Articles tagged with 'Search engine'

A friend of ours wanted to remove certain personal information from Google’s cache of a website she registered with. It was located at her profile page. We helped search the procedures for removing data from their cache. Took quite awhile to sort through the various instructions but we finally obtained the steps and she successfully got the personal information removed.

Here we share all that we have learnt through the process which requires only 2 simple steps.

We’ve finally gotten to implementing a DoFollow plugin on Zhongg.com.

For the less technical ones, comments are normally configured as NoFollow. Meaning google won’t include the link when calculating your PageRank (some silly ranking thing for websites ). Basically, you’re out of luck if you post comments just to get more links to your website.

Being the generous PageRank 1 (First!) website that we are, we’ve generously allowed everyone to leech off the little remaining self esteem that we have as a website. Just post a comment and Google will love you long time. Yahoo will kiss you and Microsoft will slip into a sexy lingerie just for you.

There’s a catch though, you need to post regularly - at least 3 comments - to enable the feature for your comments.

For those interested to implement the plugin, get Linklove here.

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As some of you out there are aware, the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on google’s index page serves to redirect you the the first site of the results page. For example, if you’re googling ‘yahoo’, Google will redirect you to yahoo.com - skipping the results page. This is a great time saver for times when you are using rather specific keywords like domain names (’zhongg’ leads to this website, hurray!).

Today, we bring you a search engine extension for firefox for the above feature. Get it here. It may not be much but the saved seconds do add up

Online news sites have been ablaze with rumors of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Yahoo! (henceforth referred to as Yahoo without the exclamation). It seems that Yahoo has been approached again by Microsoft to enter into acquisition talks. This follows numerous inconclusive talks in the past between the two parties. Microsoft is rather desperate this time, offering up to a (reportedly) sum of $50 billion for the deal to go forward.

Experts have been hinting otherwise, as the takeover and integration process would be a massive task.Imagine all the overlapping services that have to be streamlined. This is not made easier by the fact that Yahoo and Microsoft have been actively copying each other since forever.

The move didn’t came out as a surprise, given the latest purchase of major online advertising company DoubleClick by Google which might have slightly offset Microsoft’s world domination plan. A more plausible explanation would be a joint partnership on search and advertising in order to fight evenly with Google. Google currently leads search and advertising market followed by Yahoo and Microsoft. Microsoft’s struggle against Google has been pretty futile so a partner in crime might help out a bit.

After the dust settled, we now know that the latest episode of talks ended up inconclusive again. Too bad, I was looking forward to the result of this unholy union.

(from TechCrunch)

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