Archive for June 2006

Google Site: command had errors since 2005

Google Site: operator was broken since 2005.

Some sites dynamically generated with some parameters or with some subdomains had a number of pages indexed in GOOGLE that was over billions but in fact those sites had thousands of pages. This error was reported several times and lately fixed by Google Team and  Googler Adam Lasnik .

Here try to read carefully the incident that calls for Adam and Google to pay more attention. How One Spammer Got BILLIONS of Pages into Google in 3 Weeks 

Midsommar Midsummer Sweden

Glad midsommar !
Tomorrow is the longest day of the year and is widely celebrated in Scandinavia, though midsommar is often celebrated on the closest Friday. Still, tomorrow is the real day! If I was in Sweden I’d be toasting aquavit with friends and staying up through the late sunset — and the subsequent sunrise shortly thereafter (may be one hour ).

Officially it’s to commemorate John the Baptist. Usually we collect some flowers and try to raise the midsummer pole and dance around it with some traditional songs.

Happy Midsummer Day – Gald midsommar

New York Times NYT cloacking or not ?

A question to be answered. Here is some samples site:select.nytimes.com friedman
We have noticed a lot of queries done without any relevancy lately on Google. Some of those SERPS are from Journal or online newspapers such as NYT and many others where you end up by irrelevant content asking you to subscribe.

This problems occurs for most Online Journals. But lemonde.fr has another half extrait solution before subscription
The question is : Was it done for the purpose of getting more subscribers ?

Philipp from Google Blogoscoped
the user is *annoyed* when she enters a search string and the result page says “please subscribe to actually see this”. I certainly hate it, even on Google News – I think they should exclude sub-only sources there as well, ‘

I totally agree, adding to Google news, Google Scholars. You do some search and you end up wasting 10 minutes to subscribe or to pay in order to get your articles WHICH can be found for FREE in some other search engines with old data stored.

Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Watch
Jill from High rankings is following the even with an open forum

Google should take cautions about these actions and seriously.
You never know when Google can begin losing their actual added value which is the Free Accessible and most relevant information ressource.

Google Belly Dancing

I do not know if some seo or webmasters has noticed what is happening in Google results during his week.

Some SERPS are old for one year including old titles in SERPS/
Meta Descriptions are not the one of the actual sites but old one dating at least 2 years ago or when you had your site accepted in DMOZ

Any news or feedbacks, thanks. _

Google Picassa Web albums is finally live

Fun, share, easy, finally the Google picassa Web Albums live in a test version and not a beta .