Goossip: October 2008 - Search engine and SEO

Last May 2009, Yahoo! bought Inquisitor plugin, which suggests selected keywords as one goes along entering letters into the search box, a particularity integrated into the browser, much like the option "Search Assist" already proposed on the Web by Yahoo! since a few months, or like "Google Suggest", integrated by default to the search engine.

The first version of Inquisitor was only available on the Safari browser and there was no doubt that new versions would arrive, allowing a wider dissemination of the tool. This is the case now with versions for Firefox and Internet Explorer that come to see the day. Still on the program, the possibility to run a search from suggested keywords beginning with the letters captured step by step, but also proposals of websites, sometimes in relation with sites recently visited by the user. Up to you to test it !

Image source: Yahoo!

See more:
http://www.inquisitorx.com/

Source(s) :
Inquisitor Expands to Firefox and IE (Yahoo!)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the Inquisitor query.

Search the whole web for the Inquisitor query.

Last April, Google launched a system to extract quotations within their search engine for daily news (Google News) called "Google In Quotes". In this first version, the extraction of quotes occurred only for the past month. Now, the engine has just announced that browse quotations could take place over the last five years.

The home page of the tool, which provides a selection of quotations from both candidates for the American elections (Obama and McCain), is also improved with expanded coverage supplied with people and topics of your choice (however, from a predefined list). Here is what was said by Eric E. Schmidt and Steve Ballmer (CEO of Google and of Microsoft) about their respective competitor:

Image source: Abondance

See more:
http://labs.google.com/inquotes/
http://labs.google.com/inquotes/#edition=4

Source(s) :
Five years of quotes in Google News (Google)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the google in quotes query.

Search the whole web for the google in quotes query.

According to the New York Times, Google should have purchased a new aircraft (after their Boeing 757 and 767 as well as their two Gulfstream V) in the form of a Dornier -Dassault-Breguet Alpha Jet, a fighter plane well known in France as it is on this type of aircraft that flies the famous "Patrouille de France".

The entire fleet - which is all of the company H211 LLC, itself owned by Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, the three managers of Google - is based on the airport in Moffett Field, which belongs to NASA and is located very near the headquarters of the company, based in Mountain View, California.

Image source: New York Times

See more:
http://www.patrouilledefrance.com/

Source(s):
A New (Fighter) Jet for Google's Founders? (New York Times)
NASA: Google execs' fighter jet is for research (Mountain View Voice)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the alpha jet query.

Search the whole web for the alpha jet query.

A few days ago, Google released their financial results which showed that this small business was not aware of the crisis, with profits of 1.3 billion dollars for a turnover of 5.54 billion, an increase of 31 per cent in one year.

A few hours later, it was the turn of Yahoo! to announce its results with a net profit of 54.3 million dollars, while it was 151 million twelve months earlier ... Result: Yahoo! should dismiss 10 per cent of its global workforce, or 1 500 posts, after the thousands already conducted earlier this year. It is not yet known what areas/ services and which countries will be affected first.

Yahoo! hopes though to make savings of 400 million dollars and hold up the serious crisis they are going through. Will that be enough for the portal and their CEO Jerry Yang ( photo below )? We hope for them ...

Image source: Yahoo!

See more:
http://info.yahoo.com/

Source(s):
Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results (Yahoo!)
Google Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results (Google)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the jerry yang query.

Search the whole web for the jerry yang query.

Google recently announced that they release the source code for Android to make it a 100 per cent Open Source project, provided under Apache licence. A new site, entitled " Android Open Source Project ", offers many tools such as mailing lists, programming guide lines and, of course, also the source code itself. Though Google expects that the developers' community will expand and improve the available applications on their customizable mobile platform.

Image source: Android

See more:
http://source.android.com/

Source(s) :
Android is now Open Source (Google)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the android query.

Search the whole web for the android query.

David Durand-Pichard, the vice-president of the "search engine optimizer" consultant' association SEO Camp, also in charge with issues relating to employment, introduced almost two weeks ago the results of the study that was carried out this summer within som hundred employers and recruiters.

According to this study:
- Over 54 per cent of the "search engine optimizer" consultants, recruited in France are self-taught. Some are more specifically self-taught in performing stand-alone SEO services, having by the way many and various kind of qualifications. All roads seem to lead to SEO: it does not relieve today a need to follow a specific path or route to practise this kind of activity.

