Recently I came accross an interesting post in Labnol. In this post Amit explained about a new operator in Bing. Ofcourse we all know that Bing is a new search engine which is released few months back from Microsoft. Using this operator we can find out different domains which are hosted on an IP.
Search for "ip:(IP address)" to get the all different domains which are hosted on the same ip. For example I have taken domain www.educationinandhra.com. It's hosted on ip 66.147.242.170. Now I have searched for the all different domains which are hosted on the same ip as shown in the following screenshot.
Thanks Amit
Find all domains hosted on an IP in Bing
New Option "Promote" in Orkut
Orkut is a popular social site in Brazil and india. 49.83% users in Brazil and 17.51% users in India are using Orkut. It's launched in Jan 22, 2004. In 2004 Orkut has more users from United States, later US users are attracted to facebook and myspace.
We all would always wish to send something to all of our friends like messages, greetings, invitations, photos, videos, information etc. To make all this possible with a single click Orkut has released new option "Promote". It's a free tool. You will find this option below the events button ( Have a look on the following image). Currently this feature not live for all users, Probably it would be live after some time.
One of the best part of this tool is tracking. You can see clearly that how many people has viewed your message, clicked it and deleted it. It's a great feature for Promotional purposes. If you want to sale something for low price, this is the best feature to offer your friends to utilize the chance.
Just have a look on the following charts to have an idea that how orkut got popular in Brazil and India which was popular earlier in United States. (source: Wikipedia)
Bing - Microsoft New Decision Engine
Microsoft is going to release a new search engine which is called Bing. Microsoft team is saying that "people would find a new search experience through Bing, so they are calling it as a decision engine. People would get world class search experience through it which has most latest features and for sure give fine results. In future people would take decisions through Bing only."
Microsoft Bing Profiles on the web :
Few people are saying that Microsoft is giving old wine in new bottle. Bing would be same as Live search. However few people are eagerly waiting for the new search experience with Bing, why because people are got bored with google. Google is Everywhere, Everyone looking for a change. Wait and see what's going to happen.
Wolfram Alpha is completely different from Google
Recently on web, there are so many conversations are going regarding Wolfram Alpha. WolframAlpha is a new search engine which is going to be released on May 18th 2009. It's developed by Stephen Wolfram (creator of Mathematica).
Stephen wolfram planned to release it on May 15, 2009. As planned they have released on the same date, however due to over load they have shifted the public launch date to May 18, 2009.
Do you know the caption of Wolfram Alpha, it was “computational search engine”. It's completely a different concept of search. It's not at all a competitor for Google or any other search engine. Till now I was in assumption that it will occupy the position of google in future. Just now I have watched a scree cast from Wolfram Alpha blog.
In this video they have clearly explained that how it displays results for different queries. It was really interesting. If you would like to watch that video just click below. Wait for few mints it will take time to load.
Here I would like to place few screen shots of different searches of Wolfram Alpha, so that you guys can have a better idea about this computational search engine.
Search for "2+2" in WolframAlpha, to see the result click on the below image to have a larger view :
Search for "integrate x^2sin^3 x dx" in WolframAlpha, to see the result click on the below image to have a larger view:
Search for "gdp france" in WolframAlpha, to see the result click on the below image to have a larger view :
Search for "internet users in europe" in WolframAlpha, to see the result click on the below image to have a larger view :
Search for "springfield" in WolframAlpha, to see the result click on the below image to have a larger view :
Hope you guys have some better understanding that how this search engine will display results in a computed mathematical way. In the above video every thing is explained well. Hope you have watched it and understand the concept of Stephen Wolfram. Feel free write your thoughts in comments.
Twitter is making it's search better
Twitter is planning to make their search better to give better user experience. Santosh Jayaram (Twitter VP of Operations) confirmed that some changes are going to happen in twitter search. He was earlier worked as a VP in Google Search Quality team.
We all should feel glad to know about these changes, because twitter usually away from major changes. Any ways because of this most of the third party twitter tools making good money. Let them be happy.
Mainly Two things they were looking to change :
- Indexing links in tweets
- Reputation ranking system for tweets
Indexing Links in Tweets :
Currently search engines only able to crawl the text in the tweets but not links. They were planning to make the search engines to crawl the links too along with text in the tweets. So that people can get real time twitter results in the search engines too. Especially it gives users better search experience to those who are looking for timely content.
Reputation ranking system for tweets :
We all know that whenever we click on the trending topic, able to see lot of retweets. They are planning to give Reputation ranking system to these tweets. No one knows how the system is designed. Even the twitter engineers also not aware much about this, why because they are still figuring out that which works better. Hope this ranking system will give a great user experience.
The whole world is awaiting for these changes.
Twitter is not for sale
Recently we have gone through so many discussions on the web that Google is buying twitter, Apple is planning to buy twitter, why not amazon buy twitter. Of course everyone is ready to buy twitter, However twitter is not yet ready to sale it now. Twitter co founders declared that at the moment they want to be independent.
