Google have added a new feature in its search results which help in viewing websites without actually clicking it . This Result Preview features was already present in Bing.Com and this is really Cool feature where you can see the view of any website that comes in Google search engine without visiting that website.
You can view the preview by click a magnifying glass besides each results, once click you can view preview of every site without clicking by just putting the mouse over the web results.
Google interface
This features will help visitors finding websites of their choice easily and also help website owners to lowers their Bounce Rates.
I don’t understood why Google have copied the search result preview feature from Bing.Com. As Google is famous of its unique feature updates on time to time this new update may create many confusion in the mind of All Google only lovers.
Google has now corrected the problem of showing huge number of links for any website by separating the total number of links and sample of total incoming links which its show for download purpose. Earlier Google Used to show all the incoming links in table but now they are showing table as follows :-
This table lists a sample of 129 external pages that link to http://www.rajasthantourism.us/.
Total links: 277.
Go check out this development and find your links.
I just logged into my Google Webmaster Tools account and got a surprise, which I am sure is some mistake From Google
The first site I checked had 250 back links few days ago, now it is having 3067 !!
The second site had about 2000 back links, now it has 54443 backlinks.
These figures are mentioned at the top of the “links to your site” page. Below it is a list with links to all the different pages of the site. Added all together I get a much lower figure, a bit higher then a few days ago, but nothing near the total Google says I have.
But when I Downloaded the table and its only showed 648. When I actually went through the table within WMT, I counted 609.
I wonder if I am the only one with these strange results, or are more people seeing this in their webmaster account?
From last 48 hours I am noticing that Google Cache has gone wrong, When you look for cache pages from either Google Toolbar or use command cache:http://www.google.com then you will get page not found error. Have a look
Google has recently started giving a domain name to cache Ip’s this error can be due to that as earlier Google cache pages contains some IP’s from which that cache pages was served but its still not clear that why Google has given a name to those IP addresses.
Google Cache has now brand new domain name http://webcache.googleusercontent.com instead of various IP’s like 74.125.45.132. I personally have never seen this domain being mentioned before either. I guess it would make things cleaner to use a domain for the cache URL. If you try going to http://webcache.googleusercontent.com it will actually load a Google search page. Google is the owner of googleusercontent.com and currently, webcache.googleusercontent.com’s IP address for me is 74.125.45.132, which is the same IP I see being used when I click on a cache link in Google.
Google Today announced that Site Speed will be the Next New Ranking Factor in Google’s algorithm, Google has first introduce this last year when Matt Cutts said that there was strong lobbying inside Google to account for site speed as a new ranking factor. Speaking at SMX West last month, Google’s Maile Ohye showed a slide indicating that delays of under a half-second impact business metrics. But Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few queries. Google also reveled that they have already implanted speed factor for US Searchers.
Amit Singhal a Googler says Google ran its own testing on how users respond to page speed, including experiments on Google.com. Singhal and Cutts point to a June 2009 blog post on the Google Research Blog that talked about how Google purposely slowed down its search results to measure the impact on search behavior. Our experiments demonstrate that slowing down the search results page by 100 to 400 milliseconds has a measurable impact on the number of searches per user of -0.2% to -0.6% (averaged over four or six weeks depending on the experiment). That’s 0.2% to 0.6% fewer searches for changes under half a second!
“When we slow our own users down [on Google.com], we see less engagement,” Singhal says. “Users love fast sites. A faster web is a good thing all around.”
How Google Measures Page Speed
Singhal says there are two primary ways Google will measure page speed:
1. How a page responds to Googlebot
2. Load time as measured by the Google Toolbar
In December, Google added a page speed report to Webmasters Tools in the “Labs” section. The report shows how fast your site loads, specifically calls out several pages on your site, and offers suggestions to improve page speed.
“Quality should still be the first and foremost concern [for site owners],” Cutts says. “This change affects outliers; we estimate that fewer than 1% of queries will be impacted. If you’re the best resource, you’ll probably still come up.”
Singhal says the focus remains on improving the user experience on Google.com, and the company can’t do that if it gets the relevance of search results wrong. “We want to return faster sites,” he says, “but not at the expense of relevance.”
Google further says this ranking change has no relation to its upcoming Caffeine rollout, which is about how Google indexes the web, not how it ranks pages.
According Experian Hitwise Yahoo and Ask are the two gainers for the month of March 2010 with an increase in traffic by 3% and 21 % respectively although Google is at number 1 position with 69.97% searches, but this still not a good news for search engine giant as it was the fourth straight declining month for Google. Google reached a high of 72.25% share in December, and has seen that number drop slightly each month since then.
statistic for search engines
But still, Google’s market share — as Hitwise sees it — is still more than twice as high as Yahoo, Bing, and Ask combined.
SEOs and many others are celebrating with today’s news that Digg will shutter its toolbar and unban all previously banned domains. Digg’s new CEO, Kevin Rose, says the changes will happen with the upcoming relaunch of Digg.com.
The DiggBar was launched almost exactly a year ago, and immediately received lots of criticism from publishers who didn’t like their content being framed, and from search marketers who pointed out that it robbed sites of credit for inbound links. Digg later changed how the DiggBar works in response to these criticisms, but in his announcement today, Rose says the framing issue is why the DiggBar is dead.
As we all know framing content with an iFrame is bad for the Internet. It causes confusion when bookmarking, it’s an inconsistent user experience, and I’m happy to say we are killing it when we launch the new Digg.
As for the unbanning of domains, this has affected the search industry for years. Rose’s announcement today makes it clear that all content will be welcome on the new Digg.
The new Google user interface that Google has been testing since November 2009 has been showing up more on user screens, it resurfaced in February, and now we have been hearing more reports of people noticing the new interface. The main new feature that we see in this interface is that Google is auto-detecting user’s location and showing that under the search box. Here is a screen shot:
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