Cuil and Web is big

Do you know Cuil?

Cuil (pronounced as COOL) is the Search engine launched by some Ex-Googlers and I found it really cool. Search results are really relevant and a smart way of presenting the results for any search. It has the biggest index on the internet. It (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion web pages, three times more than any other search engine (mean what? Google!).

And after this announcement, Google asserted on its blog Friday that "the web is big" and Google system hits a milestone which is 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Now, lets take an example. I made a search for the keyword "SEO" for this -
Cuil has 64,639,623 results for SEO and Google have 237,000,000 for SEO

Now, you can yourself see the difference.

Google PageRank Toolbar Update July 2008

Google PageRank (PR) Toolbar July 2008 Update

Google PR Toolbar Update is here again after a visible PR update on 29th April, 2008. So, have you got the new PageRank for your websites / blog / web directories?

After reading the Matt Cutts blogs on 24th July, 2008 where he announced about this PR update -
“Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.“

We can a many threads and posts about this July PR update on many famous SEO / webmaster forums and on other webmaster / SEO blogs, however most of them are not much interested in PR now, better rankings are much more important. But today, I have analyzed many bloggers, webmasters and SEOs saying that - PR Update has been done now! with updated amount of backlinks for their sites and blogs.

But yet! I think, we can't conclude it that it has been done. I think, we should have to check for some more days. And, about my promoted sites and my blogs, there are still no changes in PageRank :)

Best of luck to all PR lovers.

Google's Knol Open Now

After several months of testing, Google has finally launched its knowledge-sharing portal called Knol where people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic.

Main points about the Knol -

• People can contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone with this site.
• Authorship - Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content.
• Moderated Collaboration - With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol article which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public.
• Strong Community tools - which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol.
• Revenue Sharing - If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.

More here

Inappropriate Google Image Search

This is what I have got eventually while searching for "fire alarms" on Google Search engine and also have tried some keywords like "firing alarms", I forgot to type alarms and got this (below) search result for the keyword "firing" from Google -



Well, have already made a report for this offensive image. But we really do not want these kinds of results from Google Search Engine.

I got 100% in an SEO quiz

I just came through this wonderful SEO cartoon quiz by AIMS.co.il and just made a try and got 100% marks in result.

100% means

You are an SEO expert!

Behind Google Rankings

Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in-charge of Google ranking team have made a new post now in Official Google blog about the technologies behind Google rankings. This is addition to the previous post which was the Introduction to Google rankings. There, he shared the philosophies behind Google ranking in the brief:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally. - they often this the "no query left behind" principle
2) Keep it simple - this simple understandable system has allowed them innovate quickly, and it shows.
3) No manual intervention - answer to Does Google manually edit its results?.

Well, the above points are the philosophies of Google rankings. But now, it's all about the technologies behind the rankings for any website in Google results .

URL to read about behind Google rankings - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html

BOSS - The next step by Yahoo!

From Yahoo! Search Blog -
"Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search."

BOSS means Build your Own Search Service

Here is the BOSS logo -



Get more information at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html and http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Warnings in Google Webmaster Tool

Hi all,

If you put the same priority levels for your URL included in the website XML sitemap; then Google Webmaster Tool can possibly give you a red marked WARNINGS which indicates the following lines -

All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important.



Now, this is the time when we also need to check the priority of the website URLs. Either we have to manage low and high priorities to the web pages included in the XML sitemap or have to set a default priority.

Little Change on Google HomePage

Hi guys,

Have you seen the change on Google HomePage. This is a little change but really very effective. Google have added a link - "Privacy" tell you about Google Privacy Policies. Previously it was "©2008 Google" which is now "© Privacy".



On this, Google Executive stated on the Official Google Blog that - "Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away - keeping the "weight" of the homepage unchanged at 28. Given that the new Privacy link fit best with legal disclaimers on the page, I looked to the copyright line. There, we dropped the word "Google" (realizing it was implied, obviously) and added the new privacy link alongside it."

SEO for Beginners

Search engine optimization is a process to make a website in a way to get high rankings in major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Ask and MSN Live on the desire keywords and key phrases relevant to the business.

Everybody wants to get good business and business inquiries through their online profile, product website or business blog and SEO can help you here. Now, if you are just new with SEO (Search engine optimisation), then just try these simple techniques for your site/blog :-

• Choose your Keywords - Think what can a user should search to find your website and try to use it in your website and web pages.
• Title - this is very important thing after keyword selection, always use Title tag for your web pages. Make a title which can present your web page clearly to your visitors and Search engines. Try to use your targeted keywords according to the web pages in Title Tag.
• META Description tag - This can also be a great help if you use META description tag in your web pages under tag.
• Directories Submission - Submit your website in the free web directories available on net.
• Link Popularity - Try to get link from other sites relevant with your business to get more backlinks. You can also exchange links. Social bookmarking, article submissions, press releases and blogs are ways to get more link popularity for your site.