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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Here are the collection of links hot this week in the search market,
Hot On My blog:
Major Changes In Yahoo SERP’s - Yahoo!! did some marjot changes in its SERP’s, Without any priour notice letting everyone wonder whats happening.
Another CashBack Live Search Promotion - Microsoft announced another cashback Live search promotion :-).
SERP’s For Gmail 302 Hijacked - Looks like, 302 Attacks are back again .. this time it was no one other then gMail itself which was 302 Hijacked into Google SERP’s.
Google Redirects IP Based Data Center Searches To Google.com - Google redirected its IP based Datacenter Searches to Google.Com
Google Insights Search Launched - Again a Good news for Advertisers and Marketers, Google launched Insights Search.
Case Sensitive SERP’s, at Google ? - I Bellieve this is not new thing, Looks like soon everyone will start something similar with almost every SERP’s.
Google AdWords Schedules Downtime - Google AdWords will be unavailable on August 9th between 10AM and 2PM PDT on Saturday, August 9th, from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PDT.
Google Sold Performics To French Company - Finally Google SOLD Performics the SEO Division of Double Click to a French Company.
WebPosition Ranking Software Blocked By Google - Looks like Google had finally done something about this tool.
Major Updates In Google SERP’s For August - Google did major updates for August. Hope you all guys will be happy with this Update 
Google Not Crawling Custom Domains Based On Blogspot - Looks like the last date Google Bot crawled Custom Domains based on blogspot on 30th July 2008. This Might be a Bud as the robots.txt is unreadable for crawlers and webmasters don’t have any acess to edit this.
Now AdSense Features With DoubleClick Cookies - Google Blog announced some key enhancements that Google Adsense will now be offering a better experience for users and better value for advertisers and publishers, with the help of the technology they have acquired with DoubleClick.
Yahoo!! To Give Users Option About Choosing Custom Ads - Yahoo!! Will be allowing its users to customize advertising on its website by the end of August.
Hot on other Blogs this week:
Advertisers Are Happy But Scared Over New Google and DoubleClick Cookie Tracking.
Searching For Olympics News And Video.
StumbleUpon is Finally Removing the 200 Friend Fan Limit.
SEO Have A Bright Future According To Google Insights.
New Features at Mixx - Nested Comments, Domain Endorsing & More.
How relevant is Cuil?.
Google Upgrades Webmaster Central to Handle More Sitemap Types.
Well guys thats all for this week, I will try to give more next week
2 much tired as of now, Was not able to sleep last night .. 
Some personal probs … Gonna have a beer now 
, Yummmmmmmmmmy !!
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
This week was Gud enuff as compared to the last week … however the search market was like cook this week with the launch of Cuil.com and everyone was busy talking about it …
Here are the hot topics this week on My Blog:
Google No-More Interested in Digg - We had a discussion earlier this week on Google to buy Digg for $200 Million, Seems like Google had walked away from this deal.
Cuil Goes Offiline - The new search engine Cuil.com, which was believed to be a new competitor for Google went offline just after the few hours of its release. Seems like it got lil-bit more traffic then expected !!
Yahoo!! Improved Search Add Performance Report - The Yahoo Search Marketing Blog announced they have improved the Ad Performance Reports to include a few new columns.
Google Going To Do Some Changes In Its Design Of Search Listing Pages ? - Some wired images in Google Search.
I Did a post, Yes, Backlinks are The Most Important Factor for Organic Rankings, I saw a post from Barry, Where Barry said a post from Shimon Sandler is controversial. I’m sure Barry is aware of the fact that Backlinks are really one of the most important factors for organic rankings.
Tool To Find PR Of All The Pages Of Your Website - Sometimes your internal pages have more PR then that of the homepage. Now the Question arise how to findout which page have how much PageRank ?
Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Lots of Improvements - Delicious has now relaunched and moved under Delicious.com with lots of new Improvements.
New Favicon For Google Analytics - So finally after the suggestion from Michael Gray, Google had finally changed its favicon for Google Analytics.
Google To Provide More Transparency In Customized Search Results - Google had officially announced a new feature in its Google Web Search that will help a user to understand how there search results are already customized.
Google Testing “Related” Links Under Individual Search Listings - Google experiments are going on, This time another new experiment Related Links under Individual Search Listings.
Google To Add Titles To Web-Pages With Missing Titles in their SERPs - Seems like Google is going to add Automatic relevant Title’s according to the content of the page into its search Index.
Here are the hot topics this week on Other Blogs:
Microsoft Live Gets Redesigned.
