Yahoo Index Size : 25 to 35% bigger than Google

That statement make me laugh !
How to find the real size of the index of a search engine ? Don't try, it's impossible !
The best way to figure out is to use a word who will give you less than a thousand results, because you never can see more than a thousand in SERPs.

Let see what we got here with a word with less than 1,000 SERPs:

Bleuetiers (Blueberries plants in french)
Google : First digits on Bleuetiers:

Web	Results 1 - 84 of about 441 for bleuetiers. (0.99 seconds)

441 ? Wow ! Let see what will got really by clicking on :
repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Web	Results 1 - 100 of about 405 for bleuetiers. (0.19 seconds)

405 ? Not bad ! Well, let see the last page of results with a click on the last page here :

Result Page:

1

2

3

4

Next

Oups :

Web	Results 101 - 182 of about 200 for bleuetiers. (0.25 seconds)

Now we got the real number of 182 results

Same exercice with Yahoo

Results 1 - 77 of about 244 for bleuetiers - 0.05 sec. (About this page)

244 results or 77 ? Let see with a click on :
repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Results 1 - 100 of about 925 for bleuetiers - 0.07 sec. (About this page)
Now 925 results ??? A weird glitch here !

Let see with a click on page 10 !

Results Page:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next

Results 201 - 234 of about 234 for bleuetiers - 0.03 sec. (About this page)

234 results is the real digit. That 50 more than Google and with that we can saw that Yahoo have around 25% more results than Google for the first time.

Second try with "st-joseph-de-la-rive" (a small town of Quebec province)

First estimation for Google : 811 results

Real digit for Google : 384 results

Web	Results 301 - 384 of about 809 for "st-joseph-de-la-rive". (0.39 seconds)

First estimation for Yahoo : 6,010 results

Real digit for Yahoo :484 results

Results 401 - 484 of about 1,710 for "st-joseph-de-la-rive" - 0.05 sec. (About this page)

100 more results for Yahoo who give us again about 25% more results.

Third try with "ste-catherine-de-la-jacques-cartier"

First estimation for Google : 3,980 results

Real digit for Google : 387 results

Results 301 - 387 of about 3,970 for "ste-catherine-de-la-jacques-cartier". (0.20 seconds)

First estimation for Yahoo : 5,880 results

Real digit for Yahoo : 556 results

Results 501 - 556 of about 1,490 for "ste-catherine-de-la-jacques-cartier" - 0.58 sec.

Again 169 more pages for Yahoo !

Google Recent Backlashes

The first one is the CNET blacklisted for one year for that article. On one face I approve that decision, because Elinor Mills don't have to put the Schmidt's wife and the location of their house in the article. Schmidt is a public guy who manage the company and the main tool used to gather the personal information for that paper, but not his wife and/or their family neighbourhood. For the other stuff in the paper, Mr. Mills should not be blame for thoses.

The second one is the lawsuit against Google last week. I don't like to see Stern in this, but at fisrt thought I agree that lawsuit. Specially when your add this in the balance !

Less overlap between search engine results

Nice paper on the SERPs on the GYMA (Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask) search engine.

SEW, SES and Clickz to be sold

Wow ! A big move for Jupiter Media who will focus more on JupiterImages. The Search Engine Strategies are included in the deal. Good luck to Danny and Gary.

Tags: SEW , Search Engine Strategies , Jupiter, Clickz

I'm Feeling Thirsty

Droogle.ca is the place!

Google and the RSS patent : Evil way

Nice resume about Google who had filed a patent around RSS advertising. Note that Google add finally an RSS feed to one of it's page site almost two years after this filing !?! Beurk!

Tags: RSS patent , evil , google

The beginning of Google

Nice article by Battelle in Wired.

