David Eaves informed that UK based users who are trying to reach Yahoo.com now being redirected to Yahoo! UK domain.
Flyerguy a memebr of Webmaster World has also confirmed in his post that German users are also redirecting to Yahoo! German domain.
According to Barry Schwartz this has to do with Yahoo Now Showing Geo-Location Under Search Ads. Yahoo has told him that they rolled out that feature last “week with the roll out of a new “geo labels” feature.” He feels that same geo-technology was applied to this.
But in India I am still reaching www.yahoo.com domain instead of http://in.yahoo.com but last few days it is showing two search options Search Web and Search India. That wasn’t before.
If you seach with any of the option, Yahoo shows &fp_ip=IN in its search result URL. In India, www.yahoo.com is not redirecting yet but search results are fetching from Indian IP addresses.
Now Google Webmaster Tools has added 4 new languages and increased total number of languages to 26. The 4 new languages are
Arabic
Hebrew
Hindi
Thai
The already available 22 languages of Google Webmaster Tools are British English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and US English.
I didn’t find any updates from Yahoo! officials. Is Yahoo dropping Search Marketing completely? or they are dissolving the Ambassador program? or is for the time being? All speculations are moving around.
Forum members say they can still log in and see their reports. What’s going on, Yahoo?
Google announced that landing page load time evaluations or Landing Page Load Time on the Keyword Analysis Page. This factor load times will be part of ‘Quality Scores’ starting mid june.
In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page.
Yahoo! has launched Glue pages in Yahoo! India. Glue Pages mix search results with visual information from the best sites anywhere on the Web. User can browse images, videos, articles and more all on one page.
Gopal Krishna, Head of Audience, Yahoo! India said:
Searching on Glue Pages Beta will result in an experience that promises more than just web links. Users will receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the Web in one topical page. The new Glue Pages Beta feature for Yahoo! India Search supports our strategy to make Yahoo! the starting point on the Internet and demonstrates our commitment to provide a compelling online search experience.
YouTube has launched a localised version of YouTube for India. Localised site (youtube.in and youtube.co.in also works) is focusing on video content relevant to India that reflect what Indians are watching.
Speaking at the launch, Steve Chen, chief technology officer and co-founder of YouTube, said, “We are very excited to bring a local version of YouTube to India considering the passion of users here for music and entertainment. For a culture that is steeped both in video and in storytelling, and where everyone has a voice — YouTube India will not only offer Indian users more relevant content but also provide a platform to share India’s unique and diverse culture and lifestyle with the largest online video community in the world.”
Adding to it, Sakina Arsiwala, international manager of YouTube, said, “YouTube allows anyone with a simple Web camera or even a cell phone to create content, connect, and converse with each other through the medium of video. It provides a powerful way for people to express themselves. From a home video to a magic show to classroom lectures or working professionals connecting with their families in another city, YouTube is about communication and not just entertainment.”
According to IndiaTimes, partners for the launch are, among others, Zoom channel from the Bennet Coleman & Co, UTV and Rajshri Group.
Yesterday, Google AdSense informed that they have integrated Custom Search Engine (CSE) into AdSense for search, so you can take advantage of CSE’s most popular features without having to leave your AdSense account.
This new feature gives you the following benefits: site search, improved indexing of pages, vertical search, Tuning search results and ads with keywords, selecting ad location, and more.
Just visit your AdSense Setup tab and select ‘AdSense for Search’ as your product to get started with above features. Once you’ve set up your search box, you may wish to explore more advanced features such as site exclusion, labels, and collaboration. Please note that these new features will only be available to you if you’ve migrated your account to a Google Account.
Yesterday, Yahoo! search has released new SearchScan feature which will protect users from viruses, spyware and spam websites.
It is influenced by Macfee’s SiteAdvisor technology. This SearchScan is turned on by default for all users in the U.S., Canada, India, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain.
SearchScan will protect mainly three types of risks: Browser Exploits, Dangerous Downloads and Unsolicited Email. According to Yahoo!:
Browser Exploits — These are sites that can stealthily harm a user’s computer or install malware simply by visiting the site. Beginning today, any such sites or pages included in McAfee’s data will be removed from search results automatically. Dangerous Downloads — SearchScan will display warnings next to search results for sites that offer potentially dangerous software, such as viruses, spyware or adware. Users often may be unaware that these can be passed along with the screensavers, games and other software downloads. Unsolicited Email — SearchScan will alert users to scanned sites that send unsolicited emails or inappropriately share email addresses with third parties.
It is a nice move by Yahoo! to provide safe search to its users.
Google is now supporting Unicode 5.1 and now available in search. Last month, the Unicode Consortium had announced the release of Unicode 5.1. Unicode encoding – which can be used for a variety of languages, not just the smaller set supported by ASCII and others – has become the most popular encoding on the web since December 2007.
Now a days mostly web pages are using vairety of different character coding from ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows 1252, or Unicode and the problem is most encodings represent only few languages, but Unicode will handle anything Chinese to French to Arabic.
According to Google, Unicode is the most popular and frequently used coding on the Internet, even surpassing the likes of both ASCII and Western European encodings.
Recently Google Adwords Blog announced Google TV Ads. Now you can put advertising on television from your computer with your Google account. Since June 2007 this program was in beta test, now this is available to all US based advertisers even offering a $2,000 promotional credit towards creating a professional TV commercial..
With this program advertisers manage TV ad campaigns through Google Adwords campaign. This Google TV Ads program is a flexible, all-digital system for buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. Using the familiar AdWords interface, you can launch a TV advertising campaign in minutes.
You can through a Demo how actually this could be possible and bring more revolution in Advertising.
