NEW RELEASES by GOOGLE:
Google (GOOG), which has quietly released a new software app called Google Media Server.
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Google Site Search
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Google - Yahoo! Deals
Google - Yahoo! Deals
Yahoo on Wednesday sent a letter to its shareholders justifying its deal with Google, saying it will enhance the company's profitability and provide more shareholder value than the offer put forth by Microsoft to invest in Yahoo's search business.
The deal with Google will generate US$250 million to $450 million in incremental operating cash flow for Yahoo in the first year, Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang wrote in the joint letter.
LATEST GOOGLE - YAHOO! MONTHLY REPORT:
Together, Google, with a 61.8% share and Yahoo, with 20.6%, own 82.4% of the U.S. search market, according to comScore's latest monthly report.
Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo in February for $44.6 billion. When Yahoo held out for more than the software giant was willing to pay, Microsoft withdrew an increased bid of $47.5 billion in early May and proposed buying Yahoo's search business for $9 billion a month later.
Shares of the world's largest software maker are down 22 percent this year, sales of Windows software are slowing, and an attempt to buy Yahoo! Inc. flopped. And Google Inc. is widening its lead over Microsoft in Internet searches, leaving Ballmer with a case of ``chronic Google envy,'' according to Jane Snorek, an analyst at Minneapolis-based First American Funds.
source:
www.bloomberg.com
www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/
Yahoo on Wednesday sent a letter to its shareholders justifying its deal with Google, saying it will enhance the company's profitability and provide more shareholder value than the offer put forth by Microsoft to invest in Yahoo's search business.
The deal with Google will generate US$250 million to $450 million in incremental operating cash flow for Yahoo in the first year, Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang wrote in the joint letter.
LATEST GOOGLE - YAHOO! MONTHLY REPORT:
Together, Google, with a 61.8% share and Yahoo, with 20.6%, own 82.4% of the U.S. search market, according to comScore's latest monthly report.
Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo in February for $44.6 billion. When Yahoo held out for more than the software giant was willing to pay, Microsoft withdrew an increased bid of $47.5 billion in early May and proposed buying Yahoo's search business for $9 billion a month later.
Shares of the world's largest software maker are down 22 percent this year, sales of Windows software are slowing, and an attempt to buy Yahoo! Inc. flopped. And Google Inc. is widening its lead over Microsoft in Internet searches, leaving Ballmer with a case of ``chronic Google envy,'' according to Jane Snorek, an analyst at Minneapolis-based First American Funds.
source:
www.bloomberg.com
www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/
Robots Exclusion Protocol for Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft
Robots Exclusion Protocol for Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft
Common REP Directives
The following are all the major REP features currently implemented by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!. Each of these directives can be specified to be applicable for all crawlers or for specific crawlers by targeting them to specific user-agents, which is how any crawler identifies itself. Each of us also supports Reverse DNS based authentication of our crawler, and you can use this validate the identity of any crawlers claiming a particular user-agent.
1. Robot.txt Directives
| DIRECTIVE | IMPACT | USE CASE(s) |
| Disallow | Tells a crawler not to crawl your site or parts of your site -- your site's robots.txt still needs to be crawled to find this directive, but the disallowed pages will not be crawled. | 'No crawl' pages from a site. This directive in the default syntax prevents specific path(s) of a site from crawling. |
| Allow | Tells a crawler the specific pages on your site you want indexed so you can use this in combination with Disallow. If both Disallow and Allow clauses apply to a URL, the most specific rule - the longest rule - applies. | This is useful in particular in conjunction with Disallow clauses, where a large section of a site is disallowed, except a small section within it. |
| $ Wildcard Support | Tells a crawler to match everything from the end of a URL -- large number of directories without specifying specific pages. | 'No Crawl' files with specific patterns, for eg., files with certain filetypes that always have a certain extension, say pdf; etc. |
| Sitemap Location | Tells a crawler where it can find your sitemaps. | Point to other locations where feeds exist to point the crawlers to the site's content. |
2. HTML META Directives
These directives can either be placed in the HTML of a page or in the HTTP header for non-HTML content like PDF, video, etc. using an X-Robots-Tag. The X-Robots-Tag mechanism allows these directives to be available for all types of documents -- HTML or otherwise. If both forms of the tag, HTML META and X-Robots-Tag in the header are present, the most restrictive one applies.
