Google News

Kichus posts about Google, talking about the latest updates, news and more about Google Inc.

Why should I report paid links to Google?

Why? That would probably be as a way to help them to override the link buyers. I am not sure whether they can figure out algorithmically a link is paid or not. Recently they updated the Webmaster Guidelines to include one paragraph on Buying Links which you can read it here.
We all know that how [...]

First Official Confirmation on Google Buys FeedBurner

Hey, we all knew that. What on earth made the official confirmation get prolonged till date? No clues. But anyway it’s rolled out today. You can read the official confirmation from Google Blog, and from the FeedBurner Blog.
If you’re interested, listen to the 45-minute audio file file of the press call today with FeedBurner [...]

iGoogle and the Google’s Search History feature

New! View and manage your web history
Did you noticed the new option when you search using your Personalized searches – when you sign in using your google account and do a seach – in the Right Top side. New! View and manage your web history. You ever knew this was switched on by Defualt [...]

Google, Yahoo!, Live and Ask.com unites to Support Sitemap Autodiscovery

Last year (November, 2006) kichus posted Google, Live and Yahoo were joining hands together to support the Sitemap Protocol on a jointly-maintained site sitemaps.org. Today they moved one step further, joined with Ask in supporting the same and they made the sitemap auto-discoverable. This eliminates the need of submitting sitemaps to each search engine separately. [...]

Two Display changes in AdWords Ad Listings, Today

Google Sponsored Listings changed the way the Top Ads display. According to the Adwords team official announcement, there are two main changes they implemented today.

The first change is only applicable for the Top Ads which are shown at the top of the organic results and not for the right-hand side ones. They used to display [...]

New Mobile Search Options from Google and Yahoo

Google Mobile search is Open to all:
They were testing it from ages and now they made it open to everyone. You can find it here http://www.google.com/m?uipref=3 and can be accessible using any of your mobile browsers. You can have some more customized options like weather, news, stocks movies, GMail and much more. Next time [...]

Google Pay Per Action Beta Launched in US

Good news for the Google Advertisers and probably a bad one for the Publishers, especially for the MAF (Made For Adsense) site owners. Google launched Pay Per Action Beta today. Initially this is a limited launch for their US only customers, so others have to wait further more to test it.

What exactly is going on in the Google SERPs?

Nowadays if you are taking the Keyword Density reports for popular SEO forums, you may be seeing a significant raise in the Ratio for phrases like “Google Index Updates”, “Google SERPs refresh”, “Google data refresh”, “my ranks went down”, “my site get disappeared” or more similar. What is happening all over? Is that an Algorithm [...]

Google, Yahoo and Live Search to Support Sitemap

We have been using the Google Sitemap from a year around, ever thought about why the other Search Engines can’t support it? No need to worry more, they (Google, Yahoo and MSN Live.com) are joining hands together to support the Sitemap Protocol on a jointly-maintained site sitemaps.org.

Now you can use “&id=” in URLs – Google

Happy news for all the Webmasters, after the recent Google Algorithm update they’d removed the sentence -”Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index”- from their Webmaster Guideline page.