Yahooooooooooo!!! Glue Pages Launched In India

Glue pages are the combination of organic search results with visual images of your query from the best sites anywhere on the web.

Yahoo has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India. The Glue Pages combine organic search results on the left hand column with more visual images related to your query in the middle and right section of the page. The results contain images, videos, articles and more. Searching on Glue Pages Beta will help Users to receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the web in one topical page.

For example a search 'Laptops' returns standard search results on the left, in the middle results with images from ebay and in the end some videos. See the link http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=laptops&rd=r1&fr=sfp&glue=1

Google Facing Threat Through Cell Phones.

There is a big threat that Google has been facing. That threat is none other then but someone sitting in your pocket or purse. YES! It's your cell phone.

As more people use cell phones having tiny glass space. Google and its fellow online advertisers will have less space or what's called ad inventory, to place marketing messages for customers.
Google makes money selling ad inventory. And its ad inventory is diminished on a cell phone. As more people surf the Web on their cell phones, Google must cope with less space problem to place ads.

Yahoo! and Google Join Hands In OpenSocial Foundation

The two big online masters Yahoo! and Google have joined there hands together to support the OpenSocial developer platform for social networking sites. OpenSocial is an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.

Yahoo! has joined leading social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn to support the project, which Google has described as a non-commercial initiative that will work with external developers to enhance and improve the platform.

The list of partners include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. The most conspicuous absentee from the alliance is Facebook, which has a developer platform of its own.

Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 – A New Webpage Spider

The new version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates has been launched called Yahoo! Slurp 3.0.

The new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 recognizes the same user-agent and all robots.txt directives for 'Yahoo! Slurp,' though it'll identify itself as Slurp 3.0 in your web logs

Google Search Box Expanded to 32 words

You can now actually add much bigger queries in Google searcch box and Google will adjust the search box's size after you perform a search.

Earlier the scenario was different If you entered long queries in a Google search box, you would notice that it was difficult to edit that because Google optimized the size of the box for short queries.

Google has limited the queries to 32 words. The average number of words in a Google query was 4 at the end of 2007.

Google Sitelinks : More Valuable Search Results

Google sitelinks are designed to provide searchers with more valuable search results for their queries, rather its just the collection of links that appears below the result pages of a website. These links are linked to the main internal pages or sections of the website. The Google sitelinks are randomly and automatically chosen by Google's algorithm. Below is the snapshot of Google sitelinks.


How Website get Google Sitelinks in there Search results

1. The websites ranking at first for the keyword(s) generate the Sitelinks listing.
2. Website that are easily spiderable and have nicely structured navigation.
3. Website with fairly high natural search traffic.
4. High click through rates from the search results page.
5. Website having Useful outbound andInbound links from high quality sites.
6. Website age is several years or older.

Google Adds A New Search Box Within The Search Result Pages

Google has added a new additional search box in the search result pages that allows visitors or searchers to search within a website. There are many ‘terms’ for which you can see these additional search boxes in the result pages.

For example, when you search for term "wikipedia” in Google.com you'll get the additional search box in search result pages. See the Snapshot below