Tags: Google , History

New Media Placement

With the new satellites and aerial images of Google Maps, Google Earth, and MSN Virtual Earth, we should see in the near future a new media placement! The roofs of the buildings will probably look like that in a few years :

Yahoo buy Konfabulator

Nice move to open Yahoo properties data to everyone.
Update : http://widgets.yahoo.com/

MSN launch Virtual Earth : Google Maps will have solid competition

It was a long time I was impressed by something by Microsoft. Virtual Earth is a very nice web based apps with a very high quality aerial pictures, -in US big cities-, up to 4 windows layers of products/services (one fully open plus the scratch pad at the same time). All thoses layers, with transparencies in IE and FF, automatically update when you move your map with your mouse, unlike Google Maps and even Google Earth ! The support of the scroll-wheel of your mouse to zoom in/out is great too. The cartographic data is also a lot more precise than Google Maps, and even Google Earth, and all the small roads in rural region are there.
I'd like to have to possibility to resize and move thoses layers, but it's only day one of this project. Hope they gonna extend the aerial pictures to Canada and get more zoom level to cities like Miami. Nice jobs Bill.

Why Goog fell a bit after doubles earnings on Q2 ?

Here a few cues who explain why.

Corporate communication and blogs

Really good post of Tim Yang on the article of Heidi Cohen on measuring the effects of a corporate blog.

Because blogs communicate on a personal level, they must show some return in terms of increase in brand awareness, brand prestige or credibility, likeability of the brand or understanding of the message.

The goal of which should not be to ascertain profit, but to understand, communicate and network.

Your neighbors data on Gmaps

This apps tells you the name, address, and phone number of everyone on your street (US only:-)! That guy should provide the link to the removal page of that database.

Technical knowledge

	Have a good idea	Not really sure	Never heard the term
Spam	88%	10%	3%
Firewall	78%	19%	3%
Spyware	78%	19%	3%
Internet cookies	68%	27%	5%
Adware	52%	39%	9%
Internet “phishing”	29%	55%	15%
Podcasting	13%	64%	23%
RSS feeds	9%	65%	26%

*Pew Internet & American Life Project [PDF], May 4 - June 7. N=1,336 internet users. Margin of error is +/-3%.

Via Google Blogoscoped

BlogPulse add new tools à la Technorati

Interesting set of new tools been added to BlogPulse.

One small step for Google Maps

Google commemorate the first lunar landing. Pssst! Zoom in at the maximum level.

Google will help distribute Winzip

Vector Capital, the new company who bought WinZip, have made a deal with Google to help them on the distribution of WinZip.

Google open an R&D labs in China

Google open an R&D labs in China with a ex Microsoft scientists !
UPDATE: This new hire have made Microsoft angry.

PageRank and links buying

One of the best article I've read on the subject :

Boykin pointed me to an example of where he'd used the ad-space method, but he didn't want me to publish the URL. The most interesting thing I discovered about his page choice was he'd done his homework. It has 125 .edu domains and two .gov domains among those linking back to it.

I've long said Google very much approves of links from .edu and .gov sites due to their "authority." Boykin's heard me say it many times before.

As he himself says: "To me, that was the selling point. Personally, I could care less about PageRank."

Point final!

China : Paypal open it and Google may have a eye on Baidu

PayPal China offers payments in the local currency and integration with 15 Chinese banks and more than 20 different debit cards and will soon offer buyer protection on China-based eBay.

Here is the article about the rumor on the Baidu acquisition by Google.

Google investing in broadband business

Seem Google, Goldman Sachs Group and Hearst Corp goes in high-speed Internet connections over electricity lines. The company website ( Current Communications)involved in the transaction is currently down ?

Sina.com launched iAsk.com

The new iAsk search engine from one of the majors players in China is finally up and running. You can make queries in english and chinese and search for; news, pictures, music, knowledge, and video.

Google finally release a Google Maps API

Great news for all the scrapers and hackers of the Google Maps ! They release today a API for Google Maps.

Google Earth Goes Free

The Keyhole program, named Google Earth, is now free. Really amazing zooming and panning.

Goog over $305

The future G-Wallet mix with the Google Video should bring it even higher !

IMHO they release Google Video a bit to soon. It's look like a MSN release, need more polish and functionalities.

MSN goes Local Maps and Aerial picture

The Local listing work for US only, but the Canada road maps are there. The user experience is far away from Google Maps. The aerial pictures are not os bad, but the maps is really to small.