| DIRECTIVE | IMPACT | USE CASE(s) |
| NOINDEX META Tag | Tells a crawler not to index a given page. | Don't index the page. This allows pages that are crawled to be kept out of the index. |
| NOFOLLOW META Tag | Tells a crawler not to follow a link to other content on a given page. | Prevent publicly writeable areas from being abused by spammers looking for link credit. By NOFOLLOW, you let the robot know that you are discounting all outgoing links from this page. |
| NOSNIPPET META Tag | Tells a crawler not to display snippets in the search results for a given page. | Present no abstract for the page on search results. |
| NOARCHIVE META Tag | Tells a search engine not to show a "cached" link for a given page. | Do not make a copy of the page available to users from the search engine cache. |
| NOODP META Tag | Tells a crawler not to use a title and snippet from the Open Directory Project for a given page. | Do not use the ODP (Open Directory Project) title and abstract for this page in Search. |
source : ysearchblog
Yahoo! Google Deal! News
YAHOO - GOOGLE DEAL
Today, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. In addition, we will work to enable interoperability between our respective instant messaging services allowing users better, broader communication online.
It is important to say what this agreement is not:
* This is not a merger. Rather, we are merely providing access to our advertising technology to Yahoo! through our AdSense program.
* This does not remove a competitor from the playing field. Yahoo! will remain in the business of search and content advertising, which gives the company a continued incentive to keep improving and innovating. Even during this agreement, Yahoo! can use our technology as much or as little as it chooses.
* This does not prevent Yahoo! from making similar arrangements with others. This arrangement is not exclusive, meaning that Yahoo! could enter into similar arrangements with other companies.
* This does not increase Google's share of search traffic. Yahoo! will continue to run its own search engine and advertising programs, and the agreement will not increase Google's share of search traffic.
* This does not let Google raise prices for advertisers. Google does not set the prices manually for ads; rather, advertisers themselves determine prices through an ongoing competitive auction. We have found over years of research that an auction is by far the most efficient way to price search advertising and have no intention of changing that.
source: googleblog.blogspot.com
Today, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. In addition, we will work to enable interoperability between our respective instant messaging services allowing users better, broader communication online.
It is important to say what this agreement is not:
* This is not a merger. Rather, we are merely providing access to our advertising technology to Yahoo! through our AdSense program.
* This does not remove a competitor from the playing field. Yahoo! will remain in the business of search and content advertising, which gives the company a continued incentive to keep improving and innovating. Even during this agreement, Yahoo! can use our technology as much or as little as it chooses.
* This does not prevent Yahoo! from making similar arrangements with others. This arrangement is not exclusive, meaning that Yahoo! could enter into similar arrangements with other companies.
* This does not increase Google's share of search traffic. Yahoo! will continue to run its own search engine and advertising programs, and the agreement will not increase Google's share of search traffic.
* This does not let Google raise prices for advertisers. Google does not set the prices manually for ads; rather, advertisers themselves determine prices through an ongoing competitive auction. We have found over years of research that an auction is by far the most efficient way to price search advertising and have no intention of changing that.
source: googleblog.blogspot.com
Google: GMAIL Labs: New Features Added!
GOOGLE GMAIL LABS Features:
register for a gmail account to get the features free: mail.google.com
source: google
- Gmail has a new look on the iPhone browser
- More friends are more fun. Gmail welcomes your AIM® friends.
- Colored labels
- Group chat
- New emoticons
- Free IMAP
- View as slideshow
- Increased attachment limit-- 20 MB!
- It's a Gmail party and everyone is invited!
- Get mail from other accounts
- Embarrassment-reducing new message notifications
- Forward all
- Chat even when your friends are offline
- Get Gmail on your mobile phone
- Voicemail
- Reply by chat
- A picture's worth a thousand words
- Vacation auto-responder
- Contact groups
- View as HTML
- Shortcuts on the right
- Virus scanning is here!
- Export contacts
- Auto-save
- Get to Gmail from any web page
- Customized 'From:' addresses
- Free POP access and automatic forwarding
- An application for Macs
- Import Contacts
- Signature options
register for a gmail account to get the features free: mail.google.com
source: google
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