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 ;-)