Mamma launch www.MammaHealth.com

With the help of CloserLook Search Services, Mamma open MammaHealth, a metasearch engine who crawl different source like MedicineNet.com, MedlinePlus and eMedicine Health. A good move, specialy after reading this and that.

Google Wallet : A warning for PayPal

Hope Ebay unit PayPal have fill a lot patents !

Unusual factors who may help your Google ranking

Some of theses surely influence Google.

Google Maps UK have also their hacks

Very nice uses of Google Maps and multiple datasets (travel news, local news, weather, webcams, flickr, SpeedCam, etc).

Google getting agressive with bundles softwares

Not really like thoses tactics of distribution !

Yahoo going in the VoIP

Yahoo has acquired Dialpad! Hope Google will make the same move with Hello + another VoIP partner or acquisition soon.

Ads Program Comparison

Nice work of Shawn Campbell to compare Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing programs.

Google Maps and the WallPapers Takedown

I saw the Wallpapers site when it's came online a few day ago, and I never put it in my Google Maps Timelime because, IMHO, it's was a simple script who merge only pictures and was not putting another layer of new information over G-MAPS, unlike the Paul Rademacher's style hacks who give a real FREE benefit and a plus value to users.

The Gmerge Hacks can also been easily use to print maps on T-Shirt or any shit like that.

The Google Maps deserve more than, may be with that first takedown, we will see a Google Map's API coming soon !

Interface Design : Google vs Yahoo

Nice post on comparison of functionality of the Yahoo and Google services.

Google in the dark side of.... Answers.com

Funny fact reveal by Jean Veronis !
Note if you enter a capitalyze Google, like it should be, it's a bit better !

A Must Read Before Contacting Me

It was like that a few years ago ! Now only two or three of thoses by year. Educating is the key element !

Google make a step in the Creative Commons with Sitemaps

Nice move ! I whope the next step will be API for Google Maps with the same overture !

GMapTracks : Create easily your own Google Maps

Very cool new tool to easily build your own Google Maps !

Double Trust : A replacement after the closing of Jux2

Nice new site who query Google and Yahoo for the first 40 results and give the intersection's sites and the orphans of both.

Piggy-Bank : A promosing MIT project for semantic and Web 2

The Piggy-Back project will help you to choose diffents sources of information on the Web like RDF and XML/RSS feeds, or even scraping normal web pages, and merge and share thoses differents sources with taxonomy (tags) over the Google Maps !
I will follow this Piggy-Bank project closely and give you some news on it soon ! May be a day to remember ?!?

Why Google is worth that much ?

It is a second techno-bubble ? I don't think so!

There are two main points where Google have clearly the lead over their competitors.

Vision

With is formula of 80/20 rule of time spent on personnal project, thoses are legion and only a few like WebAccelerator and Autolink, have been criticized . Also the fast move on Adwords and AdSense over Goto have made Google a highly profitable business.

Technology

Google, as I know, is the biggest network of "cheap" Web servers on the planet. The also have developed their own OS, based on Open Software, and create a bright system to handle the failure of the system.

If you compare this with the vision and the technology of Microsoft, you're smiling !

Google Reach the 80 billion Capitalization Mark

Wow ! When I saw this, I was thinking : Are we back in 2000 just before the bubble blast ?

Google Earth Preview Screen Shot

Here a sneak peak of Google Earth. Don't forget do see the multitude of layers who will be on it ! Wow... Hope will see Canada too, like in Google Maps ?

Mamma should be now call Mammaaaaaaaaaaaa

Here is the graph and there the story.

The bitter blog of the ex boss of Google France

Seem it was playing hard (in french) in the Google France office. Automatic translation link.

Link Harvester : Really nice link analysis tool

Very useful and bring you a new sight on your friends. The limit imposed by Yahoo Api is a bit frustrating but the mirror sites help.

Google PageRank is down : A fix after the Adsense hijacking ?

Since friday late afternoon, no more PageRank show up in any of the tools providing it. May be a solid fix for the 302 redirection who caused PR highjacking ?

Yahoo MindSet : Sort your SERP's

Yahoo MindSet use a slider bar to sort your result form Researching pages to Shopping pages. After a few dozains of queries, I admit it's working not so bad 50% of the times for the 10 first results. But the best results were found when you set it half way in Shopping or Researching Mode. If you go to the maximum of the two mode, the results will be worst.

