Google Answers Shut Down
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Google announced that they are shutting down one of their earliest service - Google Answers. Launched in April 2002 with a small 4-person team and went out of Beta in May 2003, Google Answers was one of the very first project Google worked on.Google Answers was just an “great experiment”, as how Google called it. Anyways, Google will stop accepting new question later this week, and will stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year. Questions and Answers will be available to browser online however.
Although Google didn’t say what’s the cause to shutting it down, but here’s probably the answer from Google Answers: What has happened to Answers?(via Google OS) It’s really sad to see Google Answers being shut down. Unlike Google X, Answers has been around for years, even though I don’t use it at all. Bye, Google Answers.
[Via - Googlified]
Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire.
The people who participated in Google Answers -- more than 800 of them over the years -- are a passionate group committed to helping people find the information they need, and we applaud them for sharing their incredible knowledge with everyone who wrote in.
If you have a chance, we encourage you to browse through the questions posted over the last 4+ years. Although we won't be accepting any new questions, the existing Qs and As are available. We'll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year.
Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of material for developing future products to serve our users. We'll continue to look for new ways to improve the search experience and to connect people to the information they want.
Labels: Google
posted by Seo Space @ 6:11 PM,
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Weebly - Online AJAX Website Creator
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Weebly, a new Web Servie to create Online AJAX based websites, analogous to pages.google.com but much more than Google Page Creator service.
Weebly, currently in beta are accepting signups and providing attractive GUI for site creation (on weebly.com - domain i.e. usersite.weebly.com). unlike to Google Pages it has various attractive themes, elements to drag on to site while editing like maps, videos, a Flickr badge and an RSS feed reader.
One can even export the created site to a Zip file can be useful if you want to host your site on a different server, or to back up your site for recovery purposes.
Weebly's AJAX-based editor allows complex elements to be dragged onto a page, such as a Google Maps element, or a Flickr feed. No HTML knowledge is required. To customize these elements, double click them and choose from a simple set of drop-down options.
So you dont have to be more skilled to make and play on your own site with easy drag and drop fetaure either to delete or add anything to your site. Although ranking or optimizing same for search engines is yet be seen.
Via -[Weebly.com]
posted by Seo Space @ 7:44 PM,
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Google Introduces Sitemaps for Google News
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Just a month or so Google revealed inclusion in Google News, now it introduces Sitemaps for Google News.
According to Google Webmaster Central Blog , webmasters of English-language sites, which have already have their sites included in Google News can create News Sitemaps to tell google news service exactly which articles to crawl for inclusion in Google News.
The News Sitemaps XML definition lets specify a publication date and time for each article to help in processing fresh articles in timely fashion. Through it one can also specify keywords for each article to inform the placement of the articles into sections on Google News. One have to verify site to enable News feature enabled.
Rest of the process for webmasters of such sites can
be seen at - Google Webmaster Central Blog
Also See -
Request Google News for Inclusion
Sitemaps
posted by Seo Space @ 8:40 PM,
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Search Engines Unites for Sitemaps
Google, Yahoo and MSN as Well unites but only for one common reason i.e - Sitemaps
According to Googleblog , Yahoo ! and Microsoft are joined Goolge for officially supporting the Sitemap Protocol , Which let webmasters/ SEOs to inform search engines about URLs in their websites, so that search engines bots/ crawlers could effectively crawl them. For site owners, Sitemaps will help improve website visibility in search results.
Website - http://www.sitemaps.org
Google released it under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. Moreover its second time that search engines majors cooperating for one common reason after no-follow of Blogs comments.
Via - Googleblog
Labels: Feed, Google, Webmaster
posted by Seo Space @ 7:54 PM,
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Quintura - A New Visual Web Search
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Quintura has taken its visual search engine to the web. Previously, a download-able search software application, Quintura has recently launched a slick looking web version that is powered by the Yahoo search. The search engine returns either web and image results in a, Quintura Cloud, a visual relationship cloud (similar to a tag cloud), that reminds me of Visual Thesaurus. See Here - http://www.quintura.com/
Quintura is focused on making its search experience enjoyable and easily shared by offering users a "share" option to the right of the Quintura Cloud. You might notice Quintura also enables searchers to "save" a search which definitely has utility if you frequently run the same searches.
Quintura makes searching aSource Via-http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2006/11/quintura_launch.html
visual experience which ultimately makes it unique and
memorable
posted by Seo Space @ 7:58 PM,
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Gmail For Mobiles
Gmail for Mobile, a downloadable gmail application for java-enabled phones, launches has launched. Previously, users were only able to access gmail via a mobile browser. But for java-enabled phones, using the Gmail for Mobile application will significantly speed email use.
The application requres a java-enabled phone and a data plan (other mobile devices can still access Gmail
A demo of the application is available here -http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/
Labels: Google
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