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Saturday, December 22, 2007Googe is testing Knol. A social networking site.Recently I read a post about Knol from Google. Knol stands for a unit of knowledge. Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. In my opinion, Knol will be a social networking site for professionals who know and/or specialize on specific fields or industries. Knol will be a good source to find accurate and updated information about important topics that can make your life easier. Here are 2 paragraphs from Google's Blog: ..."Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try anew, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project. The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors -- but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content. At the heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word "knol" as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write; we'll do the rest. "... It'll be interesting to see what Google ends up doing with this project. Labels: About Google Posted by Matt Bulox at 1:41 AM 0 Comments:<< Back to Home
Tuesday, December 18, 2007Google's New Video Sitemap ToolJohn Fisher-Ogden (Software Engineer) and Amy Wu (Associate Product Manager) from Google posted an article on Google Webmaster Central blog about the newest tool for Webmasters, I’m talking about the Video Sitemaps. Really, the Google Video team put a lot of effort on this which will help many users to search the world’s public videos. This new feature was created by the Google Video team and the Sitemaps folks. You can now add the video specific Sitemap to the standard Sitemap and specify the video files on your site. Also, you can add relevant metadata…do you want to know how? Take a look at the following example from Google Webmaster Central blog. Get started today and let Google know about your content. Sign in to your Google Webmaster account. Labels: About Google Posted by Matt Bulox at 1:26 AM 0 Comments:<< Back to Home
Thursday, December 13, 2007Google Toolbar 5 (Beta)Google has released a new toolbar version which includes new and improved features. The Toolbar’s features are the following: - Custom buttons for Google Gadgets. - You can access all of your toolbar settings, bookmarks and custom buttons from any computer. - Google notebook is included with Google Toolbar 5. This allows you to clip, collect and share info as you browse the web. - The Google Toolbar Find Bar. With this feature, you can search words as you type and quickly locate and highlight key terms across different pages. - Google Toolbar 5 shows you suggestions web addresses that you may mistype, instead of seeing a 404 or DNS error page. - The AutoFill feature has been improved. You can keep several profiles to serve your business and personal needs and store credit card info with password protection. - The AutoLink feature lets you turn text about vehicle, book and map info into useful links. - Web History can be accessed now through the Google Toolbar 5 to see where you have been searching lately and see suggestions for related searches. - If you do not know the exact URL of a site, you can now simply type the domain name into your browser address bar; this feature is called Browse by Name. - Other great features are: Bookmarks, Send to, Google Settings Notification, Translate, Pop-up Blocker, Spellcheck, Pagerank which design has been changed and Highlight Search Terms. You can read and learn more about Google Toolbar 5 (Beta) here. Make sure you read the Toolbar Privacy Policy. Download Google Toolbar 5 (Beta) Labels: About Google Posted by Matt Bulox at 6:04 PM 0 Comments:<< Back to Home
Saturday, December 1, 2007The anatomy of Search Results in GoogleMatt Cutts (He is currently the head of Google's Webspam team) went to Google’s Kirkland offices where he was recorded when talking about the anatomy of a search result giving useful tips to help you improve how your sites show up in Google’s results pages. In my opinion, Matt gives high quality information, he covers everything you see in a search result, page title, page description, sitelinks plus other explanation about those elements that sometimes appear, such as stock quotes, cached pages links, etc. I have embbeded the video below for you. Have fun!!! Labels: About Google Posted by Matt Bulox at 9:39 AM 0 Comments:<< Back to Home
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