Google personalised homepage has now added some themes to make your page more colourful. The Blogspot from Google has announced the release yesterday. Google has now started with six themes.

Beach, Bus Stop, City Scape, Sweat Dreams, Tea House and Seasonal Scape are the six themes currently in use. After you save the theme you will be asked to enter your zip code. So for example if you select Beach theme and enter the postal code, the image will be having sunrise and sunset according to your local time calculated from your zip postal code.

Personalise your Google pages now with more impressive themes and enjoy your wheather inside the office. Instead of a plain page these themes seems to be fine. Enter your Google prsonalised Homepage now.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Personalised HomePage, Google Themes

In the WSJ report on Comcast Signals Unhappiness With Google the disappointment of Comcast on Google was the main picture. Comcast, the second largest broad band ISP in U.S. was in talks with Microsoft whether it can provide a better revenue than Google.

Comcast, one of the biggest non-Google sources of search queries handled by Google, has received $70 million this year from Google. The site gets 15 million visitors per month, making it a major source of search queries and hence it feels to make atleast $100 million from Google.

Google’s deal with Comcast is still the end of the year and talking with Microsoft, it aims to renew Google’s deal. Seeking Alpha has discussed about it - In swipe at Google, Comcast is Negotiating with Microsoft.

Mark

SEO Tags : Comcast, ISP, Google’s deal, Microsoft

Readwriteweb two days before has reviews on Summize - Enhancing search with Heatmaps. Summize is a search engine commonly known for shopping. A heatmap is a visualization technique by which they use colors to display complex information.

In Summize, they aggregate various reviews and oppinions and use a band of colors to represent the weekness and the stongest levels of a product. They use a spectrum of colours from red to green where the negatives are marked in red, positives in green and other opnions in various colors.

The opinions are shown on mouse over of the image. Likewise, Wize is a also a product search engine which gives unique rankings for each product.

Here you can see Wize rankings for each products. This useful information helps users in taking better decisions in the time of purchase.

Mark

SEO Tags : Wize, Summize, Heatmaps, Product search engines

Handling video search is a very big question mark for search engines. The relavance of the search terms is not predictable. Yesterday read/write web had an interview with Matt cutts Google about the next generation search. The last question disscussed was about video search and a brief explation is here about relavancy, You Tube and Google videos.

Today in Read/write web, there was news about blinkx. Blinkx the largest video search engine on the Web has released Video seo Wiki which has some guidelines for video search. Blinkx has indexed more than 7,000,000 hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it “fully searchable and available on demand.”

This content will be useful to know how search engines rank video content.

Mark

SEo Tags : Blinkx, Google Video, YouTube, Video Search, Video SEO Wiki

Matthew Gray created Wanderer, the first autonomous agent on the web. When just 130 sites entertained the total web, Matthew Gray was the first to create the web spider, the first web search engine, Wanderer.

In google book search blog, Matthew has posted about how he wrote a program to plot the world, with the frequency of its locations mentioned in books. Matthew says

“I wanted to show the Earth viewed from books, where individual mentions of locations in books combine to yield another interpretation of the globe. The intensity of each pixel is proportional to the number of times the location at a given set of coordinates is mentioned across all of the books in Google Books Search.”

Matthew is now working in Google, Boston.

Mark

SEO Tags : Matthew Gray, First Web Search creator, Wanderer, Web search engine, Google Books, Google Earth

As per the thread in seroundtable today morning, Yahoo and Google seem to update the link count for all sites. Many webmasters have reported about the increase in the number of links for their sites. Yahoo! Search Link Update thread and Google Link Update within Webmastercentral link tools thread confirms the update for Yahoo and Google respectively.

Check your link updates in Yahoo! site Explorer for Yahoo and Google webmastertools for Google.

Mark

SEO Tags : Link Updates, Back Links, Google Webmaster tools, Yahoo Site Explorer

Google official blog has answered Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land in this topic,

Google bots by default crawl your site and index the contents. In robotstxt.org the user guide explains  about the usage of meta tags. In order to avoid crawling due to various reasons the Meta tag can be of this way,

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>

The value for content can be either NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW or both. When more than one value is given for content the value must be comma separated. The value NONE is same as the above value.

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NONE”>

The value INDEX or FOLLOW is unnecessary as the bots does the same job in default. Other valid values for CONTENT from the blog was,

• NOINDEX - prevents the page from being included in the index.
• NOFOLLOW - prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
• NOARCHIVE - prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
• NOSNIPPET - prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page.
• NOODP - blocks the Open Directory Project description of the page from being used in the description that appears below the page in the search results.
• NONE - equivalent to “NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”.

The detailed explanation is present in Google official blog.

Mark

SEO Tags: Meta Tags, Google Bots, Crawlers, Google Index

Many webmasters use site:www.site.com to watch the indexed results in the search engine. It had some problem in displaying the search results from the past weeks. The problem with display is Google does not show pages with same title or description. So on using this command Google shows only less number of results. It was a serious issue discussed in Webmasterworld forums.

So Google has replied two days back in their official blog that the issue will not affect search ranking anyway and also if you click on the link “repeat the search with omitted results included” will show the full list of the results.

Google has also said that they will keep monitoring and make sure the changes happen.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, Google search, Indexed results, Using site: command

Googles current and future sales of products to the government is given in Google searches for government work by Washington post staff.

Rob Painter, director of the Google Earth federal effort, about their government sales initiatives, said “We’re really in the beginning stages” .

Governmental sales was started by Google three years ago. Enhanced version of Google Earth is already used by the U.S. government. Google has planned to sell three products which includes “Enhanced versions of Goolge Earth, Search engines for internal agencies and a new suite of spread sheet products, e-mail and document.”

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, Government Sales, Google Earth, Rob Painter

Yahoo! search blog has announced that they are supporting Meta tag called ‘NOYDIR’ which will be a complement of ‘NOODP’ Meta tag.

Yahoo search gets information about a site both from Yahoo crawler based search results and also from Yahoo directory. Yahoo crawler based is crawled by the bots but the Yahoo directory is a human compiled one. So if there is a repetition of title or abstract that is both from crawler and Yahoo directory, Yahoo always takes the information from the human compiled one rather than the abstract or title by bots. Sometimes the abstract or title may be outdated in Yahoo directory. So if a site owner is not interested in abstract taken from Yahoo directory, the owner can use the Meta Tags for the submission.

Meta Tag : META NAME = “ROBOTS” CONTENT =”NOYDIR” or

META NAME = “Slurp” CONTENT =”NOYDIR”

Using this Meta Tag the abstract information will be taken from the bots and this announcement will make Yahoo! search more efficient.

Mark

SEO Tags : Yahoo Search, Yahoo Directory, NOYDIR Meta Tag