Archive for April 4th, 2006

April 4

Google Sitemaps: Very Impressive!

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I’m impressed by the Stats provided by Google Sitemaps. It’s stuff I’m really interested in. Rankings, clicks, content words and link words, listed and downloadable in .csv format. What does Google think about webmasters choosing to disclose this info to their visitors? I think it would be useful to some. They also have queries that […]

April 4

Google Maps API Version 2 Released

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Google recently released version 2 of its popular Google Maps API. Based on changes in the Terms of Service, there’s no question about whether ads will appear in the API. The question is “when?”
The Terms of Use don’t say anything about sharing map ad click revenues. I think Google WILL share money with eCartographers and […]

April 4

Yahoo! Mindset sorts results based on commercialism

Posted by Elliot
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A very interesting (and useful!) idea, I think. What if you wanted to do this with Google? Is it possible?
View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).

April 4

Google Search blog is back

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Sorry, we were offline for a couple days due to a problem with the domain registration. I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again!