- Two thirds of the companies that recruit receive, on average, only 5 CV by post. From the employers' own admission, the profiles of the candidates have very different qualifications, often insufficient. In short, there is more supply than demand and "qualified SEO" consultants remain rare pearls ...

- The wages of junior SEO are between 20 and 30 k Euros, 80 per cent of salaries are within the range 23-29 k Euros. Confirmed consultants' salaries lie rather in the range 32 - 35 K Euros, and recognized "experts" (who form a very exclusive club) are rather offered wages between 45 and 52 k Euros.

Image source: SEO Camp

See more:
http://www.seo-camp.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/l%25e2%2580%2599emploi-dans-le-referencement.ppt (Format PPT)

Source(s):
Etude sur l'emploi dans le référencement (SEO Camp)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the seo query.

Search the whole web for the seo query.

A few months ago, Google proposed a service entitled "First Click Free" available on Google News, their daily news research site. The idea behind is to index even restricted payable content requiring loging in to a publisher's Web site by allowing access to Google crawlers to go through its content. Thus, a site that suggests, for example, articles within a restricted fee payable space, with login request, will then "recognize" the Google crawler and "admit" it passing through to index the corresponding information. As Google has indexed the content, it becomes available to the surfers running for searches. The principle of this system would be that the first page found within the registrated area is available for consultation by the user free of charge, but to see the full text of the document and complementary information would require subscription and payment from users.

The idea is quite surprising, especially as Google's proposal here may be considered cloaking, a practice that has often been denounced as being spamdexing. On the other hand, some publishers of Web sites will certainly hesitate before providing payable content to Google for free ...

Source de l'image : Buckeye Secure

See more:
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=40543&topic=11707

Source(s):
First Click Free for Web Search (Google)

Search the search engine world with Goossip for the password query.

Search the whole web for the password query.

American users of iGoogle, the giant's system of personalized homepages, have at their disposal since last week an updated version of their tool offering "full-page views" of the available widgets. This updated version allows users to expand the page and though offer more contents. All without leaving iGoogle, of course, as for the time being the fact of "keeping people on hand" seems to be the common strategic vision for all the tools provided by the American portal...

Some details have been changed in the iGoogle interface, for example the tabs have been replaced by vertical left navigation links.

Source de l'image : Google

More...:
http://www.google.com/ig/v2landing

Source(s):
New Canvas View Gadgets for iGoogle (Google)

All the web pages for igoogle...

Since a long time, Google provides the service "Google Translate", a tool to help making automatic translations of texts and web pages online. Google also suggests since last week a gadget (commonly named "widget") - the announcement is recent but the tool's already available since a couple of months - as well as tags to apply to these tools.

The widget may be installed on a web page and offers the possibility to make an automatic translation of contents in the language chosen by the reader. The message ("Select langage" here below) is also translated approximately to make it understandable to the user. 35 languages may be selected for translation.

Image source: Google

Here you have it installed for this page:

Google also proposes to add the attribute value"class=notranslate" in your HTML code, when you don't want a part of a text to be translated.

Example :
Email us at <span class="notranslate">sales at mydomain dot com</span>

And if you don't want a whole page to be translated, simply add this meta tag in the "HEAD" part of the document:

<meta name="google" value="notranslate">

Links:
http://translate.google.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Source(s):
Helping you break the language barrier (Yahoo!)

All the web pages for google translate...

The "universal search" built up by Google, which consist to "cast" into the search engine's pages results information issued from diverse sources (daily news, images, videos, maps etc.), give us today a slight perception of the "portal strategy" employed by the American leader on his sites.

In fact, more and more, Google evolves from being a simple "hub" (a search engine served as an interface for the surfer who run a search and the Web pages providing the corresponding data) to become a "Web portal". Since long, Google has been for the users a quick point of access, through which traffic comes through, downloading a fraction of the webpages in a unified way, matching to the selected keywords, before being connected with the official Web site providing full information.

This time seems to gone by and it looks as though Google, in the eager to expand their services and to evolve, want to lenghten the time the websurfers stay on their results pages, on their site or, at the very most, on their multiple applications. No (more ?), today, to make the users slip away, he must at least stay in the Google Server domain, because of the high impact of advertising...

The universal search is a good example of this strategy system. Have a look at the page results powered by Google on a laptop screen for queries combined with a trade name and place (for example : "Hotel Washington", "Restaurant dallas", "Plumber New York"...):

What can you see ? Three sponsored links in the top ranking (pastel coloured frame assigned in the beginning of the list) – powered by Google of course – followed by a Map with links, the whole issued from Google Maps. On the right, 6 sponsored links – still Google – are displayed. The outcome ? Google everywhere... no much space for other results, except one with almost no visibility at the bottom of the screen, just "above the fold"... Of course, someone may object – rightly - that on a bigger screen the organic search results (issued from indexes which provide links to competitors sites like yellowpages.com among others) will then appear on the screen.

