New Features In Google or Error May be!

In previous weeks Google experimented with new adword's layout in SERP's. They now appear much closer to organic results. People have seen increase click thru rate after this development, however today Google seems to start acting strangely. Previous the bluw bar on which Google displays the competition go to the end of the page, horizontally. However now Google cutting it quite before the end of the page. Here is the screen shot of the new interface. Check the screenshot



Moreover, Previously google shoes the SEarch Prefernce option just beside the search box on home page of google, But now its showing a Search setting option on top right corner.

Google SERPs' New Feature - PDF and Books!

While researching few days ago, I probably spotted some; actually two new features in Google SERP's.

One is Google showing some additional info for PDF files including Author Name, Year of Document Published, Citation And the Other Version of the document. This feature is something new for me as its not a usual case for PDF files results in Google SERP's. Here is a screen shot of one example. The good thing is that the same thing is appearing for indirectly related results like the page that contain partial information regarding the pdf version.

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One more feature I spotted recently is regarding Google Book Results in Google SERP's. Although I suspected that this is not new but then I haven't seen anything like that before so for me, its new at least.

This feature include the Author Name, Date Of Publication, Category of the book and the number of Pages. Here is a screen shot of that feature of Google SERP's.

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Google Images New Feature - Try Also!

Now it seems that Google has introduced a new feature in its Image Search. Now its showing the TRY ALSO option below the images that is related searches for that specific image. Although one more thing to notice is that Google is showing MORE FROM option that appears to grab th images from the place where its hosted rather than the website it appears. So is this the end of hot linking???

Here is an image of that new feature in Google image Search

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And don't ask me that why on the earth I was searching for cat eyes :P

New Feature By Google For link: Query!

As we all know that recently Google completely shut down its link: query. But today while doing some research I come across with this new feature or may be bug by Google.

When you use info:domain.com command in Google, it verifies a website authenticity. At the same time it also shows you some further options i.e.

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

• Show Google's cache of domain.com
• Find web pages that are similar to domain.com
• Find web pages that link to domain.com
• Find web pages from the site domain.com
• Find web pages that contain the term "domain.com"

In past, on clicking "link to" command, google shows you the links pointing to that domain by using link: query. but if you click it now, its also showing a strange code with link: query
The whole query looks like this now..

link:CODE:domain.com

One thing I noticed is the code is dedicated for each individual site. If you change the domain.com section with some code dedicated to some other site...it will shows the same results. Note that its still not showing the backlinks. Here are the screen shots of the new feature by Google

Search info:domain query first, it will give you the following result(click for enlarge)




Now Click the "link to" command(click for enlarge)

Google Image Search New Feature - Local Results Box!

Recently reported by Matt McGee at SearchEngineLand regarding Google showing local results for non local queries. Recently I did an image search and find something new(again :P)..

Google is now showing an option to see localized results for food(i haven't tries other queries, may be its for general). It is now showing a search box to enter your city name or zip code and it wills how you the images related to that city or area.



And here is another one..yes a pizza search

Backlinks VIa Google link: Operator!! Dream On Buddy...

Finally Google has stopped showing ANY backlink with legendary link: operator.

Previous it has been observed that Google has restricted to show only a chunk of evaluated back links but now its simply not showing any single backlinks evaluated or not evaluated. So now all we have is Yahoo Site Explorer and other third party tools for competitor analysis. Here are some screen shots I took for showing you guys the exactly what i mean. (Click on the images to enlarge)



Here is Another one:



And one more...


As you can see there is not one single backlink in the results, the idea of Google to stop showing the info to some third person is finally done.

Two New Features In Google SERP's

There are two new features pointed recently in Google SERP's. One is by Seobiza bout the third indent. Normally Google shows two indent for a website if it thinks that there are more than one page related tot he searched words but now its showing three.


Go here for story: Link

the other one is found be me. Its Google showing the internal links of a website after description or snippet in SERPS. Look here what i mean



Here is another one



PS: It seems that these links are termed as Mini Site Links.

No More Do-Follow At Digg!

Finally DIGG has implemented no follow tag on the comment section. Earlier it was a pure black hat technique that most people aren't aware of.

Since Digg homepage has 8 PageRank, several hundred of its internal pages got some good PageRank; even some of them got 6 Pagerank.

Basically the trick was that you have to search the old Digg story pages with high Google PageRank and then add a comment with your url in it. though it don't accept html but still the url is clickable and was do follow. But now its over dudes. You have to go for some new social book marks sites with good PR

Google New TIp - Do Not Include The Word!!

In recent days I have come across several search results where Google is showing the

Tip: These results do not include the word "WORD".

at the end of the results. Its also showing an option via which you can see the results which contain that specific results.

Question is..
Why Google is neglecting some specific word in a phrase?

Its not that the word doesn't appear cause Google is showing an option to see the results with the word included.

Here is an example(click to enlarge)

Google Enhance Its Cache Showing Feature!

Google has enhanced its cached showing feature. Instead Of showing Yellow high-Lighting's Its now showing the text in more structured manner. Here is the snap show of new enhance cache showing format.

