Google Job Opportunities
"Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, California, is recruiting part-time remote workers to help with search quality evaluation on a project basis. 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 applicants must be U.S. or Canada based and must have the corresponding work permit."
The above job advert provoked speculation by inlogicalbearer at searchenginewatch forum that Google is going to "add humans to algo, to track down spammers."
Dave Hawley comments: "Now I can see how Google rumours spread like Chinese Whispers"
Friday, November 26, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Net Stocks: Google sliding
Net Stocks: Google sliding as insiders sell $1 bln worth
"Google shares slid below $163 on Monday, the week after 39 million shares became available for sale, including nearly $1 billion of shares sold by venture backers."
"Google shares slid below $163 on Monday, the week after 39 million shares became available for sale, including nearly $1 billion of shares sold by venture backers."
Forbes.com: Adult Site Sues Google for Infringment
Forbes.com: Adult Site Sues Google for Infringment: "Google displays the images from rogue Web sites operated in foreign countries, according to Perfect 10's lawsuit. The search engine also provides links to password hacking sites that provide ways to gain illegal access to Perfect 10's Web site, the suit alleges.
Perfect 10 publisher Norm Zada said he is targeting Google because the company is using the allure of naked women to draw more visitors to its site and generate more advertising revenue.
He said he fears his company, which claims 100,000 unique visitors a month to its Web site, will be driven out of business unless Google is forced to stop distributing the 'free peeks.' "
Perfect 10 publisher Norm Zada said he is targeting Google because the company is using the allure of naked women to draw more visitors to its site and generate more advertising revenue.
He said he fears his company, which claims 100,000 unique visitors a month to its Web site, will be driven out of business unless Google is forced to stop distributing the 'free peeks.' "
Monday, November 22, 2004
Google Muscles Into Microsoft's Turf
Forbes.com
"Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, said the company's goal is to organize information and make it universally accessible, and that goes far beyond search. "
Web search isn't the only place where Microsoft is playing catch-up:
Internet browser toolbar that blocks pop-up ads and enables search launched years after Google had created its own.
And after Google announced plans for Gmail Microsoft said it would boost free memory on its Hotmail accounts no details yet.
Microsoft also has promised its own system for searching desktop computers...Google launched its desktop search product last month and said users should expect more improvements to that product.
Ad delivery, where Microsoft recently extended through June 2006 a contract for Yahoo Inc./ Overture paid ads... Ad placement alongside search results is Google's main cash cow...
David Smith, a vice president with Gartner Inc., says the chain of events illustrates that Google is proving to be customer-driven while Microsoft tends to be more driven by competitive threats.
Google opened an office in Kirkland, not far from Microsoft's Redmond campus...
"Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, said the company's goal is to organize information and make it universally accessible, and that goes far beyond search. "
Web search isn't the only place where Microsoft is playing catch-up:
Internet browser toolbar that blocks pop-up ads and enables search launched years after Google had created its own.
And after Google announced plans for Gmail Microsoft said it would boost free memory on its Hotmail accounts no details yet.
Microsoft also has promised its own system for searching desktop computers...Google launched its desktop search product last month and said users should expect more improvements to that product.
Ad delivery, where Microsoft recently extended through June 2006 a contract for Yahoo Inc./ Overture paid ads... Ad placement alongside search results is Google's main cash cow...
David Smith, a vice president with Gartner Inc., says the chain of events illustrates that Google is proving to be customer-driven while Microsoft tends to be more driven by competitive threats.
Google opened an office in Kirkland, not far from Microsoft's Redmond campus...
Friday, November 19, 2004
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Forbes.com: : Google Shares Fall
Forbes.com:
"Shares of Google Inc. slipped Thursday after the world's most popular Internet search engine warned for the second time in a week that its fourth-quarter revenue growth rate is likely to slow from previous quarters"
"Shares of Google Inc. slipped Thursday after the world's most popular Internet search engine warned for the second time in a week that its fourth-quarter revenue growth rate is likely to slow from previous quarters"
Google launches search for scholars | CNET News.com
Could this be the first big move to separate "pure/ academic" search from the commercially tainted version?
