Netimperative - Google updates indexing service for webmasters Netimperative - Google updates indexing service for webmasters: "Google has launched ten new interface languages for its Sitemaps service, which lets webmasters to submit their web pages, including those designed specifically for mobile devices, for inclusion in Google's index.
Launched in the US earlier this year, the beta-test program has been extended to work in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese...
Webmasters can sign up for the program at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps. They then generate and submit an XML formatted site list. This file can be created using the Sitemap Generator, a free open source tool that generates an XML sitemap for most websites.
Webmasters do not need a Google account to generate and submit sitemaps. However, if they do sign up they can log in to check the status of their sitemaps and view diagnostic information for their submissions.
Google said the program is intended to enhance, rather than replace, the crawl technology it currently uses to discover web content.
The firm added that using Google Sitemaps neither guarantees that a site will be included in the index nor will it have any effect on how sites are ranked on Google Search results pages."
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
Update 1: Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Joins Google - Forbes.com
Update 1: Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Joins Google - Forbes.com: "Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to float more ideas and develop new products, adding another weapon to the online search engine leader's rapidly growing arsenal of intellect.
Cerf's defection from MCI Inc., announced Thursday, represents the latest coup for Mountain View-based Google, which has been amassing more brainpower as its payroll nearly quadrupled to 4,200 workers during the past two years...
In an interview, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said few of the company's recent hires have been as significant as Cerf, widely regarded as one of the Internet's creators because of his seminal work developing the network's essential communications protocols, TCP/IP, at Stanford University in the 1970s.
"He is one of the most important people alive today," said Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."
When he starts work at Google on Oct. 3, Cerf's official title will be "chief Internet evangelist," but he is determined to be more than a figurehead or detached visionary...
Cerf expects to spend much of his time developing new applications as Google continues to supplement the search engine that is core to the 7-year-old company. In recent years, it has released free software to organize computer files, sort digital photos, generate maps and conduct Internet-based phone calls and text chats. It also launched a Web-based e-mail service called Gmail.
"What Google has really been doing is building an entirely new (computing) infrastructure and whenever you do that, it creates opportunities for new applications," Cerf said.
Cerf will be a graybeard in Google's youthful culture, which has been shaped by the company's 32-year-old founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But Cerf doesn't expect to have trouble fitting in, even though his penchant for wearing three-piece suits also figures to set him apart in Google's jeans-clad atmosphere.
"I'm 62 going on 12 anyway," Cerf said. "What's wonderful about (Google) is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on."
Although he will report to Google engineering chief Alan Eustace in Mountain View, Cerf won't be based in Silicon Valley. He will be working out of a Virginia office so he can stay close to his home."
Cerf's defection from MCI Inc., announced Thursday, represents the latest coup for Mountain View-based Google, which has been amassing more brainpower as its payroll nearly quadrupled to 4,200 workers during the past two years...
In an interview, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said few of the company's recent hires have been as significant as Cerf, widely regarded as one of the Internet's creators because of his seminal work developing the network's essential communications protocols, TCP/IP, at Stanford University in the 1970s.
"He is one of the most important people alive today," said Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."
When he starts work at Google on Oct. 3, Cerf's official title will be "chief Internet evangelist," but he is determined to be more than a figurehead or detached visionary...
Cerf expects to spend much of his time developing new applications as Google continues to supplement the search engine that is core to the 7-year-old company. In recent years, it has released free software to organize computer files, sort digital photos, generate maps and conduct Internet-based phone calls and text chats. It also launched a Web-based e-mail service called Gmail.
"What Google has really been doing is building an entirely new (computing) infrastructure and whenever you do that, it creates opportunities for new applications," Cerf said.
Cerf will be a graybeard in Google's youthful culture, which has been shaped by the company's 32-year-old founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But Cerf doesn't expect to have trouble fitting in, even though his penchant for wearing three-piece suits also figures to set him apart in Google's jeans-clad atmosphere.