Invisible to radar but in the sight of Google Maps

Here it is.

MSN Virtual Earth: Seem more appealing than I thought

This look more solid thant I thought when I first read on it. The idea of the whole screen interface with vertical information layer is attractive and be very popular with all the Google Maps mashup and scraping who get out every day. But, will this be under passport or a close system ? This will be for US only again ? This will be really release this summer ? We have to wait to see if Bill will finally produce something interesting and not to buggy with a good usability !

Will Google reinvent the Ads Market ?

After reading this first article I'm still skeptic. But Gary Price give more ammunitions to the first story.

Search going local : Apton seem to have miss the boat

Funny to read that in mid 2005. I talk to some of the marketers of YP Canada in 2003 and after our talks, they where still afraid to trully invest in Web for the local market. Now I think it's too late for them to get back in the market. Google Local and Google Maps already scan outside YP databases to provide more results to users. Not quite good at this point, but I bet my shirt this will improve in the next year.

Goog has reach 3 times his value in 9 months

It's seem the Goog can possibly make it to the prestigious S&P 500 Index.

This may be explain the recent Balmer fear and today Bill Gates annoncement you will see somewhere this summer. Yeah this summer. Seem there are a little panic in Seattle right now. Bill should convince Georges that Google have a mass destruction weapon ;-)

Craiglist & Google Maps hacks improved

You now have Rooms and Sublets option in the list plus three cities in the Canadian country (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). Great !!!

First use of MyGmaps : Epicurious in my town

If you are hungry don't try this ;-)

Good news from Blogger

Finally something will improve here !

Google Maps hacks : Seem to be OK and may be a API

Really good news from O'Reilly Radar tonight.

Wikipedia getting more and more popular

From this MediaPost article (free sub required) we learn that Wikipedia got more and more surfers (600% over less than 18 months) and start to put shadow on search engine. Here a snippet :

The Hitwise report revealed something else intriguing: With nearly 600,000 "living" articles to date, Wikipedia's orderly collection of consumer-created content is becoming a high-powered magnet for Internet searches. A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search engines placed Wikipedia at 146 in June 2004. But in September 2004 it jumped in the ranking to 93; 71 in December 2004; and in March 2005, it was the 33rd most popular site in terms of visits received from search engines.

Nice move. But I think Wiki is A Web reference, but it's lack of pizzas style like Google Maps or other plus value sites, and it will reach its ceiling soon in a point a view of competition of search engine leads.

New High for Goog

It reach the 240$ this morning !

SEM Getting More and More Complex

Nice article on the new perpectives of the SEM. But the tendencies are more complex. Here a snip :

Luckily, it isn't that difficult to get your client listed in a local-search tool. The largest like Ask, Google and Yahoo have deals with the phone companies and publishers of the Yellow Pages to include all their listings, regardless of whether the businesses listed even have websites.

This is really not enough. The local (YP) listing give not much information and have not enough stuff in it. Some Map Engine like Google Maps, scraped yours internet page to try to found addresses and matching keywords to give results to users. Here is a good example. And here is a bad example.

Also I think the vertical search market will suffer, -- and the services business will be first to bit the dust---, from the mapping search engines.

She also not speak about the RSS. RSS will have a huge impact on SEM. For now, almost only blog and Newspaper sites using it. But that will change soon.

MSN to China with Mobile technology

MSN received approval from Chinese government agencies to deliver MSN products and services to consumers throughout China.

Cheap Gas in US over Google Maps

Update: The site have been put down by the Internet provider ;-(
Update V2: Site is back online!
A new scraping of Google Maps for US drivers. I still continue to update the Google Maps Timeline. Also a scraping of movies and cinemas of 10 american cities.
Seem I will have a lot of job to follow it ;-)

Pay-per-click fraud proposition

An excellent story about India scam on ppc from Tim Yang.

IBM in the wind

Seem the Big Blue have an younger management team ! After the last week Firefox promotion to his workers , they now want them to go blogging.