Google launches search for scholars | CNET News.com: "Google on Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, a new search product aimed at helping users search scholarly literature such as technical reports, theses and abstracts. "
It will have specially tailored search algorithms according to Anurag Acharya, a principal engineer at Google
It will not initially carry Web search advertisements although "web search advertising accounts for almost all of Google's revenue, which was $805.9 million in the third quarter."
The New York Times: reports that the service "is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. "
NY Times quotes Mr. Acharya as saying " his motivation, in part, had been a desire to help the academic community from which Google emerged...Google as a company has greatly benefited from academic research and this is one of the ways we can give back to the community."
Danny Sullivan, SearchWatchEngine editor, comments that Google was certain to have competition soon from Yahoo and others."We will continue to see an explosion of vertical search engines like this," he said of search services that focus on special collections."
Google launches search for scholars | CNET News.com: "Google on Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, a new search product aimed at helping users search scholarly literature such as technical reports, theses and abstracts. "
It will have specially tailored search algorithms according to Anurag Acharya, a principal engineer at Google
It will not initially carry Web search advertisements although "web search advertising accounts for almost all of Google's revenue, which was $805.9 million in the third quarter."
The New York Times: reports that the service "is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. "
NY Times quotes Mr. Acharya as saying " his motivation, in part, had been a desire to help the academic community from which Google emerged...Google as a company has greatly benefited from academic research and this is one of the ways we can give back to the community."
Danny Sullivan, SearchWatchEngine editor, comments that Google was certain to have competition soon from Yahoo and others."We will continue to see an explosion of vertical search engines like this," he said of search services that focus on special collections."
Google launches Keyhole : Next Generation Mapping
Keyhole "technology enables you to point and fly to hundreds of US and international cities. Zoom down to detail showing individual buildings, search for existing businesses by name or category, even fly to a specific address... can easily import lists of buildings, overlays showing demographic trends, proposed developments, and even site plans. The powerful XML-based collaboration capability in Keyhole 2 allows you to share lists of locations, with custom icons and detailed descriptions, with a single click. Keyhole’s streaming technology does the heavy lifting, putting your data in the context of detailed imagery, 3D terrain, and map data."
Google keeping quiet about any plans for integrating Keyhole: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Keyhole's technology and products are an excellent addition to our efforts to do that. We do not have any announced plans regarding how this technology will integrate with our current products and services..." local search is my tip....
Google keeping quiet about any plans for integrating Keyhole: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Keyhole's technology and products are an excellent addition to our efforts to do that. We do not have any announced plans regarding how this technology will integrate with our current products and services..." local search is my tip....
Monday, November 15, 2004
Google Desktop Security Warning Issued
Businesses need policies re desktop search tools: "Two analysts issued independent warnings today suggesting Google's Desktop Search tool -- released in October -- poses security risks for the enterprise. "
Dana Hendrickson, an analyst at VPN Central warns "The most significant threat is when desktop search is used while connected to a virtual private network (VPN)"
Meta Group analyst "Hickernell told internetnews.com that the desktop will be the next battlefront in the search engine wars -- and a new front in the battle for corporate security. Google Desktop Search lets users search documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, instant messages and Web pages that have been visited by that PC. To enable this, it creates cached versions of Web content -- which could include sensitive corporate information stored on servers and accessed via a Web interface.
Dana Hendrickson, an analyst at VPN Central warns "The most significant threat is when desktop search is used while connected to a virtual private network (VPN)"
Meta Group analyst "Hickernell told internetnews.com that the desktop will be the next battlefront in the search engine wars -- and a new front in the battle for corporate security. Google Desktop Search lets users search documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, instant messages and Web pages that have been visited by that PC. To enable this, it creates cached versions of Web content -- which could include sensitive corporate information stored on servers and accessed via a Web interface.
