Google's 10th Birthday

Happy Birthday

Today its Google's Birth Day and with every year passing by Google has dominated the internet. No one had ever imagined that a simple search engine launched 10 years back will one day change the internet. I wish Google a very happy Birth Day. The logo below was one of the first logo's used for the Google Beta.

Used for Google Beta Version

Once again Happy Birthday to all Google Members

Google to Launch New Web Browser Named Google Chrome

Google has officially announced the launch of new open source web browser named Google Chrome. The web browser will go live in few hours from now across more than 100 countries, so watch out for this new web browser. The browser will be available for windows users only as the Mac and Linux versions are still awaited but we can expect them very soon. Google badly was in need of its web browser to compete with Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Remember Microsoft has recently launched Internet Explorer 8, Beta 2, browser which was seen as a blow to Google as it is capable of hiding user information which is very important for Google for its targeted advertising.

Source: Google Blog

Google to Display Ads Under Search Results

You must be familiar of the Google Adwords at the top and right hand side of the Google search results page (SERP's). Now be prepared to see them at the bottom of the google search results pages which Google has confirmed at Search Engine Round table. The same is being currently tested on the Google's Australian Search Engine version. Although Google had tested dispalying Adwords at the bottom of the search engine result pages back in 2005 but the tests were stopped. Now Google has again decided to go with it. I feel that the quality of the result pages will be much less, as the pages will be full of Ads.


Source: Searchengineland.com

Microsoft Releases "Porn Mode" Browser a blow to Google

Microsoft has released its internet explorer 8, Beta 2, browser. The new version of internet explorer is capable of hiding the history of the user. In simple words it hides the browser history from other users of the same computer.

Inprivate mode not only helps you to hide your browsing history but also temporary Internet files, form data, user name and passwords, cookies from being retained by the browser, thus leaving no evidence of your browsing or search history. Earlier you had to manually delete the cookies, temporary files, search history etc and other users were able to see your search history very easily endangering your privacy.

The new version of Internet Explorer could be a big blow to Internet rival Google, which depends heavily on the browsing history of the users for its targeted advertising. The new "Inprivate mode" is also known as "Porn mode"

Internet Explorer 8 is expected to help users spend less time searching and browsing, and takes them more directly to the information they need.


You can Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 by clicking here.
Source: Sky.com

Video Optimization

With internet getting rich in streaming videos, video optimization has become necessary so that your videos rank better in Google video search. The important thing that you can do is to make your video Google rank better is by adding video sitemap. Video sitemap is in addition to your standard website sitemap. You can list all the videos in your website that are present on your website, along with metadata of the video. Below is an example of a typical video sitemap.

You can create a video site map, and submit the site map by logging into Google Webmaster tools.

Google can now index flash text, the flash video have become Google friendly and google can read the text in your flash file.

Source: Google Official Blog

Top 10 search engines for july 2008

Have a look on the top search engines. Yet again google is ruling the search engine market with 16% growth in searches from july 2007 to july 2008 contributing to 60% of the total searches on the internet. Yahoo searches dropped to 11% july 2007 to july 2008 and contributes 17.4% to the search engine market.MSN searches also dropped by 10% and had a total share of 11.9% of the market.

AOL searches dropped by 9% from July 2007 to July 2008. Ask.com's searches rose to 13% contributing 2% to the overall search engine market.


Statistics released Tuesday by Nielsen Online.

New Search Engine Launched to Defeat Google

Former web staffers have launched a giant search engine named cuil pronounced as "cool" which uses more than 120 billion pages to build up its index and is more than what google uses.The algorithm of the website is different than what google uses. Cuil rates the web pages as per the information and numbers of the visitors to that particular website instead of quality backlinks as in case of google.But surely the website will have to struggle like other search engines.


The founders of this website Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier are former Google staffers. The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7528503.stm

Keyword Research Video

Optimizing your websites for search engines needs the right keywords that have a good search volume and are related to your content. Before choosing the keywords it is necessary to do a research of the keywords to ensure good and targeted traffic to your website. Yahoo's overture tool was very famous to do a research for your keywords but since last year yahoo has suspended the overture keyword service. Google has a keyword research tool also which is meant for adworks especially but is very useful for optimizing websites also. Recently Google has started to show number of searches for a particular keyword in a month which was not present before.Word tracker has been a preferred choice for every seo professional to do thorough research of keywords. The video below will explain how to research for a keyword in word tracker.

Google can now index flash

Google has announced the development of new algorithm that can explore flash files like normal text. If you have flash in your websites dont worry about it the flash text will automatically begin to be indexed. However, the the text written on the images won't be indexed. Google will also index and follow any url written in a flash. Google won't be able to index Hebrew language or Arabic content until it is fixed. Remember avoid using javascript to load your flash as google still poor to index javascript.

Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

Google Changes its Home Page

Google the giant search engine changed its home page after it had declined to make any change to its home page. The new page would read as "©2008 Privacy" while as it was "©2008 Google". Though the number of words on th home page remains unchanged.



The change was made after the privacy organizations wrote to the CEO Eric Schmidt to link its privacy policy with its home page. Microsoft and yahoo have already links to their privacy policy while as Ask.com had added it on 18th June.

Directory Submission : one way link building video

Number of quality backlinks i.e links from other websites pointing to your website is a very important aspect to effect your ranking in google and all other search engines.The best way to get quality links is directory submission to good web directories. One way link building by means of directory is explained in the video below.

Meta Tags Optimization Video

Meta tag optimization is one of the important step to optimize your page for search engines. Meta tags include meta keywords, meta description, meta title, robots, author etc. It is very important to optimize your website's meta tags to make search engine's rank your page better. Although meta tags are not weighed like they used to be before but its one of the factors that effect your search engine ranking. The video below will explain you how to create and optimize your meta tags.

Link Building, Link Building Video

This video will explain how to build the links for your website effectively. Building links for your blog or website help your website/blog to improve page rank and to rank better in search engines. Building quality links is the primary goal for achieving optimization of website.


SEO Lessons - Lesson 5 - The Link Building Process - The funniest movie is here. Find it

Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google.

Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google. currently he is the head of Google's Webspam team.



He joined Google in January 2000 as software engineer.