Clicktracks was caught using black hat seo practices

I don't understand thoses practices ?
MY2C : If you look at any company site envolved in the Web Marketing or SEO and if you checked their numbers of linkdomain ( 972,000) in Yahoo for a newbies company (2002 with only 710 pages indexed), and if you compare it to one of the oldest source (1997) of SEO and Web marketing like Search Engine Watch who got (1,020,000) links and 43,000 pages indexed, that should you ring a bell of black hat linking!!!

Yahoo! News Tag Soup : The popular words of the day

Really nice application where you can saw what's hot today in the news, in a very fast way. The Web is a bit more semantic today !

Why Bush promote so much virtue ?

May be for this;-)

Gigablast add a directory to his offer

Gigablast now have a directory similar to Dmoz, but with a bit more entries in it. You also have a stripped copy (without images) of the page , the date when the page was indexed and sometimes the last modified date. Has Research Buzz mention it, the possibility to search ; the entire directory, the entire category, the pages in the base category, or the site in the base category is a good addition.

Google bizarre acquisition ? Not so !

Google buy Dodgeball.com who is a mobile networking company. At first thought, it seem a weard move from the specialist of the Web information, but when you look at the best last move Google make with Google Maps, it seem to me a not so bad buy. Google will simply focus more and more on ads and local services. It's a huge market and not well operate by techies cie.

Google Going Evil

After the flop of the Google Web Accelerator, Google seem to going to enrole us in anyway they can.

When I go to the Google site this evening, after the black out of Blogger for almost 2 hours (why they don't make maintenance between 1 to 6 am ???), sometimes I saw that information on my screen :




It's looking like when I was login when I tested, really briefly, the My Web History of Google ? When I sign out, the "Sign in" remain on my screen all the time. Even if I deleted the My Web History in my account (I use Gmail and I got an API key) if I click again the "Sign in" link I back in the My Web History ???

If this is still there at the end of the week, bye bye AdSense, Blogger account,and Gmail. Yahoo will have an happy new user !!! I know by my log a few Googleplex peoples read my blog, take this message upstair !

Google Maps Timeline

Oct. 2004 : The inspiration's source site who gave us Google Maps

Update: October 25

8 feb 2005 : Launch of Google Maps
9 feb : Only a day after Google Maps Reversed Engineered
16 feb: First application to localize by GPS your Google Maps
25 feb: Under Google Maps study : Nice paper on AJAX.
3 march: Integration in Google Local of Google Maps US and Canada
7 march: First Unofficial Google Maps Standalone Viewer
11 march: Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets
22 march: MyGmaps allow you to create your own Google Maps!
31 march: Google Ride finder allow you to find a taxi, or a limo, in real time in a dozain of US cities!

6 april : Google Maps add satellite pictures to Google Maps.