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May be Google has update its cache features too.

Google Adword Keyword Tool Update!

Google has Updated its Google Adword Keyword Tool. It now showing the Approx Search Volume in numbers rather than in Green bar.

Here is the screen shot of old Google adword keyword tool.

And here is the new Adword Keyword Tool Snapshot

Here is the help guide to the sections showing in Google Adword Tool,

• Web traffic is influenced by seasonality, current events, and a number of other factors. The level of search volume on your keywords, therefore, is constantly fluctuating.
• Location and language targeting: If you access the Keyword Tool from within an ad group, the search traffic statistics will factor in your campaign's country and language targeting (if you target a region or city, only the country will be reflected). If you use the standalone or external Keyword Tools, your country and language selections will influence these statistics. Learn about the different variations of the Keyword Tool.
• Match type: The Keyword Tool's statistics vary depending on your selection from the Match Type drop-down menu. If you select Broad or Phrase, the tool will factor in certain variations of your keywords that could potentially trigger your ads. Learn about keyword match types.

For More Help, Here is the page, LINK.

And Hey,

Google Adowrd Keyword Tool is still showing the old Google FAVICON. RITE ??

Yahoo Search Gallery! Now Open For Public

Yahoo has opened the Yahoo Search Gallery for public. Announced at Yahoo Search Blog, Within Yahoo Search users and developers can visit the Search Gallery by clicking the "Customize" drop down from the search results page.

Now you can chose the enhancement you want in results by choosing it from Gallery. And then you can see the refine and enhance results, custom built be developers.

They give some examples too to show how it woks.

Here is the link to original story. LINK
And Here Is the link to Yahoo Search Gallery. LINK

Live Search And Wikipedia: Building Stronger Relationships!

So Live Search too is now officially addicted to Wikipedia. Blogged at there Live Search Blog by Kemp Peterson, the Program Manager of Live Search, Live Search is now enhancing the wikipedia results by including the whole first paragraph and links from table of content.

That will certainly make the Wikipeida result dominating for every single query in Live Search. Here is the image shot of how will the result from Wikipedia appears now.

Here is the link to original story. LINK

Twitter Is down!

Checking today, I have found that twitter is down. They know bout it and they are showing the message that they are fixing it. Here is an snap shot of Twitter gone down.

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Any reasons you know?

Yahoo testing Yahoo Glue Pages in Yahoo India

Yahoo has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India. Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search result page, for select search queries. The search results that trigger the special "Glue Pages" run across searches in health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance categories.

The Glue Pages combine classic search results on the left hand column with more visual information related to your query in the middle and right section of the page. The results contain images, videos, articles and more.

Here is some more detail at search engine land about Yahoo Glue Pages. Link

Developers Party By Yahoo!

Hey Developers! Want a Party to monkeying around?

Yahoo announced to introduce its SearchMonkey Project via an official Launching party that wil be hel at Yahoo! Headquarters @ URL's Cafe, 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089on 15th may, 2008.

You need to send your name, information with your company profile to get some seats there as its come first get first party. :)

Yahoo promises to developers that they get the inside scoop on SearchMonkey, can see live demos, deep-dive on the Developer Tool, and meet with there product managers and engineers over and yes FREE food and beer.

Here is the link to original story. LINK

Yahoo! Making The Search Safer..

So Yahoo still copying Google as always :)

Yahoo announce a new feature via Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo search engine will show which site may be harmful for your computer in there SERPS.
They are using McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to alert users when risky websites appear in Yahoo! Search results. Currently they are scanning three types of risk that includes

• Browser Exploits -- These are sites that can stealthily harm a user's computer or install malware simply by visiting the site. Beginning today, any such sites or pages included in McAfee's data will be removed from search results automatically.
• Dangerous Downloads -- SearchScan will display warnings next to search results for sites that offer potentially dangerous software, such as viruses, spyware or adware. Users often may be unaware that these can be passed along with the screensavers, games and other software downloads.
• Unsolicited Email -- SearchScan will alert users to scanned sites that send unsolicited emails or inappropriately share email addresses with third parties.

According to Yahoo Search Blog SearchScan will continue to evolve and improve in future.

Here is the link to original story.Link

Crawling Improvements from MSNBot

Reported at Live Search webmasters Blog, Msn/live now introduce some more improvements in MSNBot.

Now you can slow down the MSNBot if you want to, just like you can do to GoogleBot via webmaster central. You need to change settings in your robot.txt file to implement these changes.

Here is the link to the original press release. Link

Yahoo Search Update Is In Process!

Yahoo search index Update is in process!

Reported by Sharad Verma | Yahoo Search, at Yahoo Search Blog,

"Yahoo is in the process of rolling out changes to its crawling, indexing and ranking algorithm".

Here is the official statement at Yahoo Search Blog. Read Here

PageRank Is Changing!

The green bar is on move again! PageRank updation has been started.

According to Wikipedia,

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set.

Many of my clients website got an increase in there page rank in recent days. Though some of the internal pages got a decrement too.

These changes in result noted within previous week.

Anyone else got there pagerank increase or decrease?