"I'm 62 going on 12 anyway," Cerf said. "What's wonderful about (Google) is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on."
Although he will report to Google engineering chief Alan Eustace in Mountain View, Cerf won't be based in Silicon Valley. He will be working out of a Virginia office so he can stay close to his home."
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Google sees $4.1 billion net from stock offer
Google sees $4.1 billion net from stock offer | CNET News.com: "Google on Thursday said it expects $4.11 billion in net proceeds from its shelf offering of 14.16 million Class A shares.
The Internet search-engine giant said in a regulatory filing that the funds will go toward general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures, and acquisitions of complementary business, technologies or other assets. The company gave no details.
'We have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions,' the filing said."
The Internet search-engine giant said in a regulatory filing that the funds will go toward general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures, and acquisitions of complementary business, technologies or other assets. The company gave no details.
'We have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions,' the filing said."
Geico, Google settle lawsuit
Geico, Google settle lawsuit | CNET News.com: "Google and auto insurer GEICO have resolved a high-profile trademark infringement case filed by GEICO against Google over its online advertising practices, the auto insurer said Wednesday...
GEICO, the fourth largest U.S. auto insurer and a unit of investor Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, said its suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia "has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties."
The lawsuit, originally filed in May 2004, had sought to hold Google responsible for trademark infringement for displaying advertising paid for by rival insurers when computer users searched for the word "GEICO" on the Google system.
Terms of the settlement are confidential, Geico said. No further comment on the settlement will be provided, it said. A Google spokesman was not immediately available to comment. "
GEICO, the fourth largest U.S. auto insurer and a unit of investor Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, said its suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia "has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties."
The lawsuit, originally filed in May 2004, had sought to hold Google responsible for trademark infringement for displaying advertising paid for by rival insurers when computer users searched for the word "GEICO" on the Google system.
Terms of the settlement are confidential, Geico said. No further comment on the settlement will be provided, it said. A Google spokesman was not immediately available to comment. "
Adsense Chat - Adsense Additions Create Opportunities
Adsense Chat - Adsense Additions Create Opportunities: "One of the great things about Adsense is that it changes all the time. Google is always introducing new tools and tinkering with its policies. That’s why it doesn’t matter how well you’ve set up your traffic sources or how impressive your CTR is right now, you always have to check the Adsense site and stay up to date with what’s happening.
Fail to stay on the ball and you could find that your top technique could suddenly get you banned or that you’re missing out on an opportunity to massively boost your revenues...
In fact, at the end of August, Google announced some more changes to its policies. (I say “announced,” but if you weren’t regularly checking the Adsense policies page or following Adsense news, you wouldn’t have known a thing about it.)
The first change is that you can now put ad units on your error, login, registration, thank you and welcome pages. That’s a huge difference...
The second change is even bigger. Google have now introduced a Top Queries tool that lets you see the most popular 25 keywords that people enter into your Adsense search box."
Fail to stay on the ball and you could find that your top technique could suddenly get you banned or that you’re missing out on an opportunity to massively boost your revenues...
In fact, at the end of August, Google announced some more changes to its policies. (I say “announced,” but if you weren’t regularly checking the Adsense policies page or following Adsense news, you wouldn’t have known a thing about it.)
The first change is that you can now put ad units on your error, login, registration, thank you and welcome pages. That’s a huge difference...
The second change is even bigger. Google have now introduced a Top Queries tool that lets you see the most popular 25 keywords that people enter into your Adsense search box."
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Job Posting Foreshadows Google Wallet -
MediaPost Publications - Job Posting Foreshadows Google Wallet - 09/07/2005: "AN ONLINE JOB AD FOR a position at Google as a 'fraud operations director, merchant payment solution,' has fueled renewed speculation about whether the company intends to soon introduce a new electronic payment system, rumored to be called 'Google Wallet.' "
Google May Yell For British Company
Google May Yell For British Company: "Chapter 327 of "What's Google Going To Do With The Money" says British yellow page company The Yell Group will be the next Google acquisition. A Dow Jones report on the rumors over Google purchasing UK-Based Yell Group sees the potential bid as "plausible." The report quotes Numis Securities on that assessment: "Google is a company with a market capitalization bigger than General Motors and they may well want to use some of that firepower to diversify into new areas. A natural one would be directories."