That's for sure, but the real visible space, (the famous"Golden triangle") is globaly being occupied by affiliated sites and links issued from "The big Google family"....

By the way it have been noticed that the search engine currently tries to download longer descriptions of the webpages :

It's in the nature of things : If the description is longer, it contains more information and the user will not always have to go to the official site to collect the information required. Having it featured... He may stay with Google. It happens certainly very often: You run a search for a specific information (email address, telephone number or anything) and you find it directly in the snippet (a fraction of the webpage containing a short text matching with the keywords powered by Google). The result : A missing visitor for the official site hold by the search engine...

Besides, at this stage it's hard not to ask the question in legal terms: Does Google have the right to provide an information on the behalf of the official site, to which the websurfer should be directed if Google kept his initial function as a search engine? Well, if Google displays the information instead of only indicating the source, doesn't Google exceeds his rights, his duties and customary business?? The websurfers may take some advantage but not the websites... Must we mess up description meta tags just not to cast too accurate information which may result to webusers no longer need to visit the official sites? These are important questions that we should keep in mind in the future...

It's well known since long that search engines are great to boost traffic. It's obvious. But one might reasonably ask the question about traffic being hold by these instead of driving traffic to the sites. Currently, it may be a minor practice, but it's interesting to survey the evolving of this phenomenon in medium term...

Images sources: Wikipedia / TechCrunch

SEOmoz, one of the most relevant Anglophone sources dedicated to search engine optimization, has built up a 30 billions pages index, being updated every month, at the benefit of their Linkscape tool, which allows you to "understand" and to analyze the links between the different Web pages.

Thus SEOmoz may indicate that on the Web, 58 percent are internal links (42 percent are though pointing on external links), that only 0,08 percent of the pages are using 301 redirect (0,12 percent use the 302 one), and that 1,83 percent are credited to the attribute value "nofollow" and at an average, a Webpage receive 32 internal and external "backlinks" etc.

This indexing should permit SEOmoz to go further analyzing more closely the Web structure and to examine the prevalence of the sources of information and of Web pages, like Google does with his PageRank, measuring individual page's value and importance of a site (analyzing support of backlinks in a website contents). However, a tool to follow up closely...

Yahoo! launched, some weeks ago, a competition destinated to challenge developers to create a new kind of search engine "with immediate entry" in using their offer BOSS (Build Your Own Search Engine).

The outcome of this competition has just been featured and the first price winner (with an award of 2 000 $) is KallOut, a search tool integrating a websearch fonction into a Wordfile or in an e-mail, and may allow you, just to give an example, to run a search just with the help of your computer mouse. They are followed by the site Socialmention (a "social search" tool which powers searches through blogs, daily news, videos etc.) who won an award of 1 000 $.

The whole winner list is available online with the 8 finalists.

Image source: Yahoo!

http://mashable.com/boss/
http://mashable.com/2008/10/14/boss-mashable-challenge-winners/
http://www.kallout.com/
http://www.socialmention.com/

Source(s) :
And the Winner Is... (Yahoo!)

All the web pages for boss...

Google Webmaster Tools, an interface for the seach engine's webmasters, offers since yesterday a new functionality to keep track of internal and external links ("backlinks") pointing to pages that don't exist anymore on your site and generate the error code 404. This service may be found under the index "Diagnostics", option "Web crawl", link "Not found"... These non found pages will then be displayed and a link labeled "Linked from" lists the URLs that are pointing by error on these pages...

It's also possible to save and download this list containing the information on your hardware by choosing the link "Download all sources of errors on this site". You only have to list all these kind of small problems on your site to make it possible to find you easier on the Web...

Image source: Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Source(s) :
Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources (Google)

All the web pages for google webmaster tools...

Google Street Views, or 360° panoramic street-level views of a great number of cities, are finally introduced in France since last night.

After providing camera icons taken from small towns and areas along the "Tour de France" route this summer, and having seen these "Google cars" travel along France since a couple of months, now it's Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille, Lille and Nice (and their nearby cities, towns, suburbs) that are selected for the same proceeding.

These photos can be viewed in four different sizes and most faces and number plates are blurred.

