mania spreads....Toolbar greyed for all sites?
Up to 16 pages on Webmaster world...webmasterworld.com: "Toolbar greyed for all sites?
Google's toolbar not showing PR anymore?"
Google Search: define: mania an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
Google's toolbar not showing PR anymore?"
Google Search: define: mania an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
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