Friday, November 12, 2004
Google Blog
Google Blog: "The documents in Google's index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world's information, but hardly all of it. That's why we keep building more advanced systems for crawling the web and creating more sophisticated indices to sort what we find. So 8 billion pages is a milestone worth noting, but it's not the end of the road. The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We'll keep improving that too. "
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis
eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "According to ClickZ News, Google has published its much-anticipated AdWords content policy. The policy outlines what is acceptable in its text advertisements and what is unacceptable"
Getting to Know Gmail
Getting to Know Gmail: "EmailLabs estimates that between 1.5 million and 2 million people are now registered Gmail users, and projects that this base could grow to between 5 million and 10 million over the next year. "
Affiliate sites in Google: thread & A study of host pairs with replicated content
Anyone besides me not swallowed the "Hilltop" magic pill yet?: Posred by "caveman Nov 4, 2004 (utc 0) WRT Hilltop, there are two differnet areas of assessment that we have paid a lot of attention to:
1) affiliation, and its consequences
2) themed links, and their consequences
Tested: "One thing we did was to identify a pair of very similar sites in different categories. The sites were deemed similar by virtue of size, construction, PR, linking patterns, and performance in the SERP's. Call them site A and site B.
For site A we went and got 20 good backlinks (PR 6-7) from non-affiliated sites, in categories unrelated to site A's category. No help; the site stayed buried.
For site B we went and got 8 good backlinks (PR 5-7) from closely related sites (two hubs, six authority). Within four weeks site B had popped back to its former glory while most webmasters in the immediate post Florida environment were still bemoaning the disappearance of their sites...
caveman concludes: "post Florida the URL's were typically associated with authority sites. Before Florida, when we saw that, the URL's more typically reflected high PR pages. The assumption here is that a really important backlink is displayed, but that seems a good assumption to me.
On a related note, though I can't call this technically Hilltop, we have virtual certainty that links from unaffiliated, relevant pages that are tightly connected to our own topics perform better than identical links from unrelated pages, for certain kw searches"
Caveman later posts: "The way I read it, the Hilltop/LocalRank "affiliate" filter is quite subtle... ...would need a pretty heavily cross/interlinked domain farm targeting a single category with relatively few "outside" links for a dramatic drop in the SERPs.
ciml; "Monika Henzinger co-wrote an interesting paper on affiliation detection " A study of host pairs with replicated content
we define two hosts to be mirrors if:
The paper proceeds as follows: in Section 2 we establish a classification of mirroring; Section 3 describes our approach to detecting and classifying mirrored hosts; Section 4 presents data from our experiment; Section 5 discusses motives for mirroring; Section 6 presents other applications of this technique; Section 7 mentions related work and in Section 8 we draw some conclusions.
A high percentage of paths (that is, the portions of the URL after the hostname) are valid on both web sites, and These common paths link to documents that have similar content. Therefore, hosts that replicate content but rename paths are not considered mirrors under our definition
1) affiliation, and its consequences
2) themed links, and their consequences
Tested: "One thing we did was to identify a pair of very similar sites in different categories. The sites were deemed similar by virtue of size, construction, PR, linking patterns, and performance in the SERP's. Call them site A and site B.
For site A we went and got 20 good backlinks (PR 6-7) from non-affiliated sites, in categories unrelated to site A's category. No help; the site stayed buried.
For site B we went and got 8 good backlinks (PR 5-7) from closely related sites (two hubs, six authority). Within four weeks site B had popped back to its former glory while most webmasters in the immediate post Florida environment were still bemoaning the disappearance of their sites...
caveman concludes: "post Florida the URL's were typically associated with authority sites. Before Florida, when we saw that, the URL's more typically reflected high PR pages. The assumption here is that a really important backlink is displayed, but that seems a good assumption to me.
