Cloud storage for webmasters

The introduction of new cloud storage from Parascale is latest news in the webmaster field. The data as per this is not kept on the physical devices; instead internet is used to store the details.  
Company has already announced the storage of data on a high security system. The central control servers with metadata [...]

Microsoft going for document segmentation based on vision

Visions based document segmentation is a new patent obtained by Microsoft. The web pages have so much diversity in topics including content, links, labels and ads that search engines will find it really difficult to index and get the pages for the searchers.
This patent considers breaking down the web pages into a number of [...]

People unaware of social networking

When search engines are trying to improve their customer base, a recent study from the webmaster forums showed that most of the people have no proper knowledge about social networking. When this is considered as a world of social networking, the surveys conducted among the people of various countries showed that, they even didn’t know [...]

Google’s patent for historical data content update

 
Google tries to look into the change of content in the web pages and how this affects the page rank of the corresponding pages. 
This is based on the fact that websites get updated frequently. There can be addition of products or information in websites and blogs. There are changes that occur on a regular basis [...]

Search engine going to give related information on queries

Search engines are trying to introduce more information about a particular keyword query. Along with displaying results connected to a particular keyword, the search engine will also display information about people, places and other things related to that word.
When searching for a song for instance, the search engine will also display information about the singer, [...]

Yahoo and hackers

Yahoo has done what was expected of it. They have obviously felt the heat on quite a few avenues of operation of late and outright bids to buy them out has certainly raised questions. The latest announcement from Yahoo is their alliance with 300 hackers to revamp their system and look at things in new [...]

Google going to reduce IP retention time

Google in a recent blog from their office has declared that, they are going to anonymize the IP of the logs in their search engine servers in 9 months. This has been an update on the earlier declaration of the retention period of 18 months.
This change has been made by the company in an attempt [...]

Google using phrase based indexing

Google has obtained the patent for the phrase based indexing. This will explore the various documents present in the internet and will find out the frequency with which the same phrase is appearing on the same documents. This will be marked as related by the search engine.
Once this kind of relation marking is done with, [...]

Advertisers against Google-Yahoo partnership

The association of advertisers is very much worried about the going to be partnership between Google and Yahoo. They have already given their concerns and anxieties against this, in public.
The most important matter that troubles them is the fact that, out of this partnership, the 90% of advertisement business will be in the hands of [...]

Google reducing the retention period

Google has recently made a declaration that, they will be anonymizing the IPs of the sever search logs, after a period of nine months, instead of the 18 months. Google considers that they are the first search engine to come up with a retention period of around 18 months. Now, they have again proven that, [...]

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