Instant translation on IM
Instant messaging is great, unlike email if both parties are online at the time they can communicate in almost real time effect, but what about if the person that you are speaking to does not read or write in the same language as you, this could make things difficult is not impossible making it impractical [...]
December 12, 2007You Tube expands its profit sharing
The reward for placing a video on You Tube is going to be more than just becoming famous, from now on video creators will be able to earn money too.
You Tube will be paying a share of the advertising revenue earned, user will be able to decide which of their videos will have the ads [...]
The problem with Gmail is:
There is a problem with gmail, and that is you cannot have a gmail account or your account gets cancelled which is causing some people so many problems to the point where they cannot even access their own emails, which could relate to jobs etc.
However this is fortunately an error, I say fortunately because that [...]
Google now has “Body Search”
This is one is on the debatable side of search, it is supposed to bring together people in a very strange way, like the “Match my Organ” this needs little explanation expect that it has nothing to do with musical instruments!
On a positive note, there will be 3D images of the human body which relate [...]
Google still number one for webmasters
Despite all of the ups and downs with Google, the most famous search engine in the world is still the number one choice for webmasters; they build, and market their websites with Google in mind, while disregarding the rest of the search engines.
The simple question to ask is why? And the answer is as equally [...]
What is great content?
There is a path to follow that will make your website show up in a great place on the search engines results for your desired keywords etc, but in order to get there, it is necessary to make the site conform to certain parameters in order to tick all of the search engine boxes, but [...]
November 14, 2007Go Daddy integrates Google tools
The domain and hosting company Go Daddy will be piloting a new type of service which will see users being able to integrate the Google Webmaster Tools service directly without any need to download or install themselves.
The idea is that this will not only save users time and hassle in integrating the service into their [...]
Googles games means advertising heaven
Webmasters of games and other related sites may find that Google will have some great advertising opportunities soon with the purchase of the ad firm Adspace who place in game adverts; this is a serious advertising opportunity as the ads can be placed to appeal to certain groups of people depending on what the game [...]
November 9, 2007Traffic from search engines
The very first thing that needs to be done is submit your site to the search engines. Sure you can wait for the site to be spidered, but why wait, time is money and you are in business. You can add you site to any search engine that you want, but make sure that it [...]
November 1, 2007Google puts price on results
The French based blog, Zorgloob has discovered what the Google guys see when they do a search. The results returned are as normal except for the slight difference of a dollar value placed at the end of the listing.
The figures are said to be related to Adsense, but these figures also turn up in the [...]
TV Links shut down
Some people may be familiar the UK based website TV Links, it was a great site that provided links to thousands of music tracks, TV shows, documentaries, films, and music videos, some of these are from Google and You Tube, I say was because the site is no more.
Apparently the site has been closed down [...]
Google helps manage site links
A site is what appears on a search, you may have seen them. They offer the searcher to go directly to a certain page on your site. But sometimes this is not what you want, because you need your visitors to look through your site, not go directly to one page and then disappear.
Well you [...]
How many Subscribers in a Feed?
This has become a hot topic, you would only need to read the comments to the posting on Google System to how there are those for Google and those against, which is how it should be. However in this case it’s about finding out how many subscribers there are on certain website feeds. This is [...]
October 16, 2007Is Google a Friend or Foe?
It depends on your stand point. You have to sit back in admiration on what they have done, but where they are going is a completely different matter. You have to remember though that Google is not the same company as it used to be, they are now a money making machine and in order [...]
October 5, 2007Page Rank to be Retired
Could it be possible that Google are thinking of or may have already decided to retire the famous Page Rank? The rumours as you would expect are full of what could happen and what may happen.
It seems to be certain that they will be removing the Page Rank from the Google Tool Bar; this may [...]
Googles birthday goes unnoticed
It was Googles birthday the other day, nine years they have been around and it has only been the last couple years that they have actually been trying to take over the world!
The only indication of the celebration was the Google logo had one of their little letter changes, it was the forth “G” that [...]
Google to restart penalty notifications
It always used to be the way that Google would email webmasters if they had any reason to believe that their site was not up to the standard or that they were in violation of the Google high command guidelines.
But a few months ago these were stopped because they were being copied and sent on [...]
Google in the bad books
For many webmasters the prospect of being on page one or have a brilliant page rank or if they are really lucky both on Google has always been top priority. But in contrast to the years gone by, it would appear that webmasters are not very pleased about the changes in search results.
The fact is [...]
Webmasters get RSS stats from Google
There’s another reason for using Googles webmaster central service, because it has emerged that there is the facility that will allows users to find out exactly how many people are subscribed to their RSS feeds.
This information can be very useful indeed, because being able to see how the subscriber list is growing or in some [...]
Is Google penalising paid links?
It would appear that over the past couple of months, Google have been putting it around that they frown upon some paid links and those sites who do not take any notice, would suffer the consequences.
It is possible that site owners who buy links may be putting their creditability at risk, as well as the [...]