A new Search Engine Cuil

Do you know Cuil?

Cuil (pronounced as COOL) is the Search engine launched by some Ex-Googlers and it’s really cool too. Cuil’s search results are also really relevant. 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.

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!

This would be an interesting topic for a long time now. I am sure! Google will win but who knows about the future! Best of luck to Cuil and Google too.

Cheers!

PageRank Toolbar Update is near

PR update is going on and can be visible in next few days.

This is what the Google guy, Matt Cutts stated in his blog on 24th July, 2008 -
“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.“

So, be ready to check your new updated PageRank for your websites / blogs and web directories.

My best wishes to all.
Cheers!

Google Knol : Knowledge Sharing Open

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

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.

So, I think, very soon..we can see many Knol articles in the search engine rankings for many popular keywords and phrases.

More here

Cheers!

Directories Submission Points

Hi friends,

Submission in web directories is an old and still a good way to build link popularity and search engine rankings. You can also see this recommendation in Google’s Link Schemes.

There are thousand of free and paid web directories found on internet. Also, with most of are a dead source now (not getting the submissions), sometimes it is just a waste of time to make submissions in that dead sources. I only suggest or prefer having submission in a worthful web directory which can give some relevant traffic and a stable link for the website. I always suggest – Do it manually, don’t go for any software or AUTO Submissions. I know this will take time, but this is only the right way to do submissions in a web directory.

What we need to check while web directory submission? Check these general points before doing submissions -

• Web directory shouldn’t be a dead source, first of all.
• It should be in Search engines indexing. You can check it by [index:] and [info:] commands in Google. Also check it by Yahoo! Site Explorer. It shouldn’t be a Banned Web Directory by Search engines.
• Should be relevant to your business, or should have a category for your business. Submission in a irrelevant category / directory will just worthless.
• That will be great if web directory having high PageRank.
• Make sure that the directory shouldn’t have any rel=nofollow on the links.

Go for Quality, not for Quantity.

And some more useful points -
Your site should be complete in every aspects i.e. Content and Designing before doing submissions in web directories as most of directories are not accepting incomplete websites. And, always try to use various Title and relevant Description for submissions to get more search engine rankings with more keywords. There are also directories allow you to submit deep links, so good to submit in them also.

Cheers!

Technologies behind Google ranking

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. Basically, the technologies for understanding the three components (of the search process) including the pages, the queries, and the Google users. He has explained these three components with some good examples.

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

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Blog Indexed

Now, this is what I like using WordPress blog. Within just a small time, this blog has been indexed by Google. It has been created on July 9, 2008 at 6:22 am and you can see with the below image that Google indexed it at 6:51:56 GMT.

And yes! I also have submitted the blog URL in Google Search Engine through Add URL. And it’s always good to submit your new website URL in search engines. It will just take your 5 minutes.

Thanks Google and also WordPress.

Cheers!