6 april : A bunch of sites on Google Maps are appearing on the Web
6 avril : First really amazing scraping site who combine Google Maps+Craig List and make a lot of noises ! Even Google Engineers say Wow!
13 april: Google Maps Mania A great site devote to all mashups, scrapings and other thing about Google Maps
19 april : Google Maps jump over the Atlantic and put the country of fish & chips and Guiness beer on the map!
1 may :Another scraping Google Maps + Yahoo Traffic. A bit long to load but useful in US only.
21 april: Dasnet Terraserver Topographic Maps over Google Maps
2 may: Really nice scraping of Google Maps + Flickr! It's have a huge potential.
3 may: Seattle MLS real estate on Google Maps
12 may: Firefox+Greasemonkey script to automate Geotagging
14 may: Foundcity a urban (New York) tagging tool!
17 may: Chicago (done) and Boston project of Transport Map layer over Google Maps.
17 may: Cheap Gas in US. A really nice integration à la Paul Rademacher!
17 may: 10 US cities Movies and cinemas database (same guy as Cheap Gas above)
17 may: Chicago Crime Geolocation tool
17 may: Miami Real Estate Locator by ListSomething. Poor local copy of Paul Rademacher Craig List & Google Maps
18 may: The first state to do it. Sexual predators list in Florida.
19 may : Seem to be OK to hack Google Maps. The good news, from O'Reilly, is Google may be developing an API to clarify this !
20 may: Google Maps Wallpapers : Not a hack using a layer over it but a tool to merge the small tiles to create a wallpaper.
21 may: My own epicurius scraping with MyGmaps
22 may: Dating Services on Google Maps (US only)
22 may: Craiglist & Google Maps hacks improved and cross the border with three new canadian cities, and with rooms and sublets rental for all the cities !
24 may: Weird embedding of Google Maps in... Flash !?!
25 may: Sex offender in Texas (not working at this moment)
25 may: BBC News on Google Maps. I knew that one will coming up one day !
31 may: Sport Maps for UK with the BBC Backstage data.
June 2: Piggy-Bank is a open source project of MIT to scrap information and turn your Firefox in a Semantic Web Browser. Lots of pootential !!!
June 3: A new tool to easily build your own Google Maps !
June 5: gTraffic.info for UK.
June 9: Seattle Bus Monster. Highly pratical site if you plan to pass by Seattle ! All the Seattle bus information, traffic cams and border data.
June 13: Zoto make a Geobloggers clone !
June 13: Census over Google Maps = gCensus
June 15: Google Maps UK Datasets! Great integration.
June 16: Canadian Real Estate Cytadia
June 20: The One-Way appears now as a blue arrows on maps. Also zoom-out on all the world (just main rivers and country borders are now defined).
June 21: Google Maps add satellite images for the rest of the world. Roma Italia.
June 27: Soon a Open WorldCat scraping to show you where to find your nearest spot for books !
June 29: Google finally release an API for Google Maps
June 30: Wheather over G-Maps
July 8: Irak Casualties
July 10: Gmaps transparencies
July 10: Google Maps Pedometer
July 11: US cities free Wi-fi.
July 11: Real time GPS Tracker over Google Maps
July 11: Been Mapped : Bookmark your best spot on Google Maps and let others vote for it.
July 14: Wifi Hot Spot in US
July 14: Google Maps add Japan with maps and satellite images
July 14: Bod Dylan tour over Google Maps
July 14: GreaseMap An Firefox GreaseMonkey Script to display Google Maps over Web page who contains geolocation data
July 18: Google Maps Control Panel
July 18: Airport Code
July 20: Not a new apps, but a funny story : Google Maps used to fight a fine !
July 20: Google Maps to the moon.Pssst: Zoom at the maximum level.
July 21: HotOrNot.
July 21: Events & Venues Mapper All kind of events and venues in US.
July 22: Find your neighbors (US only). Put your neighbors data with the name, address, and phone number of everyone on that street.
July 22: Google Maps add a Hybrid view. Borders over satellite over all the world and cities and provinces (CAN)/states(US)/county(GB) except for Japan. This may be inspired by Gmaps transparencies
July 23: New hack who help to zoom in. I pretty sure Google will implement that feature soon.
July 23: Wheather in UK on Google Maps.
July 23: WhereIs is a WhoIs (geo-location of server) on Google Maps.
July 25: Really nice integration of a few Vancouver pictures galleries with Google Maps by Pixel Development. Via Google Maps Mania
July 28: Gmdir. A Google Maps Directory
July 28: Google Maps & Virtual Earth side by side.
July 29: KMaps allow Google Maps to work on a Treo 650.
August 2: Oodle An real estate mashup like Paul Rademacher done with a nice tabs integration.
August 2: TLabel, an Google Maps API extension to display text or graphic small window over Google Maps.
August 10: GVisits is mapping your site's visitors on G-Maps with a simple javascript embedding in your page.
August 20: Map your Ancestors
August 20: Wheater Bonk : Professional Weater Maps
August 23: Blackberry can now use Google Maps with HelloWorld apps.
August 30: Over 150 years of hurricane and typhoon data and path.
Sept 9: New Orleans Flood Map with levels of water
Sept 9: Exmouth to Seaton Cycle ride tracklog demo. (Work better in IE than Firefox)
Sept 26: Zip code mapping service. Really nice apps where you can either click on a map's zone or enter data in the zip code box.
Oct 25: Chat with Google Maps. Wow !!!

Note to readers and users of the API: I will not included commercial stuff in that list and/or apps that, IMHO, is not useful -e.g. apps like tagzania-.

