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JotSpot has just been bought by big G ..

Wiki service is going to be free and integrated with the rest of Google’s suite of web-based applications. omg…

What next.. hmm

 More from google here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html 

About $75 per hour.. not to bad..

Here is some useful info from the faq before you clicky on the link..

Does it involve having electrodes attached to my body? 

No. Sorry.

And

Do I get paid? 

Yes – it depends on the type of study, but typically we pay $75 for each hour that you spend with a Google researcher, either in person or on the phone. Most studies last for one to one-and-a-half hours. We don’t pay for your travel time, or travel expenses, though. For online surveys, which you complete from your own computer, the amount varies, depending on the length of the survey.

Only take about 10mins to apply.. so here the linky

https://services.google.com/inquiry/user_study

Have google moved lately ?

I heard about the move in New york and this or was it last year google moved down near to victoria from the edge of soho..

Well someone just sent me this.. The new offices

I like this….

 Its seems to of been about for a while.. But hey I haven’t spent enough time over on digitalpoint of late..

Anyway here is a bit of linkage for you http://www.linkexperiment.com/

 The guy basically wants people to add links to the home and bid for them.. the minium bid is $20.01 right now..

This is how it work

 The link experiment started on May 15th, 2006 with links for sale at a starting bid of $.01 per link. The idea is simple. The homepage will hold 100 links which anybody can buy. Links are ordered by price from highest to lowest. For every new bid, all links below it are moved down one spot and the last link gets pushed off the homepage.

And this is what its for (bit like last time.. )

I created the page with 2 small goals in mind. 1) To support my running career in an attempt to make it to the Olympic Games for long distance running. 2) To make $1 Million Dollars

hmmmm nice idea.. but the olymic games runner who is already 23 ? .. Anyway good luck..!

hmmm..

Seem an odd annoucement to me.. hmmm

I’ve seen session id’s in the serps for yrs..

I’ve also say as far away from them as possiable due to massive issues with duplicate content..

Once upon a time.. I had a phpbb forum that had some 10,000 index page on google .. some how (I assume a link) google index about 10 session id’s and index over 200,000 pages.. loads and loads of dup’s.. The ranking shot up for a short time until the site was penalised..

If you interested I bought Vbulletin and moved to a new domain and i’ve never had a problem since..

So .. This is what google says anyway!

Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index.

However, we’ve recently removed that technical guideline, and now index URLs that contain that parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don’t worry about rewriting it — we’ll accept it just fine as is. Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you. If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls.

More info : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/update-to-our-webmaster-guidelines.html

google ask us not to say “googled” ..

I remember who Eric schmidt was speaking at a ses and was asked if he “google anything”

Q: Do you ever say you Google anything?
A: Cant say for legal reasons.

Full speach here http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/004343.html

Anyway here is what google wan’t us to do!

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device that identifies a particular company’s products or services. Google is a trademark identifying Google Inc. and our search technology and services. While we’re pleased that so many people think of us when they think of searching the web, let’s face it, we do have a brand to protect, so we’d like to make clear that you should please only use “Google” when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services.

More info http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html

An intersting article over at the the register about google buying youtube being moronic!

He’s some interesting quotes that court my attention.

Still, champagne glasses were clinking last night in one corner of an incestuous Silicon Valley company. Sequoia Capital, the sole investor in YouTube, has seen its $11.5m investment increase 140-fold. So not a bad day for Google Board member Michael Moritz, a partner at Seqoia Capital.

More…

The world’s biggest record company, Universal Music Group (UMG), and the second biggest Sony BMG, will license material to YouTube, we learned hours before the Google deal was officially confirmed. The UMG partnership sounds great on the surface, but less so on closer examination.

and more

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/10/google_youtube_analysis/

Enjoy

If you like kol.. here you go!

This is designed so far by ian of http://www.geekprojects.com/ 

Try the kol search engine here

coop .. Should be called sediy

So google has now upgraded coop so you can change rankings in site for k/ws and offer it to your users..

 Example here

 realclimate

 More info @ google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html

Direct link to the “NEW SEARCH ENGINE” …

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Gbot activity..

This is very cool..

I have 3 sites with ye-oldie google sitemaps and its really good to see the difference..

Anyway this is what google said:

Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages. Webmaster tools show each of these for the last 90 days. Stay tuned for more information about this data and how you can use it to pinpoint issues with your site.

Here is my chart:

More info here: 

 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/learn-more-about-googlebots-crawl-of.html