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Google Warns About Noscript Element

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In a discussion on the Google Webmaster forum Googler John Mueller warns for the use of the noscript element. This element can be used in combination with Javascript in order to display information when the browser does not support scripting or it is disabled by the user.

John indicates that the use of the noscript tag suspect happens with search engines because the element in the past has been often abused by spammers.

  • Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
  • Serving different content to search engines than to users.

In 2006 it was said by a representative of Google, a noscript element that links will be followed up with Google but no further value attributes will be added.

Via: seroundtable.com .

Google Docs Real-time Collaboration

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Everyone has a Google Account, but just in case, if you do not have a Google account, the company has just launched a new site for anyone who wants to try Google Docs can do so without having an account. The exact address would docs.google.com/demo.

From this new move Google aims to capture as many users as possible and compete more strongly with Microsoft Office.

google docs demo

On opening the demo site, we would find a document that will give us some guidelines on how to start writing with Google docs. What needs to be clear is that there is an option to share or collaborate with others in Real time. The document would be available for 24 hours after its creation.

The new document comes with a link that enables you to invite others to collaborate on the issue (these users will NOT be invited to have a Google account).

When Google fails? Yahooo!

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I’ve always had this question in my mind. Which search engine do people use if Google fails?. According to the latest study of Chitika , Google users do not find what you seek try again first on Yahoo and Ask.com and then Bing.

The following graph, we can see the percentages of search engines that Google users use when they find something wrong with the Google Search:

when google fails - people look at yahoo and ask

The study took 40,000 users who searched the same and looked at where they went when the result on Google was not satisfactory or when Google was down (although that never happens). Surprisingly, the data showed that very few Google users, used Bing as first alternate, and the high regard they have to Ask, and Yahoo.

49.5% of the people searched Yahoo, the 30.29% in Ask, and only 16.4% in Bing. Numbers do look strange eh? :)

First position in Google receives double clicks than the Second

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The latest study by Chitika, the first search result on Google receives twice the clicks than the second result and three times the third.

According to data gathered in searches of Google, the first results received for 35% of clicks, the second gets 17% and third 12%. But above all that the biggest leap of visits to appear on the first page of results. The pages at # 10, the end of the first page of results, were 143% more visits than the first result of the second page # 11.

google top spot impressions

These data confirmed that SEO is most important to be on the top of the web search results. :)

Google still stronger in China

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According the reports from Statcounter.com, yesterday google.co.hk (the Google domain for Hong Kong)  had an all time high number of page visits.

google.com.hk vs baidu

The two curves represent the growing competition between search engines – Baidu, Yahoo, Bing and Google. While search engines like yahoo, bing, ask etc stand on something above 0 to 0.3% of the traffic source, Google and Baidu stand above 45% of the traffic graph.

After the update of Google moving from China (Google.cn) to Google Hong Kong (google.com.hk) Google traffic reached an all time high which crossed the Baidu traffic.

I’m sure, no matter what happens in China, People still love Google and will find more ways to use it!

Search Megaupload and Rapidshare links using Google

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google megaupload and rapidshare

We’ve all heard about these two free hosting services and they are extremely popular on the Internet. Any user can store photographs, text or songs, videos or share files instantly. They use a very simple system or sharing \ distributing. All we need to download a file from rapidshare or megaupload is a simple link but how do we find them in the database?.

These websites are not search engines so we have to find other ways to find videos, music or any other type of file uploaded by anonymous users. Lets discuss on how to find these files using Google,

The trick is simple:

If we want to find something in Megaupload, type in Google: “filename” + site: megaupload.com

If instead we want to find a Rapidshare file, we have to put Google: “filename” + site: rapidshare.com

Just change the text quoted by the keyword of the file you’re looking for, be it a band, a movie, a ebook or anything else.

You can also search by file extensions, writing something like this: “filename” + inurl: mp3 site: megaupload.com

In “file name” you know what to do. Simply change the extension from mp3 to rar, zip, avi, mpg, ogg, exe, or whatever you want. Do you have more Google search tricks? Share them below!

Video Tour of Google Office in Stockholm, Sweden

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While designing the Google office the employees wished to maintain a small-company atmosphere and leave a Swedish fingerprint on the space, all while combining several Swedish offices into a centralized location for engineers and the marketing and sales divisions.

The office is filled with everything we know to be Google, though with a bit less of the very extravagant elements the Zurich space contained. The conference rooms are themed with famous Swedish inventors like Linne, Ericsson, Nobel, and Bohlin. Several of the other rooms have unique themes as well. Google just seems like a fun company to work for, and this office doesn’t change that belief in the slightest. Plenty of places to play on different games, a great looking kitchen area, and of course many places to lounge make this Google office one of the best.

Sit back and enjoy the slideshow of pictures from Google Stockholm, Sweden office :)

Image credit: Office snapshots, do visit officesnapshots.com for more office snapshots :D

Google Text To Speech – TTS is now available

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I’ve heard and used so many tools to convert text to speech, now Google has a new Translate-to-text tool using with you can translate any text to speech instantly and get an .mp3 file of the same.

With the new Google Translate text to Speech tool, it’s now easy to translate any text to speech.

When you translate anything from the Google TTS service, you automatically will be prompted to download and listen to the text that you tried translating.

text to speech 2

Here is what you need to do in order to translate a text to speech (.mp3 file)… See what we converted from text to speech.

p.s. i’m working on making a Text-To-Speech engine, which I’m going to publish soon :) so stay tuned!!

Google goes real-time after all the socializing and partnerships!

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Bing integrated the twitter results into its search results first. And now according to Google, realtime search is now live (Whoa, they did it too)….

Google gets information from twitter, from more than a dozen new search technologies that enable us to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes each day. Google also made it official that it has now partnered with Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca — along with Twitter, which was announced a few weeks ago.

From the Google blog:

Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand. For example, in the screen shot, the big story was about GM’s stabilizing car sales, which shows under “News results.” Nonetheless, thanks to our powerful real-time algorithms, the “Latest results” feature surfaces another important story breaking just seconds before: GM’s CEO stepped down.

If you want to see real-time search first look video:

Techcrunch also has a nice write up about Google’s new realtime search technology! BUT it’s funny that they compare Google’s realtime search to the speed of light :) . You can find some screenshots, videos and more information on the latest techcrunch’s post here.