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Google Search Ranking Secrets Revealed

Wouldn't it be great to understand exactly how Google decides to rank websites? And wouldn't it be even better if the information on Google search rankings came from a true ''insider'' at Google? Well if the Google blog is to be believed, the company has begun an effort to do just that. Udi Manber, a Vice President of Engineering at Google is part of the team called 'Search Quality'. Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. That is, when you type a search query into the search box at Google and hit enter, the Search Quality team is responsible to decide within a fraction of a second which among the billions of pages on the web to display, and in what order.

Google Desktop Search Beta

Desktop search -- the ability to index and query the contents of your PC's hard disk quickly and easily -- is one of the hottest topics in computing at the moment: after all, who hasn't bemoaned the failings of Windows' built-in search tool? Now, one of the biggest beasts in the Internet search jungle has turned its attention to your local storage: Google has launched a beta version of its desktop search tool, which is free to download here. We've been using the program avidly since it was released: here are our first impressions.

Google VisualRank for Image Search

Google researchers are claiming that a newly developed approach to visual search may do for image searching what PageRank did for text search. "The research paper, 'PageRank for Product Image Search,' is focused on a subset of the images that the giant search engine has cataloged because of the tremendous computing costs required to analyze and compare digital images. To do this for all of the images indexed by the search engine would be impractical, the researchers said. Google does not disclose how many images it has cataloged, but it asserts that its Google Image Search is the 'most comprehensive image search on the Web.'"

Google Gadgets, an open-source, stand-alone app that runs gadgets from Google Desktop and the Universal iGoogle repository, closes the widest gap between Google Desktop's Linux version and its Mac and Windows cousins Kernel release: 2.6.26-rc5,

Google Gadgets, an open-source, stand-alone app that runs gadgets from Google Desktop and the Universal iGoogle repository, closes the widest gap between Google Desktop's Linux version and its Mac and Windows cousins

Google Site Search Taps Power of the Cloud to Improve Search for Business Websites

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced Google Site Search(TM), a service that provides quality search to any website with the flexibility of cloud computing. The new service, hosted by Google, allows site owners to quickly implement search functionality that is familiar and useful to their visitors. At the same time, site owners can customize Google Site Search to account for the unique nature of their site and their content.

Google Site Search Taps Power of the Cloud to Improve Search for Business Websites

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced Google Site Search(TM), a service that provides quality search to any website with the flexibility of cloud computing. The new service, hosted by Google, allows site owners to quickly implement search functionality that is familiar and useful to their visitors. At the same time, site owners can customize Google Site Search to account for the unique nature of their site and their content.

Google Launches Site Search for SMB Enterprises

Google Site Search uses synonyms and biasing to make searches relevant on Web sites for small and midsize businesses. Google says the new features in Site Search will improve sales. Site Search is a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition. An analyst says the new indexes could also improve Google's main search tool.

Google Offers Site Search for SMBs

Google Site Search uses synonyms and biasing to make searches relevant on Web sites for small and midsize businesses. Google says the new features in Site Search will improve sales. Site Search is a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition. An analyst says the new indexes could also improve Google's main search tool.

Google Offers Site Search for SMBs

Google Site Search uses synonyms and biasing to make searches relevant on Web sites for small and midsize businesses. Google says the new features in Site Search will improve sales. Site Search is a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition. An analyst says the new indexes could also improve Google's main search tool.

Google Launches Site Search for SMB Enterprises

Google Site Search uses synonyms and biasing to make searches relevant on Web sites for small and midsize businesses. Google says the new features in Site Search will improve sales. Site Search is a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition. An analyst says the new indexes could also improve Google's main search tool.

Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness

Google announced this week that their Google Earth application can now be used from the browser, instead of having to download and install the desktop application. "Google also launched an JavaScript API that lets you interact with the globe, draw markers, add layers or integrate with Google Maps. 'The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you embed the full power of Google Earth and its 3D rendering capabilities into your web pages.' Google LatLong blog announced that each Google Maps mashup can take advantage of the new 3D view by adding a single line of code. 'Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you'll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change how we view the world.'"

Google Tries Focusing On Image Search

Google has a pretty reliable algorithm for determining page rank on text searches. All sorts of attempts are made to game the system, by both legitimate and unscrupulous Search Engine Optimization schemes alike, but those strategies always seem to fail in the long run. But put a search query into Google Images, especially with safe-search turned off, and you'll get a bizarre assortment of pictures to look at. That's because image searches generally just comb through the associated text appended to images. It's the reason why if you're an ornithologist looking for pictures of birds with bright blue feet, you might see a different sort of boobies if you search for them. Now Google says it's got a software solution to more closely align Image Search Page Rank with reality.

