Search Engine News Flash

Google’s new search engine!
Since the merge with Bing and Yahoo!, Google has now announced that they will also be launching a new project, which is a new version of Google Search. Puzzled? Yes they are going to launch a new updated edition of Google’s search engine to replace the old one. Maybe Google feels slightly threatened with the new competition. Bing and Yahoo have also recently partnered up with Facebook and they are doing extremely well with the click share.

From the research I have gathered the reason why they are working so hard on this project is so they can improve the search engines indexing speed giving more relevant search results speedily, better accuracy and comprehensiveness. The change is said to be not that noticeable and most people won’t even notice a difference. If you would like to test this new search engine please visit http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

Who’s the speedier search engine?
Round 1 fight! The arising competition between Google and Bing is becoming slightly more noticeable. Who is stealing whose click share? With the Bing market share growing, Google has plans to speed up search results to gain a few points back.

As I have mention previously Google is also working on updating there search engine (Sandbox) but another plan that’s going to be put into place is Google AJAX. AJAX technology is basically an application framework which uses advanced JavaScript to make pages of search results load faster. Google sees this as an advantage and will use AJAX to reconfigure the speed of there search engine.

Some results say that Bing potentially has a faster speed than Google when it comes to doing searches. But will the implementation of AJAX be faster than Bing??

Geo Meta Tag useless?
Recently I watched one of Matt Cutts (Google) videos on Geo Meta tags. Yes Geo Meta tags don’t actually account for much when it comes to search engine optimization. Geo Meta tags are a standard meta tag that provides the location and country of your website.

A few tips to look out for are:

*Have the right domain name
*Have the right IP Address
*Have content that is geo located

Don’t spend your time looking closely at geo meta tags, use tools where you can assign where your website is located e.g. assigning your domain to a category. An example of this is: Your domain ends with “.com” therefore you can use tools to set your location, to Australia, New Zealand etc.

Google’s variety of languages
Google’s Translate feature has now reached 51 languages. With unfamiliar websites in different languages, Google can now decipher languages and translate them within a few seconds! Although Google has this phenomenal translation feature it is not 100% accurate. I believe this will improve in time and also with additional languages. This feature is great to review documents, projects, emails, web pages!

To see all the languages you can visit http://translate.google.com