Google has released an update to the PageRank values shown in the Google Toolbar. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, confirmed the update in a tweet. The toolbar PageRank is a simplified snapshot of Google’s internal PageRank , with the toolbar PageRank values rounded to whole numbers from 1-10. The toolbar PageRank is [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Google Toolbar PageRank Updated
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Google Image Search Expands Search By Style Option
Friday, December 19th, 2008Google has expanded the option to search by style in their image search. Google already provided the ability to search for images with faces, images from news articles, and to only show photos. Today they announced the option to only show clip art or line drawings. Microsoft’s Live Search Images provides the option of displaying [...]
Yahoo To Begin Anonymizing User Data Within 90 Days
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Yahoo today announced that they would begin to anonymize user data within 90 days. This includes search log data as well as page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks. Previously, Yahoo had kept unanonymized search log data for up to 13 months. Google currently keeps search log data unanonymized for up 9 months [...]
Microsoft To Begin Testing Updated Search Crawler
Friday, December 12th, 2008Microsoft has announced that they will be testing an updated MSNBot, the crawler for MSN/Live Search, in the coming weeks. The crawler will use the user agent string msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) and will be crawling a slow speed during testing according to a post on the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog. No details were given as [...]
WordPress 2.7 Released
Thursday, December 11th, 2008The finalized version of WordPress 2.7 was released yesterday, coming one day after the second release candidate. The most visible change in 2.7 is the admin interface, which has received a new look and is highly customizable. The new Quick Edit option in the Edit Posts page allows for changing quickly changing posts titles, categories, [...]
Google Expands AdSense Program for Parked Domains
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Google has opened up AdSense for Domains, it’s advertising program for parked domains, to all English language AdSense publishers in North America. Previously, the program was only available to “large domain portfolio owners.” The program provides the ability for owners of parked domains to generate revenue from those domains by allowing Google to display ads, [...]
AdWords Reduces U.S. Alcohol Related Restrictions
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Google announced that they have reduced the restrictions on advertising hard alcohol and liqueur through AdWords for ads that target the United States. Previously, there was a complete ban on advertising hard alcohol and liqueur. Under the new policy, advertising that promotes information, such as recipes and brand messages is permitted, but directly promoting the [...]
Google Adds Option to Target Ads to iPhone and T-Mobile G1
Monday, December 8th, 2008Google today announced the option to target ads to phones with full (HTML) Internet browsers in AdWords advertising system. Currently only the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1 are supported, but according to a post on the Inside Adwords blog, as additional devices enter the market they will be available to target. The new targeting option [...]
Google Provides Greater Control of Googlebot Crawl Rate
Friday, December 5th, 2008Google has changed the crawl rate setting in Google Webmaster Center to allow for more control of the rate that Googlebot crawls a website. Previously, the crawl rate could set to normal, slower, and in some cases faster. The new setting allows for setting the crawl rate based on the number of request per second [...]
Opera 10 Alpha Released
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Opera has released the first alpha version of Opera 10, which introduces a new version of the Presto engine, according to a post on the Opera Desktop Team blog. The new version of Presto, 2.2, receives a perfect score in the Acid3 test, a test of compliance with web standards. The only other engine that [...]
