See Google's Redesign Experiment
I cannot get it to load but the screenshots show the new layout...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Google employees' wireless patents published | CNET News.com
Three new patents from Google signal their move into advertising in the wireless market..
Google employees' wireless patents published | CNET News.com: "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published three wireless-related patents filed by Google employees as the search giant seeks to delve deeper into the wireless market.
The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service....
Patent application No. 20060058019 seeks to develop a system for dynamically modifying the appearance of browser screens on a client device when connecting to a wireless access point. Under the patent, the browser's appearance would be modified to reflect the brand associated with the wireless access-point provider...
No. 20060059044 and No. 20060059043, cover ads based on wireless access points and wireless access at a reduced rate, respectively."
Google employees' wireless patents published | CNET News.com: "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published three wireless-related patents filed by Google employees as the search giant seeks to delve deeper into the wireless market.
The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service....
Patent application No. 20060058019 seeks to develop a system for dynamically modifying the appearance of browser screens on a client device when connecting to a wireless access point. Under the patent, the browser's appearance would be modified to reflect the brand associated with the wireless access-point provider...
No. 20060059044 and No. 20060059043, cover ads based on wireless access points and wireless access at a reduced rate, respectively."
In another privacy flap, Google email riles spam fighters - MarketWatch
If your gmail is not being delivered this could explain why.....In another privacy flap, Google email riles spam fighters - MarketWatch:
"The problems experienced by Schwingel and possibly thousands of other Gmail users are a consequence of Google's sometimes-hawkish policy on privacy. In an unusual practice, Google makes Gmail users virtually anonymous. That's led some spam blockers to occasionally blacklist entire Gmail servers, the massive Google computers that hold many Gmail accounts, because they can't separate the spammers from the legitimate emailers.
Some publicly available black lists, including the widely used Spamhaus list, have a hands-off approach to Gmail to avoid blocking legitimate email. Others, most notably IronPort Systems Inc.'s SpamCop, aren't willing to give Gmail a free pass.
"Gmail has taken an extreme position on privacy that inhibits the antispam community from doing their job, and it's ticking people off," says Tom Gilles, co-founder of IronPort...
....assessing reputation, which requires knowing a senders' identity, is now at the cutting edge of antispam technology. Black lists, which are rosters of spammer IP addresses, are used by many organizations as a first line of defense, though experts stress they should be used with care to avoid blocking legitimate email.
Google's strategy seems to be to attain both reliability and privacy for its email service through the sheer force of its engineering prowess, rather than by hewing to the informal protocols of the Internet community...
Gilles of IronPort says Gmail servers only land on the SpamCop list "every few months," and that Google is good at keeping spammers out of its system and at fixing any problems so its servers are delisted."
"The problems experienced by Schwingel and possibly thousands of other Gmail users are a consequence of Google's sometimes-hawkish policy on privacy. In an unusual practice, Google makes Gmail users virtually anonymous. That's led some spam blockers to occasionally blacklist entire Gmail servers, the massive Google computers that hold many Gmail accounts, because they can't separate the spammers from the legitimate emailers.
Some publicly available black lists, including the widely used Spamhaus list, have a hands-off approach to Gmail to avoid blocking legitimate email. Others, most notably IronPort Systems Inc.'s SpamCop, aren't willing to give Gmail a free pass.
"Gmail has taken an extreme position on privacy that inhibits the antispam community from doing their job, and it's ticking people off," says Tom Gilles, co-founder of IronPort...
....assessing reputation, which requires knowing a senders' identity, is now at the cutting edge of antispam technology. Black lists, which are rosters of spammer IP addresses, are used by many organizations as a first line of defense, though experts stress they should be used with care to avoid blocking legitimate email.
Google's strategy seems to be to attain both reliability and privacy for its email service through the sheer force of its engineering prowess, rather than by hewing to the informal protocols of the Internet community...
Gilles of IronPort says Gmail servers only land on the SpamCop list "every few months," and that Google is good at keeping spammers out of its system and at fixing any problems so its servers are delisted."
Monday, March 27, 2006
Google specific robots.txt
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO � 2006 � March: "one more way to block Googlebot by using wildcards in robots.txt (Google supports wildcards like �*� in robots.txt). Here�s how:
1. Add the parameter like �http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/some-random-post.html?googlebot=nocrawl� to pages that you don�t want fetched by Googlebot.
2. Add the following to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: *googlebot=nocrawl
That�s it. We may see links to the pages with the nocrawl parameter, but we won�t crawl them. At most, we would show the url reference (the uncrawled link), but we wouldn�t ever fetch the page."
1. Add the parameter like �http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/some-random-post.html?googlebot=nocrawl� to pages that you don�t want fetched by Googlebot.
2. Add the following to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: *googlebot=nocrawl
That�s it. We may see links to the pages with the nocrawl parameter, but we won�t crawl them. At most, we would show the url reference (the uncrawled link), but we wouldn�t ever fetch the page."
Matt Cutts: Big Daddy Update
I Must monitor the search results to see how my site is doing...Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO � 2006 � March: "We�re down to just 1-2 data centers left in the switchover to Bigdaddy. It�s possible that the Bigdaddy switchover will be complete in the next week or two. Just as a reminder, Bigdaddy is a software upgrade to Google�s infrastructure that provides the framework for a lot of improvements to core search quality in the coming months (smarter redirect handling, improved canonicalization, etc.)."
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