We're eagerly waiting for further locations to be added to this service...

Image source: Abondance

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=france&layer=c&ie=UTF8&z=5

Source(s) :
Google Street View déployé en France, mais pas partout (Zorgloob)
Google Maps Street View (Google)

All the web pages for google street views...

Google just lost, successively, two copyright cases in Germany over Image-Search service online.

The first case concerns the german photographer Michael Bernhard who accused the search engine the fact that Google displayed his copyrighted photo on their previews. Thomas Horn, holder of a number of comic copyrights, made the same charges against the American search engine.

Both of them won their cases in the First Instance. "The fact that the images displayed by Google are smaller and in a lower resolution than the original picture matter little", estimated the Court.

For the moment, Google doesn't seem to have communicated much on these cases neither indicate whether they intend to appeal the ruling or not...

Image source : Blogoscoped

http://images.google.com/

Source(s) :
Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Image-Search Previews (Bloomberg)

All teh web pages for google images lawsuits...

Search engines like A9, Yahoo! and Live already offer it, and soon Google will give the possibility to power search results through a RSS feed, as they confirmed last week on the Search Engine Land Site. The system will be working as an extension of Google's alerts, which for the moment only may be reached by mail. This new fonction should be available in a couple of weeks, at the latest in the course of November.

This is a piece of news, that should change the order for performance analysis tools and inspection of the ranking on Google's results list...

Source de l'image : Abondance

http://www.google.com/alerts/

Source(s) :
Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results (Search Engine Land)

All the web pages for alerts...

A new draft of Open Directory (or Dmoz), the huge public directory managed by voluntary editors, will it possibly be available within the next couple of months?

Anyway, a new person in charge, with the sweet name Emily, has been nominated by AOL (She posted her very first article on the search engine's official blog in order to respond to some frequent questions from netsurfers concerning Dmoz).

To follow, AOL continue indeed the development and internal tests of the Dmoz version 2.0. Not yet wide spread tests, but the tool is on the stage of debugging.

A project that, despite all, could be reconsidered in a way or another if the merging of Yahoo! and AOL will be concluded, as rumours suppose to say since some time now. We'll probably have further news not later than the end of this year...

Source de l'image : Dmoz

http://www.dmoz.org/

Source(s) :
Dmoz 2.0, du nouveau ? (Dmoz)
Ask AOL: Editors' Questions about DMOZ Answered (Dmoz)

All the web pages for dmoz...

No, the search engine Ask.com is not dead ! Despite some announcements and a quite bad communication some months ago, this historical main actor in web searches just launched a new design for their American market tool (the application for the French market hasn't been updated but it's not sure someone still handling it...).

The 3D approach, offering on the page a results list, images, videos etc. at the same time is abandoned and did'nt last for long. On the other hand, according to Ask.com, technologies like semantic researches should bee integrated to attempt to increase relevancy of results.

A "Q&A pairs" index has also been added, which provide the questions ands answers results found on the Web linked to the keywords chosen. All the other indexes are the common ones: "Web", "Images", and "News"... A "More" index give access to other tools from IAC, parent company of Ask.com : Maps, TV programs, videos, blogs, etc.

Well, nothing really revolutionnary, and you may think that this will not be enough to compete with the giant Google and his huge part of the traffic, but Ask.com shows at least that they are still alive and will certainly focus their attention on profit-making niche markets in the future...

Source de l'image : Ask.com

http://www.ask.com/?o=312

Source(s) :
Welcome To The New Ask.com! (Ask.com)
It's Here! The New Ask.com! (Ask.com)

All the web pages for ask.com...

Xippee is a very simple plugin, available for most of the current web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari), which allows you to focus your queries on the major search engines (working on 80 search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Live): when you display the results list and you select a word, it generates a small window which enables you to either add this word to your future queries ("+") or delete it ("-").

Nothing revolutionary, of course, for laidback surfers with knowledge of advanced syntax for search engines, but could be an advantage for beginners who aren't too much familiar to the mystery and subtilities about the possibilites available for these tools online to perform their queries.

Image source: Xippee

http://www.xippee.com/

Source(s) :
Affiner sa recherche avec le plugin Xipee (Ramenos Blog)

All the web pages for plugin...

This project was in the air, existed as a test version for a couple of months, and is now made public: The offer "AdSense for Games" with sponsored links included in Video Games, carried out following the take over of the company Adscape Media in February 2007, is now available for Video Games online produced with applications as Flash Player and JavaScript.

