Google Explained better by its rivals Yahoo and Live

Try searching for the keyword "Google" on all the top 3 search engines. You will find some interesting results displayed which indicates that Google is explained better bby Yahoo and Live(Microsoft) when compared to Google itself.

Here are those interesting screen shots results when typed "Google"
Google on Yahoo Search:


Google on Live Search:


Google on Google Search:


From the above results we can see that Google term is explained in more general from its rivals Microsoft and Yahoo when compared to Google itself. Now that's quite a bizarre :), yours rivals explaining you better than yourself ;)

Thanks Labnol
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Australian Web Analytics Survey 2008 - A Research

I was going through the third annual research pdf released by Bienalto to access the intake of Web Analytics by Australian business sector. The survey reveals some interesting challenges that the web analytics industry is faced with and the growth of analytics sector along with with the maturity of the industry in the adoption of analytics into the industry.

Here are some interesting stats from the post published:
1) Number of organizations investing into the analytics tools by more than $10,000 has increased from 36% in 2007 to 44% in 2008.
2) Organisations who trust the data they receive from web analytics tools are increasing.
3) Google Analytics is used by 62.5% of organizations which is up from 52.9% in 2007.
4) Apart from Search Engine Optimisation, Web analytics has been identified as the most important web initiative for 2009
5) Marketing departments are getting more involved with web analytics and in growing proportions taking full responsibility for it.

For a detailed report on the Australian Web Analytics Survey visit Bienalto
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Submit Your Google Spam Suggestions to Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts, Google’s Software Engineer and head of Web Spam is looking for some opinions/feedbacks on what you are looking for Google webspam team to fight in 2009. Matt usually does this annually on his blog. So if you have something to suggest regarding the spam just click the link and post your comments in matt's blog.

Matt's Web spam chart

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Sitemaps Affect on Website Crawlers

You created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines. Did you ever started thinking if this really helps the site out and what’s the effect when you submit a Sitemap on the site. Why we need to use sitemaps, Using sitemaps on your websites really going to affect on the Rankings of your website. Many of us are unaware what are the Advantages of using the Sitemaps on our websites.

I was going through this Excellent post written by chenry where he discussed some interesting points pertaining to Sitemaps with good display of stats. To find out the uses of Sitemap chenry he wrote a PHP script and installed in on his client website to track every time a bot accessed the Sitemap, every time the Sitemap was submitted, and every page it crawled on the website. The script was designed to store this information in a MySQL database along with a timestamp, IP address, and the user agent. He also modified the Sitemap generator to insert a timestamp every time the sitemap was submitted to the search engines.

The Primary aim of his experiment was to find out if submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo would show any effect on the time it took Google to crawl and index the page. To his surprise the results were quite amazing!!. When a Sitemap was submitted the average time it took for the bot to visit the new post was 14 minutes for Google and 245 minutes for Yahoo. When no Sitemap was submitted and the bot had to crawl to the post, it took 1375 minutes for Google and 1773 for Yahoo. The averages were calculated on 12 different posts, 6 with Sitemaps being submitted, and 6 with the Sitemaps not being submitted.


Crawltime with no-Sitemap



Crawltime with Sitemap



For further reading visit chenry
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Steve Jobs: Harmone Imbalance Effecting my Weight Loss

Industry concerns about Steve Jobs' health have not gone away after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, fighting what insiders at the time were calling a "bug". Apple Inc. founder and CEO said Monday, that a hormonal imbalance is to blamed for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health. Jobs said he will be undergoing a small treatment and will remain in charge of Apple.



Investors seemed to be happy to have some clarity on his health and Apple's shares rose to $94.17 in Monday morning trading. So today "Hormone Imbalance" will likely be a very popular Google search term :).

Here is a the complete letter which Steve wrote to the Apple Community.

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

" Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve "
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