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Funny: Microsoft Admits MSNbot is Slow !!

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We all know that Bing, the search engine from Microsoft indexes web pages at a slower rate than most of the other search engines (G and Y !! for instance).

But it’s interesting to note that even Microsoft admits the truth about their MSNbot 2.0 which they introduced in November 2009.

Brett Yount, Program Manager @ Bing Webmaster Center replies to the question put forward by an Indian webmaster about only one page of his site being indexed at Bing webmaster community forum.

See his reply in the below screen shot.

Bing MSNbot slow

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow

It’s indeed very much true that Bing indexing is too slow and never indexes a site properly.The good example to quote here would be our Techrena itself.

See these screen shots:

Google shows that it has indexed about 125 pages of Techrena.net

Google Indexing Techrena Bing Indexing: Indexed only 9 pages, out of which 3 are sitemaps !! and this has been static for more than 2 months now.

Bing Techrena Indexing

Perhaps it’s the time Microsoft should really think about increasing the indexing capability of MSNbot (for including in Bing).Are they listening??

via SE RoundTable

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“Near me now” On Google Mobile Homepage

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Google has just added a new feature called “Near me now” that lets mobile users find the business or services that are nearer to your current location.This uses your current location via phone’s GPS for search results that will be confined to area in and around you.

Mobile users can find this “Near me now” link just below the Google mobile homepage, when you click on the link, it’ll show a list of categories like restaurants, bars, ATMs etc. which are nearer to you.You can also find more details like how the service and menu would be in a restaurant for instance even before you enter the restaurant.This is possible via "Explore right here" option available.

Near Me Now in Google iPhone- Android

Clicking on “Browse more categories” gives you access to the various business categories listings under Google’s local search.

This new feature is currently available in US only for iPhone or Android-powered mobile devices.You must have enabled my location feature of your phone.

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Now You Can Chat On Google Translator Toolkit

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Google has added ‘Chat’ feature which allows you to chat with your friends in Gmail, right from the Translator Toolkit.

The chat would be same as that you’d normally see in your Gmail (web-based), with an ability to be ‘invisible’ to your friends(Note that Invisible mode is also available in web based talk gadget based services like Gmail).Just like Wave, this toolkit also is touted for collaborative work but between people whose languages differ.

 

 

Chat Inside Translator Toolkit

[Image: Official Google Blog]

To enable chat inside Translator Toolkit, go to Translator Toolkit settings, and you can toggle chat between ‘on ‘and ‘off’.

Google Translator Toolkit Chat Settings

There are many other improvements in Google Translator Toolkit, which you must check on your own, go visit Translator Toolkit

Via Official Google blog

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Google India Search Quality Team Wants To Review Your Website !!

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Google India Search Quality team has called for a very interesting campaign called Google India Site Clinic, this is a real chance for webmasters to get their site assessed by Google Pros.

According to the campaign plan, interested webmasters can submit their websites to the Google Site Clinic.The Search Quality team will analyze the websites submitted and will provide advice on improving the accessibility and other factors that will in turn affect the visibility of your website in Google search results.

The Requirements:

If you are the owner of the website that you want to submit to Test Clinic, you must first have a verified Google Webmaster tools account associated with your site(If you haven’t yet, get an account from this page)

The website to be submitted must be in accordance with the Webmaster quality guidelines.

The Dates:

The Site Clinic will accept websites for analysis from Jan 6, 2010 to Jan 20, 2010.

The Benefits:

  • You get a chance to get your website reviewed and hear suggestions right from the Google employees.After all who else can give you better suggestions to make your website more Google friendly than the ‘big G’ guys??
  • If your website is worth for showing other sites to follow, your site may feature as an example in the future posts of Google India blog under Site Clinic campaign.

The Procedure:

To submit your website for Site Clinic, just fill out this Google Docs form.

Google India Site Clinic For WebMasters

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Download WordPress 2.9.1 Release

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WordPress has released upgrade to its latest version 2.9, with WordPress 2.9.1 which has been made available for download just few hours ago at the time this post being written.

This new upgrade includes fixes for the minor issues with the last released version of this blogging software.

 

 

 

wordpress 2.9.1 screen shot

Excerpt from the WordPress official blog post about updates in the version 2.9.1

This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.

Download WordPress 2.9.1 (Zip file size: 2.2 MB)

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To Upgrade automatically, login to your WordPress based blog’s dashboard and go to Tools->Upgrade menu and choose ‘Upgrade Automatically’.

Google Doodle For Newton B’Day

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Google is celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday this time with and animated Doodle on its homepage, something that is very rare, as we don’t see animated Doodles on Google usually (this might be the first such thing, according to Amit )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, that’s a great work which reminds us of the Newton-Apple story quickly into our minds.It’s 366th birthday anniversary of the genius.

BTW, if you observe, this animation is via just a JavaScript stuff, folks.

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Google Nexus One Preview Video

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Google Nexus one phone the going to be ‘The first biggest tech product launch from a major company’ in 2010, is scheduled to be in Android Press Conference.

Of course, we have had  lot of leaked pictures, leaked web pages and now it’s the turn of the videos.As you can easily find out, plenty of videos have been making way to video sharing sites like YouTube, Dailymotion etc. One such video (the longest possible video, I’d say) which caught my attention was this one from Dailymotion, the duration of the video is 09:59 .

The video shows a Nexus One phone(?) with French interface being explored by an enthusiast showcasing its various features:

Note: The video, however has no audio

The shorter versions of the same video are also available on YouTube.Can’t wait it till Jan 5th ?? 🙂

Google PageRank Update

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Google PageRank Update Dec 31, 2009:

When just I finished my celebrations for the new year 2010 and opened this blog in Firefox Google Toolbar, I noticed this PageRank update which has underwent rather silent this time,  (It’s the Nexus One that has set the internet buzzing even before it’s release off late) was on.

techrena PageRank jan 2010

Techrena.net PageRank has however been updated to PR 2, ( We lost our PR2 in the last PR update), so that means we got back to PR 2 which we maintained most time of the year 2009.

Hope this new update brings miles over your faces 🙂

Google Nexus One Coming This Jan 5 (2010)

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"Android Press Conference"  which is scheduled to be held on January 5, 2010 in Google’s Head Quarters, Mountain View, CA might feature the release of Google’s Nexus One phone.

The scanned copies of the innovation for this event are making rounds in the internet one.(check out a copy in this Gizmodo post)

 

 

 

The Text of the invitation:

With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation.And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.

Google Nexus One pic

The last line “just the beginning of what’s possible” might just give us a hint about what the Android conference is going to reveal to the world, most likely the Launch of Google Nexus One officially?

There is some leaked information about what the price of this device going to be,

Nexus One Phone Unlocked – $529.99 (Rs. 25000 INR aprrox)

Nexus One Phone + T-Mobile 2 Year Contract — $179.99

Image:Gizmodo

My IP Neighbors- Find Other Domains Hosted On Same Server

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My IP Neighbors is a great site to find the other websites hosted on your same web host/ server.Often this is useful particularly in case if you are using a shared hosting service, as all these websites will be hosted on the same server/ IP address.

Visit My IP Neighbors, Just enter the name of the website like ‘google.com’ for instance in the text field to look up the other websites hosted on the same server as that of google.com

The result is as shown:

IP Neighbors

realtibiaserver.com = Google ?

The other domains on the same server are google.co.in,google.com,google.nl & realtibiaserver.com.

and folks, realtibiaserver.com is taking us to Google Homepage when I tried to access.Please don’t ask me more about this site as I haven’t even heard before it, but interestingly, Google owns this domain.Whois Lookup also included in the results, courtesy whois.domaintools.com