How Cuil Is The SEO Industry?.
5 Powerful Local Search Marketing Tactics: My SMX Local 2008 Presentation.
An Engaging Collection Of Links - This Month In SEO - 7/08.
Google Knol - Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright.
Google Suggests Disabled Dating Clubs For Cheap Dates.
Google AdWords Dropping Average Position From Content Network?.
Google AdWords Search updated its desgin.
Google Webmaster Tools May Report 404 Errors that Don’t Exist.
StumbleUpon Ratings Can Now Be Seen in Yahoo Results.
Reddit & Digg Launch Mobile Versions.
Google Analytics Has Bugs Too - Some Google Analytics reports have come in that confirm that some people cannot log into their accounts due to redirect issues. Additionally, people have seen errors that the tracking code is not installed on their site (even though it is). Finally, there are reports of duplicate cities in the reporting.
Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard - Google have finally released a new Froogle Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your Froogle impressions, clicks and feed items.
Thats all of this week, If you wan’t to suscribe to a specific category on my blog then this post will be helpful. Will post more Next Week 
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
This week was like a bad week with a bad ending !! There were many bomb blast Eight Blast at Bangalore and on the other day 17 Blasts at Ahmedabad Killing over 40-45 peoples and more then 50 injured. The situation is still critical and at th time of writing this post 3-4 more bombs have been discovered and difused.
About Hot This Month On This Blog:
Yahoo!! Introduced SiteLinks - After Google its Yahoo!! This time. It is not necessary if u have SiteLinks with Google then you will get them with Yahoo!! and Live.
Google Gift - Google have Special Gift for you if you are a Advertiser for more then 6Years.
Google Bot Can Read Upto 76 Characters Of A Title Tag - According to the latest experiment I did on TitleTags, Google can read Upto 76 characters of a Title Tag.
Google to Buy Digg for $200 million - Google is going to buy Digg for $200 Million.
Yahoo to Close Its Ambassador Program - Yahoo!! is going To discontinue Its Ambassador Program as on September 30, 2008.
Pagerank and Backlinks are now finally Updated !! - Good news for all Pagerank Lovers ..
Google Updated Its Cached Page Design - In this new feature they have Removed iFrame from the page. I liked this new design in personal as this is neat and clean !!
Microsoft Introduced Browser Rank - Seems like Google PageRank Killer has arrived, Microsoft announced its new tool something similar to Google PageRank called BrowseRank.
Microsoft Becomes Official Apache Sponsor - Microsoft has agreed to provide monetary and technical support to the Apache Software Foundation, an open source effort that promotes community-built tools and services.
Here are the other topics hot in other blogs this week:
Google Launches Knol: Project Wikipedia
Google Maps Now Has Walking Directions
That’s all of this week, Will be posting more next week
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Okay so here are the Search Buzz for this Week !! Here are the list of stories hot in my blog this week:
Google Trifecta:
For those who missed Google Trifecta: Webmaster Tools, Analytics, Website Optimizer. The archive for google trifecta is now available to download.
Winners for SearchMonkey Developer Challenge:
Yahoo!! has finally announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. Check the Winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.
Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature:
Ever heard of Google’s like and don’t like feature ? Something like DIGG .. a system where you can choose and customize your own SERP’s ? Check out Google Expands Edit My Search Results Feature ?.
Major Updates in Google SERP’s:
Many webmasters at DigitalPoint have reported Some major traffic loss in there websites. Many Webmasters reported that they lost getting traffic from there old keywords and getting traffic from some new keywords.
Google is verifying its local search results:
I got ranked #1 for Search Engine Optimization Delhi and wrote how to rank for local search at google. The time i made that posting there were 10 Results from Local now there is just one result thats me .. is it because they are removing the listings they are not able to contact ?
Here are the other topics hot in other blogs this week:
Google Shares its Ranking Technologies:
The official Google Blog had a post about the technologies that are behind the Google ranking, following up from a post about how Google ranks results.
Google AdWords Deep Targeting:
This week, the Google AdWords team announced that you can include keywords and placements in a single campaign type instead of creating separate campaigns. Doing this “combine[s] the benefits of contextual targeting with placement targeting,” according to Google.
Lawsuit for Google AdWords over Parked Domains:
While Google AdWords made strides this week, a lawyer is suing Google over a little more than $100 because he had AdSense on parked domains. Um, yeah.
So thats all for this week will update more next week Happy weekend I have to go outside to check if my car is fixed or not .. LOL .. hehe
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