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.