Google rebrands Custom Search Business Edition as Google Site Search

Mountain View, Calif.—Google announced Tuesday that it has rebranded its Custom Search Business Edition enterprise search product as Google Site Search. Part of the reason for the change was to streamline the product name.

Flash Search Being Enabled By Google, Yahoo; Images/Video Still Not Searchable

In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will be available to search engines, reports InfoWorld. Pages containing a Flash .SWF file will be returned in a search. Google has already implemented this, while Yahoo, ever the laggard, will enable Flash search in a future version, whenever that comes out.

Google launches Desktop for Linux

Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux, in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop.

SearchOk a unique meta search engine

SearchOk a unique meta search engine - SniperSoft has now launched new fully customizable meta search engine tool SearchOk. You will be able to use a variety of tool in order to fully cater this search program to your search needs; you will be under full control over the information that you are interested in. SearchOk is a desktop application targeted at specialized search. SearchOK is able to search over 2,000 + search engines and websites simultaneously cutting down on the amount of unnecessary information that many search engines find. SearchOK 2.

Google Releases Desktop Gadgets for Linux

mstrom writes "Google announced it has ported its Google Desktop Gadgets platform to Linux, making it the first cross-platform [desktop] gadgets framework. In a sign that Google is fully embracing the open source model, it admits the product is not feature-complete and has open up the code base hosted on Google Code 'to give everyone a chance to tinker with the code powering the gadgets.' According to Google: "Gadget support is not just a single feature, but rather an entire platform for miniature applications.'"

Google's Mayer Talks Image Ads in Search

On Bloomberg Radio this week, Google Search exec Marissa Mayer was asked how Google justifies blowing off the $200 million per year the company claims it could make from text ads on its image search results. Her response, "Ads should match the results." She said if Google were to run ads in Image Search, they would likely be image ads. She also said attention would be paid to the relevance, user experience, and types of interaction with image search.

Microsoft loses U.S. search users to Google and Yahoo

Microsoft lost Internet search users in the United States to Google and former takeover target Yahoo last month, research firm ComScore said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, handled 8.5 percent of queries in May, down from 9.1 percent the month before, Reston, Va.-based ComScore said Thursday in a statement. Google extended its lead to 61.8 percent, and Yahoo grew to 20.6 percent, ComScore said. The companies are vying for a bigger piece of the $41 billion online advertising market. Microsoft's talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion ended last week, around the time Yahoo struck a deal to show some Google ads on its search pages. Microsoft's proposal would have included an $8 billion investment in Yahoo. Google handled 61.

Google Earth in the browser is fast, but ugly

Google today sped ahead in the web search domain once again with the release of the Google Earth API. Yes, the recent improvements to Live Maps were impressive, but today the search giant has put Google Earth into the browser. Microsoft made this move first, completely disregarding Google's client release of Google Earth, with its Virtual Earth API and browser plug-in. Google's Windows-only release today seems to focus on 3D, and speed. The performance is noticeably superior to Microsoft's, but there are still obvious kinks that need to be worked out.

ISYS: Desktop Search Engine - Enterprise Search Tool

ISYS:desktop 8 is an enterprise-class desktop search tool designed to enable search, navigation and discovery across everything from PCs to large networks. Supporting 30 languages and 150 file formats, ISYS:desktop ensures you spend less time looking for information and more time working with it.

ISYS: Desktop Search Engine - Enterprise Search Tool

ISYS:desktop 8 is an enterprise-class desktop search tool designed to enable search, navigation and discovery across everything from PCs to large networks. Supporting 30 languages and 150 file formats, ISYS:desktop ensures you spend less time looking for information and more time working with it.

Google launches Google Site Search

is today announcing a series of improvements to its midrange custom search service for websites. As reported by TechCrunch, Google's Custom Search Business Edition has been rebranded Google Site Search and is intended for organisations that want to add

Google Desktop 1.5.0.1243 Searches Your Email, Files, Music, Photos, And More

Google Desktop is a desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your Mac and from the web. Desktop makes searching your own email, files, music, photos, and more as easy as searching the web with Google.

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i - Kronikmedia, a leading independent website Design Company based in London have launched a new search engine marketing and Ecommerce blog that offers up to date search engine marketing advice to businesses small or large. The Search engine marketing blog is regularly updated with new articles and practical search engine marketing and ecommerce advice that can help businesses understand the core search engine marketing concepts and increase sales and lead for their website. Search engine marketing is un0doubtably the most cost effective form of marketing available for businesses and offers a high return on investment. The blog has been set up to promote better understanding of search engine marketing and ecommerce principles.

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