For this beta version, Google worked with game creators as PlayFish, Mochi Media, Demand Media and Konami. The advertising (text, image, video) may be included between different passages of play.

Video source: Google

http://www.google.com/ads/games/index.html

Source(s) :
Get in the game with AdSense for Games (Google)

All the web pages for video games...

This was rather logic: after his main competitors, it was most likely that Yahoo! launched his own system to mesure audience performance. Now it's done, since last Friday. Yahoo! Analytics, based on the performance of IndexTools, aquired last april, is for the moment only available for "Yahoo Small business" customers and to former users of IndexTools.

This tool is also expected to be able to track the traffic for free on websites as well as provide marketing performance in an almost real-time insight without waiting for the 24 hours treatment asked for by almost all his competitors. The launch of the improved tool is expected either end of 2008 or at the very beginning of 2009.

Here we have a brand new product added to the long list of similar offers like Google Analytics, Gatineau (Microsoft), XiTi, eStat, and other Weborama just to mention a few of them.... The competition will be rude within the next few months...

Image source: Abondance

http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/

Source(s) :
Introducing Yahoo! Web Analytics (Yahoo!)

All the web pages for analytics...

Wikia, the search engine created by the team that set up the encyclopedia Wikipedia, offer not since very long the program WISE, "Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions", a little bit along the same lines as the Yahoo!'s program "Search Monkey".

WISE allows to create applications (called "Wiseapp") which display in its search results information available on line: weather reports, beginning of articles, information about articles, etc. Several companies like Washington Post, AccuWeather or Digg, already use this service. Here are some examples:

Image source: Wikia

http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Intelligent_Search_Extensions

Source(s) :
How to Turn Your Blog Posts Into a Wikia Search Application (Wikia)

All the web pages for wikia...

ID Bot is a tool for analysis and auditing of web sites launched almost two weeks ago by the company ID Nova at the Ecommerce Fair 2008 held in Paris.

This tool allows of course to track missing pages (code 404) as well as failing index of audience performance, but also offers a number of useful services helping for website SEO: detecting incorrect titles and meta description tags (too short, too long, missing...), detecting of duplicate contents, working out keyword density, the running of sitemaps and redirections, sum up the number of pages per tree-style structure etc.

This service is charged according to the number of pages viewed on the site: from 340 Euros up to 5 000 Euros for 10 000 pages examined.

It’s also possible to try this application on 25 pages of a site, free of charge.

Image source: Abondance

http://www.idbot.fr/

Source(s) :
Abondance

All the web pages for audit...

Accoona search engine, created end of 2004, was backed up with a lot of publicity and communication (the presence of the President Bill Clinton at the inaugural Ceremony in New York etc.). Based on Fast's technology of search, Accoona had at this time great ambitions both on the Anglophone and worldwide web.

They just surrendered and all local sites give now the same goodbye message...

It's a pity, despite a few good ideas and a too late attempt to refocuse on a B2B solution Accoona couldn't resist against the hard and cruel competition on this market (and to the buying up of Fast by Microsoft ?)

Remember that the brandname Accoona came out from the Swahili saying "Hakuna Matata" that means "No problem, everything is under control" and have been brought to the knowledge of the public thanks to the animated feature film "The Lion King" produced by Walt Disney.

Unfortunately, the search engine proved wrong the meaning of his name...

Image source: Abondance

http://www.accoona.eu/

Source(s) :
Abondance

All the web pages for accoona...

Hakia search engine, created in April 2006, based on a mix of semantic analyses, ontology, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, just made public the new version of their users interface. This new version put forward an initiative that allow you to get "Trusted Results from Credible Sites". This initiative to put ahead "credibility", along the same lines as TrustRank, different from "popularity", dear to Google's PageRank, has been settled up in collaboration with documentalists and experts in outlined fields. They have made researches and notified the referenced sites around the specific domains chosen.

These kind of results are already available for keywords within healthcare, environment and medicine and should be extended in other fields in the next few months.

Image source: Hakia

http://hakia.com/
http://club.hakia.com/lib/

Source(s) :
hakia Offers a New Way of Searching:Venture Beyond 10 Blue Links (Hakia)

All the web pages for hakia...

Following an agreement between these two companies and according to the announcements made last July, Facebook added to his site the search engine "Live Search" for web searches in the US.

Microsoft's adCenter division will also supply with sponsored links at this market.

When you run a search, two options appear under the search form : "Search Facebook" and "Search the Web". This second choice leads you to a page of results under Facebook's identity but with results powered by Live.