Do you all know why twitter is getting such a huge demand. It's only because of it's real time search. When something happens in the world, it will come immediately in the form of tweets in twitter. So that the whole world will came to know about the hot news whether it is bad or good.
Using Google, Yahoo and MSN etc we will get only the posts which are posted in the blogs. Of course through these blogs and news sites we will get detailed information, however for instant real time information twitter is the right choice. Twitter users are increasing day by day in a huge ratio.
Few people are stating that in future twitter will be the competitor for google. Might be whom knows. We have to wait and see for the results.
Tips to request reconsideration in Google
Most of the webmasters face the problem that their sites penalized by the Google. Before submitting, request for reconsideration, just have a look on the following video which is not more than 4 mints.
In this video Rachel Searles and Brian White who are working in Google Search Quality Team explained clearly about the process.
Discussion as follows in the video :
Brian Says :
Hi, I am Brian White and this is my colleague Rachel and we are in the Search Quality team in Google in the Web spam group. We are here today with some tips on the reconsideration process.
Rachel Says:
All right, let's start with the case where you know your site has violated the Google guidelines, it is important to admit any mistakes you've made and let us know what you've done to try to fix them. Some times we get requests from people who say: "My site adheres to the guidelines now," and that is not really enough information for us. So, please be as detailed as possible.
Realize that there are people actually reading these requests, including the people in this room. If you do not know what your site might have done to get a penalty, go back to the Google guidelines and reread them carefully before requesting reconsideration. Look at the things to avoid and ask questions of people that work on your site, if you do not work on it yourself. If you'd like that advice of a third party, you can also seek help in our google webmaster forum.
Brian Says:
Sometimes we get reconsideration request or where the requester associates technical website issues with a penalty. An example could be that the server timed out for a while, or that bad content was delivered for a time, and google is pretty adaptive to these kinds of transient issues with websites. So people sometimes misread the situation as "I have a penalty" and then seek reconsideration. And it is probably good idea to wait a bit and see if things revert to their previous state. Some people attribute duplicate content with leading to a penalty and usually the problem lies elsewhere. And say you are in a partnership with someone else, say another website, and they put this combined effort together in a way that goes against our quality guidelines and involve both your website and theirs and then the end effort reflects badly on both.
You have control over your site, but sometimes it's hard to get stuff cleaned up on sites you do not control. We are sympathetic to these situations. Just make your best effort to document that in a complete reconsideration request. In the case of say bad links that were gathered, point us to a URL that shows your exhaustive effort to clean that up. Also, we have pretty good tools internally, so do not try to fool us as there are actual people, as Rachel said, looking at your reports. If you intentionally pass along bad or misleading information, we will disregard that request for reconsideration.
Rachel : And please do not spam the reconsideration form, it does not help to submit in multiple requests all at the same time, just one detailed concise report and just get it right the first time. Your request will be reviewed by a member of our team and we do review them promptly, that said if you have some new information to add about your site, go ahead and file a new reconsideration request. And finally, if reconsideration does happen, please be aware that it can take some time to notice when a penalty has been lifted.
Brian Says :
Yes, the bottom line is we care very deeply for our search engine users, and we want them to be happy and not have to complain. So make sure that
A) The issues are fixed with your site before filing reconsideration
B) Make sure that we don't have to worry about your site violating the quality guidelines in the future.
So, from the people who are part of the reconsideration process, from our end, thank you.
Rachel Says: Thank you
How important are web analytics?
Web analytics have major importance in on line business. Tracking the history of visitors and keep doing research on analytics is must and should. We can know about visitors and their views through these analytics.
Analytics usage are increasing day by day. Analytic professionals have higher demand in the market. Everyone can't become an Analytic expert. It needs great thinking, visualization and case study.
Every On line business should take care about :
Bounce rate :
Bounce rate is something which will helps you to know that how visitors are going away from your site. Higher bounce rate means visitors aren't interested on your site. Lesser means visitors are happy to stay on your site. It's always better to make bounce rate 0%, however it's not possible, so it's better to keep it less.
Visit Length :
How long visitors are staying on your site in average? If most of the visitors are staying good amount time on your site means they are reading some thing on your site which is useful for them. So visit length always matters to know the interest of viewer on your site. According to this metrics you can optimize your site.
Visit Depth :
Visit Depth means "Are the visitor is showing interest in visiting the other pages of your site too?" If a visitor visited most of the pages on your site and spent good amount of time on each page says your site awesome. visited all pages and spend less amount of time is not good. Not visited other pages is bad. So higher visit depth helps to grow your business as well as brand.
Returning Visitors :
More returning visits means you have loyal readers for your site. If a visitor come again and again to your site means he liked your site and found it useful. These kind of readers are called as loyal readers. More loyal readers you have, that much popular your site is. It's very important to have more returning visits. Always try to increase the number of normal visits as well as returning visits.
... Most of the search engines will consider all these factors, to show up your website in top search engine results for a particular keyword. So it's important to make note of all these topics and keep working and optimizing it to succeed in your business. Comment your thoughts :) ...
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