Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Google Suggest Launched

Google has launched Google Suggest , a search feature that provides real time suggestions during searches.

Google's Jennifer Liu wrote that Google Suggest is getting rolled out this week.

Below are some great ways Google Suggest can help simplify your searching.

Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing hotels in washington or hotels in washington state? Let Google help you search.

Reduce spelling errors Instead of wasting your time with a misspelled query like new yrok times, search the first time with the correctly-spelled query.
















Saves keystrokes Who wants to spend their time typing san francisco chronicle when you can just type in "san f..." and choose the suggestion right away?


Thursday, August 21, 2008

Yahoo Buzz

Yahoo Buzz is a new way for you to discover, vote for, and share the content and stories that matter most to you.

How does this work?

You cast your vote on the most interesting Web stories, images or videos about anything and everything. The best part is that the stories with the highest Buzz Scores – determined by combining your votes with organic search popularity rankings –may be featured on the Yahoo! homepage, giving you the power to influence what what millions of people see on Yahoo .


To add Yahoo! Buzz buttons to your own articles, web pages and blog posts, go to http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons



How to get more votes


Put Yahoo! Buzz buttons on everything you publish.

Consider adding two buttons for each story you publish: one at the top and one at the bottom.

Put larger buttons with vote count.

Tell your visitors what Yahoo! Buzz is and encourage them to vote for your stories (and send them to friends).

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

TOP Article Directories

www.Ezinearticles.com (PR 6)

www.Goarticles.com (PR 6)

www.Articlealley.com (PR 5)

www.Articlesbase.com (PR 5)

www.Articlecity.com (PR 5)

www.A1articles.com (PR 4)

www.Searchwarp.com (PR 4)

www.articlecube.com (PR 4)

www.Amazines.com (PR 3)

www.Ideamarketers.com (PR 3)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Google might be using different data centers

One forum member at WebmasterWorld thinks that Google might be using different data centers for query refinements. The reason he suspects this is because he's performing the same search but finding different results.

It's possible that if Google is realizing that users are not happy with those search results (since they searched again) and are offering a different set of results.

Google launches new feature in SERP

New boxes will be displayed in the top right section of the results page (SERPs) sharing the reasoning behind the placement of listings for their search.

The Official Google Blog says -

You'll see these new messages whenever your search results have been customized based on one or more of the following types of information

Location By default, we identify your approximate city location based on your computer's IP address and use it to customize your search results.

Recent searches We take into account whether a particular query followed on the heels of another query. Because recent search activity provides such valuable context for understanding the meaning behind your searches, we use it to customize your results whenever possible, regardless of whether you're signed in or signed out.

Web History If you're signed in and have Web History enabled, we customize your search results based on what you've searched for in the past on Google, and what web sites you've visited. One important note about Web History: it belongs to you and you have complete control over it. You can remove specific items or pause the service at any time.