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.