Tags: Google Maps , Timeline

Google Web Accelerator : Security Mistake

Seem all the negatives data and the really bad target of this idea have make Gootgle put a hold on this ! Nice move!

Update 8 may : With Internet Explorer it show me the Google Toolbar page ! With Firefox this is appearing :

Thank you for your
interest in Google Web Accelerator.
We have currently reached our
maximum capacity of users and
are actively working to increase
the number of users we can support.

Legal abuse of a black hat SEO company

Here the guy who just tell the facts !
Here is the cache of his previous post!
Here what's John Batelle say about the case.
Here what Inside Google say about this.
Here is the 33,600 links that "SEO" get from Google !!! No comment. I'm getting sick !

Seem to be another security warning with a Google product

Here the story! No surprise.

Google Web Accelerator

Here a few good points to explain why I will never use it.

Google Maps and Flicker : The New Scrapping Who Combine Yahoo & Google

The brand new GeoBloggers -- why not GeoFlickr ? -- is a beta (almost alpha because it is 2 day old) prototype but it can have a huge future if you just think for movie locations.

This scrapping combine the Google Maps and Yahoo (newly acquired) Flickr pictures site and handle the position on the Google Maps with the the geolocation tags (latitude, longitude plus a geotagged flag) you put with your picture in Flickr.

It's far away from the Craig List & Google Maps scrapping user experience, but the idea to combine the two rival search engine is bold and venturesome. Let see...

Sometimes I got to admit Flash can be useful

... Not to be found in search engines in the first page, but when it's a very creative design it can be a nice viral marketing way of promotion.

Monster have less money than Google for China

Google.CN
*Read the previous post and this thread of SEW.

Chinese hijacking Monster Job domain name ?

Seem the Monster Jobs site will have to go around to take the Chinese market. And the company who redirect users using monster.cn or monster.com.cn domain name is not related to Jobs business but is in the email and IM market.

Microsoft learns to crawl : The hard road to build a search engine

Really nice story, by the seattle Times, on the last years at MSN Search Engine Division. Here a funny snips :

Moss and the developer, Keith Bernie, set an ambitious goal of indexing 5 billion Web sites. They unleashed their primitive crawler on the Internet, hoping to build a vast collection of Web pages that could be searched by an engine. But after a week, they were stuck at 24 documents.

"It was driving me nuts," Moss said.

... MSN's Web crawler had been fixed and was scurrying through the Web, boosting the index to 1,100 documents, and then 24,000. By the summer of 2003, it had reached 500,000 pages.

Thoses confirmed my first impressions on the beta in 2003. But I'm really surprise on that hard beginning if you compared it to Yahoo when they leave Google and crawled one or two billion pages in the first weeks !

Via SEO Scoop.

Copernic Win Again the Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools by UW

This really complete study (2.2M, 15 pages), from the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Consortium, who tested 12 desktop tools on six criteria; usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness.

Again the winner is Copernic. With no surprise the second is the Yahoo desktop search.

But the third one, is a new player for me : Wizetech Archivarius 3000. A another Canadian software firm from Vancouver who also involved in; music, MP3 and font catalog. I will come back on this soft later.

Ad Revenues Up 33 Percent In 2004

From the ClickZ story the new metrics for online ad is going a lot better than the data predicted a few months ago.

Google's Robots.txt is not valid

Why Google add this Allow command to Search History ? This is going against the standard.

Ads soon in your RSS reader

Google is testing his AdSense ads in RSS and Atom feed.

FireFox will hit the 50 million download mark tomorrow

Congratulation.

Yahoo Counterattack to Google My Web History

Here it is. More on SEW.

Finding Whom Use Wich AdSense Keywords

Googspy is a scrapping site to find out which AdSense keywords are use by who.

Google Maps Inspiration ?

Here a really nice mapping service of Switzerland. I'd love the road layer over satellite image and the zoom level in and out with the left or right mouse click on the maps. There are a huge chance this site have been seen the inspiration for the Google Maps.

Funny Coincidence on CPM Marketing

The day where the old king of Internet advertisement, DoubleClick been sold, Google will start beta testing CPM ads !