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Monday, September 05, 2005
Microsoft, Google Trade Salvos Over Exec
Microsoft, Google Trade Salvos Over Exec - Forbes.com: "Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive 'like wolves,' according to documents filed Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals...
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Associated Press
Microsoft, Google Trade Salvos Over Exec
09.02.2005, 06:36 PM
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive "like wolves," according to documents filed Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
The allegations, filed in a Washington state court, represent the latest salvos in a showdown triggered by Google's July hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai Fu-Lee to oversee a research and development center that Google plans to open in China. Lee started at Google the day after he resigned from Microsoft.
The tug-of-war over Lee - known for his work on computer recognition of language - has exposed the behind-the-scenes animosity that has been brewing between two of high-tech's best-known companies.
Ballmer's threat last November was recounted in a sworn declaration by a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, who said he met with Microsoft's chief executive 10 months ago to discuss his decision to leave the company after six years.
After learning Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.
Ballmer then pejoratively berated Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lucovsky recalled.
"I'm going to f------ bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," the declaration quotes Ballmer. "I'm going to f------ kill Google."
Before joining Google, Schmidt was a top executive at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Novell Inc., a pair of tech companies that Microsoft has previously battled...
Before resigning from Microsoft, Lee began to help Google plot its China strategy with a series of suggestions, including recommending possible sites for the new office, according to Microsoft's brief.
Microsoft alleged Lee's insights helped him win a Google contract worth more than $10 million - a package that Google itself described as "unprecedented" for the company.
Google paid Lee a $2.5 million signing bonus and promised a $1.5 million bonus after one year, plus a $250,000 salary and options on 10,000 shares of Google stock, according to court documents. If he stays for four years, Lee also will receive another 20,000 Google shares, currently worth $5.8 million.
Lee also demanded that Google pay all his legal fees if Microsoft sued, a request that was granted."
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Associated Press
Microsoft, Google Trade Salvos Over Exec
09.02.2005, 06:36 PM
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive "like wolves," according to documents filed Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
The allegations, filed in a Washington state court, represent the latest salvos in a showdown triggered by Google's July hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai Fu-Lee to oversee a research and development center that Google plans to open in China. Lee started at Google the day after he resigned from Microsoft.
The tug-of-war over Lee - known for his work on computer recognition of language - has exposed the behind-the-scenes animosity that has been brewing between two of high-tech's best-known companies.
Ballmer's threat last November was recounted in a sworn declaration by a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, who said he met with Microsoft's chief executive 10 months ago to discuss his decision to leave the company after six years.
After learning Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.
Ballmer then pejoratively berated Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lucovsky recalled.
"I'm going to f------ bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," the declaration quotes Ballmer. "I'm going to f------ kill Google."
Before joining Google, Schmidt was a top executive at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Novell Inc., a pair of tech companies that Microsoft has previously battled...
Before resigning from Microsoft, Lee began to help Google plot its China strategy with a series of suggestions, including recommending possible sites for the new office, according to Microsoft's brief.
Microsoft alleged Lee's insights helped him win a Google contract worth more than $10 million - a package that Google itself described as "unprecedented" for the company.
Google paid Lee a $2.5 million signing bonus and promised a $1.5 million bonus after one year, plus a $250,000 salary and options on 10,000 shares of Google stock, according to court documents. If he stays for four years, Lee also will receive another 20,000 Google shares, currently worth $5.8 million.
Lee also demanded that Google pay all his legal fees if Microsoft sued, a request that was granted."
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index
The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to 'organize the world's information,' announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index. " (joke...)
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