Search Camp in Chennai

Search Camp is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Search Engine Marketing space to talk about Search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. This event is the first of its kind in India and will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of Search Engine Marketing. Everyone is. Search Camp runs as an unconference, where everyone is an organizer and there is no passive audience. So it is as much your event. The overall co-ordination is being done by The Knowledge Foundation, the same group behind events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, WikiCamp.in and Proto.in.

The event is scheduled for the 6th & 7th of October 2007, and the venue is at the Main Auditorium, Tidel Park, Chennai

To Participate in this camp, please visit Searchcamp.in

Age of Search Engines

1993 Aliweb Launch
1994 WebCrawler Launch
1994 Lycos Launch
1995 AltaVista Launch (part of DEC)
1995 Excite Launch
1996 Inktomi Founded
1996 Ask Jeeves Founded
1997 Northern Light Launch
1998 Google Launch
1999 AlltheWeb Launch
2000 Teoma Founded
2004 Yahoo! Search Final launch (first original results)
2004 MSN Search Beta launch
2005 MSN Search Final launch
2006 Quaero Founded
2006 Ask.com Launch
2006 Windows Live Search Launch
2006 Quintura Launch
2006 AnooX.com Beta launch

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Google Friends Newsletter

April 2006

Hello, Google Friends, and welcome to the April edition of this newsletter. We hope you enjoy this update on our various services and new products, and find it useful.

POWER TIP

More ways to personalize the Google homepage Now it's easier than ever to personalize your Google homepage with more content ranging from local weather to custom Google logos, and headlines from sources like CNN and ESPN. If you're so inclined, it's easy to create your own modules using our API.
Directory: http://www.google.com/ig/directory
API: http://www.google.com/apis/homepage

NEW PRODUCTS

Google Calendar
Here's a new web-based way to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with others, and find new things to do via one online calendar. Google Calendar works with other calendar applications, is integrated with Gmail, and you can even set up multiple calendars for work, leisure, and family activities. View your schedule by day, week or month and set up automatic reminders and find anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.
http://calendar.google.com

Toolbar for Firefox v2
The new version of the Google Toolbar for the Firefox browser is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. There's an enhanced search box, safe browsing, and several smarter browsing features including spelling corrections, search history and instant suggestions.
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar

Share with Google Reader
Google Reader, which helps you keep track of the latest content from websites you like to read regularly, just added the ability to share items you're labeling or starring with your friends, family and anyone else who's reading. Send a link to your starred items in Reader, or put a clip on your blog with recent items from your reading list. Friends can then subscribe to a feed of items you've selected (even if they don't use Google Reader) and visitors to your blog can see it in the sidebar, too. To get started with sharing, just click the "Share" link in Reader.
http://reader.google.com

Gmail Mac Notifier
Mac users will be pleased to know that a new version of the Gmail Notifier - a small download that alerts you to new messages - is now available. It sports new icons, and runs on both PowerPC Macs and the new Intel-based Macs. Extra bonus: it will notify you when a new version is available and automatically upgrade itself.
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/

Joga.com
In partnership with Nike, Google has introduced Joga.com, an online community for people crazy about football, or soccer as it's known in the U.S. Joga combines Google technology with Nike's unique sports content and access to players and brings people all over the world together to celebrate their shared passion for the game. Joga members can build their own groups and clubs, share all kinds of football-related information, upload photos and video, and organize and give updates on local matches and events. Members keep current with Friend Requests, Alerts, and Messages. And in the coming months, Google and Nike will be bringing out more tools and features to help Joga members embrace their love of football in this global online setting.
By the way, the name comes from the Portuguese phrase "Joga Bonito" or "play beautiful."
http://www.joga.com

MISCELLANY

The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google
Together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Google is promoting the upcoming film "The Da Vinci Code" through a time-limited interactive contest on the Google personalized homepage. This began on April 17, and each day until May 11, Google will release one Da Vinci Code-style puzzle or riddle. Finalists then compete on May 19, the date of the film release. To enter the contest, sign in to your Google account and add the Da Vinci Code Quest module to your Google homepage. You will see a new puzzle to complete each day at 1 p.m. EDT. The first 10,000 participants who correctly solve all 24 daily puzzles and submit a completion form will win a replica of the cryptex described in Dan Brown's book, and use the tool to compete in the final phase of the contest (five more time-sensitive puzzles). The grand prize winners in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia will win trips to the film premiere.
Go here to register and play:
http://www.google.com/davincicode

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com

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GAME: Guess-the-google

About the game: Montage-a-google is a simple web app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Guess-the-google reverses this process by picking the keywords for you, the player must then guess what keyword made up the image - it's surprisingly addictive. The game requires version 8 of the Flash player or higher to run, you can get the latest version here. I hope you enjoy the game, happy guessing! PLAY NOW
More information at http://www.dotcom-seo.blogspot.com/

GOOGLE videos now live

Hello all,

You have more work???? !!!

Do you want relaxation time???

GO

http://video.google.com/

Yes,

GOOGLE videos now live on our countries. Download option is there.

Note: but play only on google video player download it
http://dl.google.com/videoplayer/GoogleVideoPlayerSetup.exe


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Search Indexing Robots and Robots.txt

Search engine robots will check a special file in the root of each server called robots.txt, which is, as you may guess, a plain text file (not HTML). Robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which allows the web site administrator to define what parts of the site are off-limits to specific robot user agent names. Web administrators can disallow access to cgi, private and temporary directories, for example, because they do not want pages in those areas indexed.
The syntax of this file is obscure to most of us: it tells robots not to look at pages which have certain paths in their URLs. Each section includes the name of the user agent (robot) and the paths it may not follow. There is no way to allow a specific directory, or to specify a kind of file. You should remember that robots may access any directory path in a URL which is not explicitly disallowed in this file: everything not forbidden is OK.
The three most common items you will find in a robots.txt file are:
1. allow
2. disallow
3. wildcard or asterisk: "*"

If you want to know the more details about Robots.txt, please log on to following URL:
http://www.seo-news.com/

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