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.
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:
For example, below is a search for health care on Google where about midway down on the page, there’s a “Latest results” section that appears with real time results:
real time searches
The results automatically flow with new information — and if that’s annoying, you can use the “Pause” link at the top of the section to stop them. What you can’t do is remove the section entirely, if you don’t like it.
By the way, you won’t always see the results. “If high quality information is coming in, then we will show it,” said Amit Singhal, a Google fellow who heads Google’s ranking systems and oversaw the development of the new real time search system, when I talked with him after the Google press conference.
Click on the Latest results link, and you can drill down into the results:
Here you can sort the results on the basis of categories like if you want latest in health care from Blogs then click on blog link, if you want latest from news then clicking on news will provide news results.
Google secretly replaced the answer.com with its own dictionary; Answer.com has more than 25 million monthly unique users. It was the source of definitions in the “definitions” link in the upper right of Google SERPs.
This will be an attention-grabbing test of Answers.com’s strength. It will undoubtedly loose considerable traffic. But according to Gil Reich VP of Product Management at Answers.com, they have grown up and have their own traffic sources and Google’s definition link was just 55 of the total traffic. Furthermore Answers.com is a public company and we’re likely to see its shares decline, I would imagine, as investors discover this change and sell.
The new Google dictionary is offering a better user experience and some nice features, such as recent searches which are tied into overall Google web search history.
Now what will happens to Answer.com is the question we are waiting to get from time?
“Starting today, we will no longer accept new sign-ups for Local Listing Ads in the Local Business Center, and in mid-December, existing Local Listing Ads will stop running. This limited free trial was one of many beta tests that we develop experimentally as part of our ongoing commitment to help businesses advertise online.
We’re currently using data and feedback from the trial period to make further improvements to our online marketing offerings for small businesses, and plan to release an enhanced version more widely in the near future. In the meantime, locally-minded businesses can simply and easily promote their products and services to their local markets by using existing features within our AdWords program, such as geographic targeting and location extensions.”
Don’t forget, It’s temporary, Ads will run until mid-December and stop until 2010. when they will probably release new features, after they have analyzed all the feedback from the usage of clicks of the ad service.
I wonder if we’re going to have to pay for the service when it’s released again. Does anyone think this will happen?
After few months of testing and lots of debate on Google’s New Fading Home Page, Google today confirmed that it’s switching to a home page that fades in as it loads. The rest of the text and links on the home page will only appear when a user moves his/her mouse.
The Google announcement says the new home page is live now, but both new and old versions are accessible. so users check this new version and give your comments.
Google | admin | July 5, 2010 | 
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