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Google’s Webmaster Central has been enhanced by a new feature, that will provide information about the complete phrases sites use to link to you, not just individual words.
“Now we’ve enhanced the information we provide and will show you the complete phrases sites use to link to you, not just individual words. And we’ve expanded the number we show to 100. To make this information as useful as possible, we’re aggregating the phrases by eliminating capitalization and punctuation.”
You can find this list of phrases by logging into webmaster tools, accessing your site, then going to Statistics > Page anaysis. You can view this data in a table and can download it as a CSV file.
March 16th, 2007
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Google announced a change of their privacy policy, that will affect the storage of personal data like search queries, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, Google kept this data for as long as it was ‘useful’, but with this policy change, they will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months. For more information on the handling of personal data at Google, please take a look at this FAQ.
March 15th, 2007
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The MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the video-sharing site YouTube.com and its corporate parent, Google, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.
Viacom claims that YouTube.com has displayed more than 160,000 unauthorized video clips from its various cable networks, which also include VH1 and Comedy Central.
Viacom also slammed YouTube’s copyright policy: “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws. In fact, YouTube’s strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site, thus generating significant traffic and revenues for itself while shifting the entire burden – and high cost – of monitoring YouTube onto the victims of its infringement.”
March 13th, 2007
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Goolge released the lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5, Guice (pronounced ‘juice’), earlier this week. Guice wholly embraces annotations and generics, thereby enabling you to wire together and test objects with less effort than ever before. Annotations finally free you from error-prone, refactoring-adverse string identifiers.
In a nutshell:Â
- Guice empowers dependency injection.
- Guice cures tight coupling.
- Guice enables simpler and faster testing at all levels.
- Guice reduces boilerplate code.
- Guice is type safe.
- Guice externalizes configuration when appropriate.
- Guice lets you compose your application of components which are truly independent.
- Guice reports error messages as if they will be read by human beings.
- Guice is the anti-static.
- Guice is small and very fast.
Guice injects constructors, fields and methods (any methods with any number of arguments, not just setters). Guice includes advanced features such as custom scopes, circular dependencies, static member injection, Spring integration, and AOP Alliance method interception, most of which you can ignore until you need it.
You can find the library and the documentation at Code.Google.com.
March 13th, 2007
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is why Google has added Photo support to their Maps local search:
“Now you can compare the sea views and room interiors for beachfront hotels in Honolulu or drool over the dishes served at steakhouses in Boston. Google Maps also includes pictures of buildings, storefronts, signs, and logos—especially helpful if you’re going somewhere for the first time.”
Also, business owners can now submit a photo of their business to Google Maps using the Local Business Center.
March 9th, 2007
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According to Reuters, the corporate vice president for Microsoft’s Live Search initiative, Christopher Payne, plans to leave Microsoft, to launch his own, non-search related company. Payne was one of the leaders in the move to bring search in-house at Microsoft.
The Microsoft management has not made any comments yet.
March 8th, 2007
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The Live.com Team released two new gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar. The first one uses a web service to fetch your search results and render them directly in the widget for the fastest search results.
The other one, a Live Search Maps gadget, is a quick and simple way to see real-time traffic conditions in your area. Shortcuts to driving directions, local search or full-screen traffic view on maps.live.com are also easily available from the gadget. Metro area traffic is currently supported for the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa and Washington DC. You can find the download links at the Live.com Blog.
March 7th, 2007
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Google announced the release of Google Desktop 5 beta earlier today. The most prominent changes you will notice, are the gadgets and sidebar. Some of the gadgets have been redesigned to provide the user in a more easy to read and visually appealing format.
They also improved the Desktop Search - when you do a search now, it enables you to preview the search results right inside the browser, so you don’t need to wait for an entire application to open just to make sure you’ve found the file you were looking for.
March 7th, 2007
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