October 8, 2007

What if Google controlled your life?

Inetresting article from Radaronline

First graduate of Google Labs India : Google Suggest in Hindi

Google suggests in Hindi is the first google project to graduate out of Google India Labs

Google Suggest in hindi

Search queries can be typed in english as usual and google suggest will suggest hindi transliterated suggestions.

Next from yahoo

http://next.yahoo.com used to look like this few months back.

Old yahoo next
and this was explanation from yahoo about it

“What is Yahoo! Next?

It’s a showcase of some of Yahoo!’s newest and coolest projects - the cutting edge of what Yahoo!’s doing today and working on for tomorrow!”

This is how it looks like now.

new yahoo next

A Comprehensive Guide to Hidden Text & Search Engines

Well written article from SEOmoz about hidden text and search engines take on this.

Its official : Selling Paid Links Hurts PageRank Or Rankings On Google : via Searchengineland

Searchengineland got confirmation from Google “that PageRank scores are being lowered for some sites that sell links.”
In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached, to prevent them from ranking well.

Google says that most people hit with a PageRank decrease will likely notice this, and then they can request a review.

Full article here.