On a related note, though I can't call this technically Hilltop, we have virtual certainty that links from unaffiliated, relevant pages that are tightly connected to our own topics perform better than identical links from unrelated pages, for certain kw searches"
Caveman later posts: "The way I read it, the Hilltop/LocalRank "affiliate" filter is quite subtle... ...would need a pretty heavily cross/interlinked domain farm targeting a single category with relatively few "outside" links for a dramatic drop in the SERPs.
ciml; "Monika Henzinger co-wrote an interesting paper on affiliation detection " A study of host pairs with replicated content
we define two hosts to be mirrors if:
The paper proceeds as follows: in Section 2 we establish a classification of mirroring; Section 3 describes our approach to detecting and classifying mirrored hosts; Section 4 presents data from our experiment; Section 5 discusses motives for mirroring; Section 6 presents other applications of this technique; Section 7 mentions related work and in Section 8 we draw some conclusions.
A high percentage of paths (that is, the portions of the URL after the hostname) are valid on both web sites, and These common paths link to documents that have similar content. Therefore, hosts that replicate content but rename paths are not considered mirrors under our definition
Get Banned Fast: mildly amusing thread
Get Banned Fast: ". take a domain with already an established PR
2. name it google"
2. name it google"
Monday, November 08, 2004
Slashdot | Google Image Index Just Not Updated
Slashdot | Google Image Index Just Not Updated: "We ran a story earlier today about the lack of Abu Ghraib photos in Google's image index. We now have a response from Google stating that the image index simply hasn't been updated recently, as well as a fairly convincing demonstration from a Slashdot reader"
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
: Google Help Central : OPERATOR EXAMPLES
Google Help Central: "Google Help : Cheat Sheet : OPERATOR EXAMPLES"
New Adwords Features - Tools and Reporting - New AdWords Classifications
New Adwords Features - Tools and Reporting: "updates to features and functionality of Adwords interfaces"
stuntdubl started thread: Adwords advisor says: I want to affirm that most changes to the AdWords system are a direct result of Advertiser feedback - and that the suggestions from WebmasterWorld are a huge part of that.
Feedback is also collected from email and phone conversations as well, of course. But I'm not kidding when I say I'll forward suggestions from this Forum each week. Yesterday, for example, I sent roughly 7 pages along to a really big list of folks who actually read it. At least a couple of those pages were from right here. So, many thanks to the Forum for the continued feedback - whether it is postive, or not so pretty.
New AdWords Classifications Coming
AussieWebmaster reports: Sometime in November Google is revamping the classification of keyword status... Strong, Moderate, At Risk and Disabled will be gone. Replacing them will be Active and Disabled, as well as "In Trial".
In Trail has been delivered to meet the problem of quick disabling of terms. Google will use its predictive modelling to know what words are not going to do well and give them more time to run. Instead of the 1,000 impressions and you're out... this new system may allow terms as much as 10 times more access to eyeballs.
stuntdubl started thread: Adwords advisor says: I want to affirm that most changes to the AdWords system are a direct result of Advertiser feedback - and that the suggestions from WebmasterWorld are a huge part of that.
Feedback is also collected from email and phone conversations as well, of course. But I'm not kidding when I say I'll forward suggestions from this Forum each week. Yesterday, for example, I sent roughly 7 pages along to a really big list of folks who actually read it. At least a couple of those pages were from right here. So, many thanks to the Forum for the continued feedback - whether it is postive, or not so pretty.
New AdWords Classifications Coming
AussieWebmaster reports: Sometime in November Google is revamping the classification of keyword status... Strong, Moderate, At Risk and Disabled will be gone. Replacing them will be Active and Disabled, as well as "In Trial".
In Trail has been delivered to meet the problem of quick disabling of terms. Google will use its predictive modelling to know what words are not going to do well and give them more time to run. Instead of the 1,000 impressions and you're out... this new system may allow terms as much as 10 times more access to eyeballs.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Firefox Browser Targets Microsoft
Firefox Browser Targets Microsoft: "an article by Mozilla News revealed that a Google-branded Firefox browser may be in the cards. "
MozillaNews - Google's Browser Plans
MozillaNews - Google's Browser Plans
Google plans desktop search tool for Apple PCs | CNET News.com
Google plans desktop search tool for Apple PCs | CNET News.com: "Google plans to release a version of its desktop search tool for computers that run Apple Computer's Mac operating system,"
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