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Saturday, November 20, 2004

Interesting post Google guy about difference in google directory Pagerank and the google toolbar pagerank

Recently I came across an interesting post by google guy, He agrees the Directory pagerank scale and the Toolbar pagerank scale are different,

This is an extract from his interesting post in forums.searchenginewatch.com

Quirk 4: "toolbar PageRank and directory PageRank can differ by up to two
units". Given that the toolbar and the directory go up to different maximum
values (10 and 8, yah?), and that in a fully incremental index, updates can
happen asynchronously in one area like the directory compared to the toolbar
display, this wouldn't surprise me an iota.

Your will be interested in seeing the other quirkes too,

Source: forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=23150#post23150

Google Guy AKA Matt Cutts voice powerful in google

Google guy recently replied to a poster that he will tell his webmaster to change the information displayed on the features.html page,
That page on google site said the link: command shows all links pointing to a site, Now he made his webmaster change the wordings to the following information, immediately the information was changed to the following,

Who Links To You?
Some words, when followed by a colon, have
special meanings to Google. One such word for Google is the link: operator. The
query link:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL. For example,
link:www.google.com will show you pages that point to Google's home page. You
cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.

Source: https://www.google.com/help/features.html

This is what he replied after his webmaster made the necessary changes,

Actually, I think the page has already been changed:
google.com/features.html now just says that it returns links, not "all links"
like it did before. I dropped an email to our webmaster last night after this
thread pointed it out, and I think they managed to change it this
morning.(Thanks to folks for pointing it out, by the way..)

Google Guy as I have always believed is an important person in google company, After lot of research evidence points to Matt Cutts, According to me he is the Googleguy who posts in webmasterworld.com and searchenginewatch.com

Friday, November 19, 2004

Google Guy's take on link: command returning random backlinks in google,

Google Guy's take on the useless backlink command, Here is a small snippet taken from the original posting by him in search engine watch forums

Google doesn't return all backlinks in response to a link: command. In the ancient days, it was because there was a finite amount of storage space on the machines that served link: requests. So we only kept the backlinks for the top N pages. Later as we moved to a different indexing system, we kept backlinks for the top M% of pages. This was helpful for important pages, but it meant that Mom and Pop sites with lower PageRank wouldn't have as good a chance to see their backlinks.

source: forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2423&page=2

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Blogger International foreign language service starting soon

Recently we saw the following posting in the google blog, Blogger seem to enhance their system with more feature that support foreign languages, This is a small extrac from the google blog,

The Blogger team has begun the process of internationalizing our
service. While the posting interface and some other pages throughout Blogger are
not yet translated, they soon will be. Meanwhile, right now native speakers of
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified
Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean will see an increasingly familiar
version of Blogger in their own languages when they sign in.

More info here, www.google.com/googleblog/

Sunday, November 14, 2004

Google, Microsoft no longer 'more evil than satan'

People have heared of Googlebombs for a long time, Now there is a new kind of anchor text bombing call the MSN Bomb,

Usually google bombing or anchor text bombing is the method of adding a particular keyword or phrase in anchor text and making a particular site rank, There are some bloggers involved in this,

After the launch of MSN beta search it showed sites like microsoft and google on top of the searches for 'more evil' and more evil than satan, It was a bit frustrating for many users, Now MSN search has been fixed,

This is what they say on their blogs,

As mentioned in a previous post on this blog, we recently received our
first few MSN Bombs. One of these was the phrase “more evil than satan”,
which brought up both Google and Microsoft in the top 10 results. A number
of you sent us feedback on this.Well, we just pushed out our latest round of
automated relevance improvements and they changed the results. Now neither
Google nor Microsoft rank in the top 10 any more for this particular
query. Our algorithm changed its mind.Just so you know (since I’m sure
you’ll ask), this wasn’t a targeted change. We are constantly refining our
ranking algorithms to produce the best, most accurate results, so changes like
this happen all the time. Finally, for the record, we won’t be commenting
on the ranking of individual results from here on out. The algorithm
decides! Feel free to send us feedback.