Following the trends

Nice little service to monitor month by month your site.

Google have been the winner of the day on Nasdaq

After deposit of the Q4 data, Google have made the better performance on dollars variation on Nasdaq. The after market trading skyrocket the Goog action to $223.69 at 8hpm ET !

RSS Causing the Decline of Mailing Lists and Email Marketing ?

Theses metrics come from one of the majors of the email marketing industry, in the DoubleClick report of december 2004:

The Q3 2004 average open rate (average of 34.3 percent) declined 7.5 percent from Q3 2003 (37.1%), while the average click-through rate (8.2%) decreased 10.9 percent during the same period (9.2%).

I'm not sure RSS have so much influence on thoses metrics, -I personnaly think it's more spam gates who are more and more used by access providers-, but RSS will be for sure, the next big channel of communication. I'm a bit surprise to not find RSS/XML links in a lot of place where they should be use.

RSS is not only for Blogs and News

Where do you find now RSS links :

• Blog sites
• News sites

Where you should find RSS links to bring a better communication between you and your clients :

• Corporate Press releases page
• Human Resources Jobs posting sections
• Whitepapers section
• New products section
• Bestsellers list page
• Inventory sale section
• Calendar of events section
• Discount Coupons page
• Contests & Sweepstakes pages
• Downloads of softwares and patches pages
• Portfolio section
• Classified ads sections (a must)

In a limited-access (log-in) zone you can also use RSS to :

• Make awareness messaging with yours; affiliates, employees, team members or investors
• Podcasting (links to a audio content like a radio shows)
• VideoCasting (links to Video comments, interviews or statements)
• AppCasting (Alpha & Beta software releasing)
• Consulting & billing awareness tool
• Agenda feeds
• A emergency warning channel
• ...
  

A another good example of the tendancy of RSS supplanting mailing list.

Update 13h22 EDT : Funny coincidence, an hour after this post I learn that DoubleClick is close to sale!

Google launch My Web History : A new step in personalization ?

Here the place to register. Here a SEW paper on it. More details later...

Snap Suggest

Snap add a suggest box when you type in your search. It work a bit better than Google Suggest because he does substring and not showing only words by the leading character you type in.

Also at the place to display the number of results, Snap display the number of searches performed by users, like the Overture tool who sometimes give you really bad measurement influenced by their own PPC campaigns.

With WordTracker, the Snap Suggest give us a third source to see how a word is popular in search. The drawback is it's not working with foreign language when you got diacritic in the character.

Google Maps make the jump to Britain

No satellite images, but all the maps and vital local information are there.

MSN going in the Search Engine Clustering ?

A team at Microsoft Research Asia have released SRC (Search Result Clustering) in a Beta version. The engine who give you cluster results in the way Clusty or Northern Light does it a few years ago.

It's pretty slow for now, seem to dig pretty deep (even found some of my Flickr pictures) but need a lot of polish in the resulting clusters and results. I found a lot of duplicate links and a big problem with foreign characters.

How to make a Web Designer AND a SEO guy happy ?

Just with three little letters : DTR. Thoses stand for Dynamic Text Replacement.

For a graphic designer the web is a nightmare mainly because the limited text styling he can use on a web page to attract his audience. Specially with the titles, the designer have only a choice of a few fonts because the end-user of the page got to have the same font in his computer to have the same rendering on the page. Specially with all the different operating systems (pc, mac, linux) this narrowed a lot the choice of the designer.

The easy way to solve the problem was to convert the text in a image to get back a lot of choice in the text styling. It will give headaches to webmaster on a site that is updated several times per day. This is also a very bad thing for the search engine robots and text analyzing softwares, who can't understand text embed in images. Also it is a huge problem for the search engine optimizer peoples who count on text titles to improve ranking in the search engine result pages.

The solution for those problems are here in this demo page. You got all the files and the recipe here in english, french and german.

Adobe buy Macromedia

A big move on the graphic and Web design software business.

Copernic won't be buy by Mamma.com

The Mamma plan to acquire Copernic is over. On the press release they just publish on their site, they announced that Copernic Technologies Inc. has decided it no longer wishes to pursue a sale transaction with them.