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Mar
09

Google’s Real Time Search Future

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PubSubHubbub in Action

The way Google indexes your web sites might be changing soon.

Rather than relaying solely on the crawling method, they will also be indexing your content instantly.  This means as soon as you create a new web page, it will be up on Google in seconds, not days or weeks.   This is great news for small time web site publishers, because they can get their content on Google even faster, and build up their own audiences too.

What is PuSH? This all goes back to a Google developed project called, PubSubHubbub (PuSH for short).  It is a real time syndication protocol that will notify any group, service or company of your latest updates.  It kind of works the way a Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feed works.

To help explain, check out this video put together by the guys behind PuSH:

How Does PuSH Affect Me? Now chances are Google might not stop crawling links all together, because they would need a way to find your PuSH information.  However, over time this would make content indexing and searching a much  richer, faster and efficient task to do.

Can I Play With PuSH Now? Yes!  Go check out this page to learn more about this simple, open, web-hook-based protocol:

I do have to say, this does sound very interesting.  I am also very excited to hear that Google is looking to make content submission and crawling a much easier and better process.

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Oct
05

20 Ear Entertaining Bookmarks

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Now where does music play into the drum solo that is web hosting or web site development?  Well, many of us spend our webmastering time listening to our favorite tunes.  The Web has many great musical sites to keep you entertained.

For your browsing pleasure, here are this month’s best musical bookmarks:

  • Last.fm
    Last.fm recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to.
  • imeem.com
    An online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their musical tastes
  • BeeMP3.com
    BeeMP3 is a music search engine for locating an mp3-audio files over the Internet.
  • Playlist.com
    Build your favorite playlist online!
  • JustHearIt.com
    Search the web for any song in the world!
  • Jango.com
    Social Internet Radio
  • ScreenTunes.com
    Find out which movie you might have heard a particular song in.
  • Blip.fm
    Create your own music station
  • TheRadio.com
    Search for the genre or artist, and start listening to great tunes!
  • The Hype Machine
    Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love and it all ends up there.
  • Dirpy.com
    Convert your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!
  • boostermp3.com
    Listen to millions of songs!
  • fizy.com
    An easy way to find songs and music videos…
  • Skreemr.com
    The World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!
  • LyricRat.com
    Naming that tune in 140 characters or less…
  • JustHearIt.com
    Hear any song in the world!
  • Rifflet.com
    A homepage for unfinished songs
  • AmieStreet.com
    The best place to discover new music!
  • funnel.fm
    With funnel, its possible to make playlists of your favorite music and listen to the playlists your friends make.
  • Bonus: PremiumBeat.com
    Royalty free music downloads from the premiumbeat.com production music library.  Great resource for finding music for video or audio podcasts.

Have another favorite musical or audio related web site that didn’t make it onto the list, or are you a big fan of one of the choices above?  Be sure to share in the comments, because we would love to hear your feedback either way – just promise you will not feel the urge to sing it to us ;)

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Aug
04

Google PageRank update August ‘07 on the way

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Most of you eager webmasters must be waiting for the Pagerank update this month. This update was expected on July, but the signs have been showing from day one of August 07. Here are few tools to checkup Page rank, some in different Google Datacenters for your websites.

Ae4r SEO Pagerank Tool – Ajax
Digg Pagerank – Many Datacenters
Live Pagerank
SEOchat Pagerank lookup – Max 100
iWebtools MultiRank
Pagerank.us
Bulk Pagerank Checker – Max 20
Display Pagerank
SEOopen Pagerank

Personally, I was really happy to know that iTauro took a direct dive of PageRank 0 to Pagerank 6, I had recieved few queries regarding this too. I want to tell everyone that this was not any SEO technique but because on the last PR update our pages where down and whole site was experiencing downtime, so the Rank crashed from 4-6. Though, I am happy that Google recognized out true iTauro’s true potential ;) .

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Jul
27

Wikipedia-Wikia plans Open Source Search Engine, rival Google ?

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Recently Reuters reported “Wikipedia Plans to Rival Google”.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.

“If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers,” said Wales, chairman of San Mateo, California-based Wikia. “I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome.”

But this is not something very new, in December, last year (more…)

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Sep
22

AdSense for search results on your site

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Publishers using AdSense for search results on your siteAdSense for search now have the option to open search results within their own websites. By adding an additional set of search results code to your page, you can display Google search results framed within your own site. This new option will help you blend AdSense for search into your site even further. You’ll also have the added advantage of keeping users on your site while still offering them the useful information available through Google search.

The new search results option is available during the AdSense Setup. Once you’ve chosen AdSense for search as your product and are customizing your search box and results, just choose the box marked Open results within my own site.

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