This should boost the trafic on this engine who indeed meets some difficulties since a few months within the struggle against his two main competitors, Google and Yahoo!.

Image source: Live Search

http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.live.com/

Source(s) :
Facebook "friends" Live Search (Microsoft)
What are you looking for today? (Facebook)

All the web pages for facebook...

Last June, Google and Yahoo ! concluded a deal focused on the North-American area, upon which the Yahoo! Portal would display Google's sponsoring-links in the US and Canada during 4 years.

This agreement raised a general outcry among their competitors and other key actors putting forward the fact that this would state almost a monopoly position withing the on-line advertising field.

Today, these two actors announced that they will postpone to set up the deal in order to allow the American Departement of Justice to have an overall look into the ins and outs of the signed agreement.

However, they haven't yet been able to confirm the time to carry out the concluded agreement which should have initially take place on the forthcoming 11th October, after an already first postponement.

Jerry Yang (Yahoo!), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) discussing. Image source: Marketing Pilgrim

http://www.google.com/yahoogooglefacts/index.html

Source(s) :
Google, Yahoo delay ad deal (The Mercury News)

All the web pages for google+yahoo...

This probability is not unknown since, for several weeks, they talk about the highly likely possibility of a joint-venture between Yahoo ! and AOL.

According to the TechCrunch blog, it's most probable that the situation will get moving and that an agreement will be announced before the end of the month. Tim Warner, the owner of AOL, seems to be ready to agree upon a transfer of his portal to the benefit of Yahoo !, except the FAI subscriptions and under the condition that a third of the Yahoo ! capital would be available to the American group.

Image source: AOL

http://www.aol.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/

Source(s) :
Facebook "friends" Live Search (Microsoft)

All the web pages for aol yahoo...

Since several months Google cars travel throughout cities in Europe to take photos being used on Google map's "Street Views".
They have been seen lately in a lot of towns in France.

But it seems that in the Northern Germany, particularly in the area of Schleswig-Holstein, these cars are not appreciated, if we go by what some local politics say : "We wouldn't accept this ! We don't want to be exposed on internet with our houses." "You may see everything on these shootings ! They will throw our houses open to criminals". "Google should grant for permission to proceed this way, but we would refuse"(Reinhold Harwart, CDU). "This is alarming !" (Gabriele Hiller-Ohm, SPD). "These files may be used by criminals" (Thorsten Geißler, CDU). "We just can't permit this" (Rainer Voß, maire de Ratzeburg).
This seems perfectly clear...

Good Luck to those drivers of Google cars who will be coming to this region (Apparently Google has postponed all shootings of Schleswig-Holstein area for at least this year)... :-)

Image source: Flickr

http://maps.google.com/

Source(s) :
Nord-Gemeinden rebellieren gegen Google (Lübecker Nachrichten)
Politicians Of Some German Cities Ponder Banning Google Cars (Google Blogoscoped)

All the web pages for street views...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Inquisitor, the Yahoo! plugin, now available on Firefox and Internet Explorer

Updating of In Quotes, a quote extraction search tool within Google News

Google's Air fleet have been enriched with a Jet

Google / Yahoo! : One is reaping profits, the other dismisses...

Google releases the source code for Android

SEO Camp publishes a study about the profession as a "search engine optimizer" consultant in France

Monday, October 27, 2008

First Click Free: Google wants to index restricted payable content requiring loging in...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Google offers full-screen views of their widgets

Google Translate: more tools for automatic translation

Friday, October 17, 2008

Search engines, traffic eaters?

SEOmoz : a 30 billions pages index dedicated to SEO

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Boss Mashable Challenge : And the winner is...

Google helps you to keep track of failing backlinks...

Google Street View, now introduced in France

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Google Images loses two copyright cases in Germany

Google will soon offer a RSS feed of its search results

An Open Directory 2.0 available shortly?

New version for Ask.com

Xippee, a plugin to focus your searches

Adsense for Games: Google introduce advertising into Video Games

Monday, October 13, 2008

Yahoo! Analytics, new audience performance tool

Wikia launches a new program to enhance the display of its results

ID Bot, an interesting auditing tool for SEO

Friday, October 10, 2008

Accoona, no Matata !!

A new version and credible results for Hakia

Live Search becomes integrated to Facebook in the US

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Google and Yahoo ! postpone the settlement of their Advertising agreement

A joint-venture between Yahoo ! and AOL ?

Google cars are not welcome in Germany

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