‘Google’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)  is a combination of  Javascript and XML to process information without having to refresh the page. It is used increasingly in web applications and may websites and  search engines have great difficulty crawling  websites that use AJAX because they do not execute  Javascript. With this being a modern and useful feature for visitors on websites, there is a considerable need to be able to crawl this information. Sites that use AJAX produces URLs that look like, http://www.example.com/#state1 everything after the octothorpe is meaningless to a crawler. Google have been researching methods to crawl AJAX sites and have developed…

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Excerpt: Google labs have created another project which looks to be very useful. Google Fast Flip is a news reader that presents recent articles from well respected or well read news sources. Most striking thing about it is that the articles are presented on the same page allowing you to scan them very quickly. Clicking on one of the brings takes you to that story. You can also search for the latest stories about a partiular topic and this will return stories that are particularly topical. How useful it becomes depends on the quality of the content from sites that are allowed…

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Excerpt: Following the success of the Google Chrome browser,  yesterday Google announced that are developing their own operating system called Google Chrome to take advantage of their application that are already being used on the web. The new operating system is intended to be small and fast loading which would be an obvious advantage on Netbooks which are primarily used for working online. This OS  will be Open Source and so will be free to use.  It will run on x86 and ARM processors. It will also have a simple architecture, the operating system will run in a new windowing  system on…

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Excerpt: The recent Vince update to Google, where generic terms become associated to brands even if they are not specifically targeting a keyword has caused much consternation in the SEO community. In the US the changes were noticed as far back as Feb. Aaron Wall has shown some evidence for brands being pushed up by the change when it happened in the US. The update was supposed to have be rolled out to the UK on Sunday, 29th June, 2009. Looking at the search results in the UK for generic items there is scarce evidence for a preference for well known brand…

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Excerpt: Following on from the revelations that nofollow will  no longer work for sculpting PageRank, there is a post on Matt Cutts’ blog explaining the issue. It is not the information that it will no longer work that is surprising, more the revelation that it has been this way for more than a year! ….when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank…