YouTube in its official post has reported that considering the number of users outside US, Its high time  for YouTube  to move multilingual and there will be addition of 9 more domains. The launch on the nine new domains will be in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland, and UK.

In the post,  Sakina Arsiwala, International Manager, YouTube says

In response to many requests, each new site is fully translated and localized for each country including content (Featured Videos, Director Videos, Promotions), as well as the interfaces, search, user support, and such community features as video ratings, sharing, and content flagging.

These new localized version of YouTube from Google will sophisticate users and will make their search more easier.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, YouTube, 9 more domains in YouTube

Business week has reported that Google is expected to build a data center in western Iowa and estimated the cost to be around $600 million. The data center is to be opened on the spring of 2009 in Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation’s new business park. The report says,

The Internet leader has already begun construction on a 55-acre site in Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb. The center is expected to create about 200 jobs with an average salary of about $50,000.

Mark

SEO Tags :  Google, Data Center in Iowa

Google-latlong Blog has reported that Google Maps now allows user ratings and reviews of local businesses. Jonathan Goldman said,

Google Maps has offered a collection of reviews assembled from some of the finest sources on the web for some time, but now we’re augmenting those with reviews from an even better source: you — and, we hope, millions of other opinionated Google users.

Search your favorite place you are interested in and click on the “more info” link. From this page click on “write a review” and get started.

I think all will have a good time explaining your favorite places.

Mark.

SEO Tags : Google Maps, Google

Webmaster world and SERoundtable has reported that the Google Adwords advertisers are annoyed over the column sorting bug. When a advertiser tend to sort his data’s with respect to a specific column, the data was sorted accordingly but no more remembered.

This seems to retain for a couple of weeks and Google advertisers seem to be very annoyed according to the discussion in Webmasterworld forum.

Few statements from Advertisers,

Keep reverting to cost, with zero cost ad campaigns at the top. Normally when you change the column sorting, Google remembers. Mine keeps going back to AVG CPC in ascending order.

I keep changing it back to AVG CPC descending order but it won’t remember it. This happened some time ago, and it’s happening again.

It’s still happening. Annoyed

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Adwords, Search Engine Marketing, Google Webmaster Tools, Google

Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox leaves Google and become product team lead at real estate start-up Zillow. The development of new ad, feed and email products are to be taken over by her in zillow.

Vanessa Fox in her personal blog has stated that,

I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow.

I’ll still be around in search. My company name may change, but I still plan to see you all online and at the bar, talking search and Buffy and mobile devices.

And I have great confidence in the webmaster central team and know this project that feels so much like my baby is in very capable hands and will continue to grow and thrive.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Webmaster Central, Vanessa Fox, Zillow 

Search Engine Land has mentioned the study of search engine queries from Dogpile. From the April 2007 study by Queensland University of Technology and Pennsylvania State University has stated that,

• The percent of total results unique to one search engine was established to be 88.3 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by any two search engines was established to be 8.9 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by three search engines was established to be 2.2 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by the top four search engines was established to be 0.6 percent.

The majority of first page results are unique:

• On average, 69.6 percent of Google first page search results were unique to Google.
• On average, 79.4 percent of Yahoo! first page search results were unique to Yahoo!

Sponsored links on Google and Yahoo:

• Only 4.6 percent of Yahoo! and Google sponsored links overlap for a given query.
• For 22.8 percent of all queries Google did not return a sponsored link where Yahoo! returned one or more.
• For 9.9 percent of all queries Yahoo! did not return a sponsored link where Google returned one or more.

Find the complete study on infospace.

Mark

SEO Tags : Dogpile, Search Engines, Google, Yahoo

Google announced the acquisition of Panoramio, Panoramio is a photo mapping software which links millions of photos with the exact geographical location and the website is based on spain. So this aquisition will be very useful for Google in completing Google Earth application.

More details of Panoramio on Google : http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/annc_panoramio.html

Panoramio’s blog on aquisition of Google,

Most people upload their photos to Panoramio to share them through Google Earth, and it’s way cool to see Panoramio’s photos in Google Earth, so the upcoming acquisition reaffirms the current win-win situation.

Mark

SEO Tags : Panoramio, Google Earth

Search Engine Land had a post on Google Korea which went out from Google’s “classic,” minimalist home page approach. Google Korea has launched its new home page with animation icons. Animate Product buttons below the search box is a new feature added to the Korean home page. These buttons tend to the respective product home pages.

The icons represented as colored dots will change to animated icons on mouse over.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, Google Home Page, Google Korea 

Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player from Google Operating System reports that YouTube tests a new video player to have better interaction with videos and also to create a good cinematic experience. They have added some features which were already present in Google videos.

Added Features,

1. Jump to any part of the video even if the video isn’t fully downloaded.
2. Around ten related videos with thumbnails at bottom which resembles the dock from Mac OS X.
3. The menu button which gives you easy access to embed code or the URL of the YouTube page that shows the video.

New Player can be viewed now after a upload in orkut,

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, YouTube, YouTube’s New Player

Google has made a post on the release of Google Calender Beta. Google believes that people use Phones more than computers and it is also difficult for them to plan the events and maintain the schedule as well. Yahoo Calendar is already available in mobile through OneSearch.

Visit Google Calendar from your mobile and watch your agenda of upcoming events, complete with details like date, time, location, description, and guest list. Have a tour on Google Calendar Beta.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Calendar, Mobile Phone Applications, Google