Google and Facebook Banned in China

The other weekend, I had a chat with a friend in Shanghai, China through yahoo messenger. We talked about her work there and some personal topics. I also asked her how is the living in Shanghai, China. She told me that she loves Shanghai and she is doing good over there. Her employer are also good. I asked her if she has a facebook account. I was greatly surprised when she told me that Google.com and Facebook are banned in China. I remember what she told as I read the daily German newspaper, Neumarkter Tagblatt this morning. One article today also mentioned that China don't only banned Google but Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, Technorati and other websites. I want to research later what are the inaccessible websites in China. if I am not mistaken these sites are not blocked in Hongkong and Macau where they have their own legal system. This is quite interesting. More updates to come about this.

Google Server Error

I guess, I don't know what's going on now. I can't find my friends followers in Google. It says in the widget, "Google Server Error. The server encounter a temporary error, etc...". I can't read the rest of the error message in the widget. Since it is only a temporary error, I guess I don't need to worry about it. I was deleting cookies last night in my computer, it might be the reason why that error occurred. Any idea from the experts out there? I will see until the end of the day, if the error is resolved. Enjoy your afternoon especially from friends in Europe!

What Happeded To Google Friend Connect?

Big G is great but what happened to Google Friend Connect? Anyway guys, It's TGIF again! I hope you will have a wonderful weekend. We are planing for sightseeing again this weekend. I hope that I will be feeling perfectly healthy this weekend. We always try to enjoy the summer here in Europe by going out every weekend and see some places. I love it!

Back to my main topic guys.. I found out last Wednesday that I can't find my friend's list or Google Friend Connect in some of my blogs. I don't exactly know what's wrong with it. I am not an expert and I'm sorry for that. Yesterday, I was also adding some friends in my google friend connect but it seems that there are some errors that always occurred. I forgot to copy that error codes.

I have a good news for you guys...Sometimes you just don't have to worry about this small things. Just today, I found again my friends listed on the sidebars of my blogs. I also bookmarked yesterday the blogs that I want to follow and be added to my google friend connect...Bingo! it's working this morning!@ so don't worry, we just have to be happy all the time when we can! Happy TGIF!

Blog-stats Update for My WWW Site

It seems that this blog of mine is getting better. I just check it's Google pagerank at prchecker.info and found out that from PR2, it is getting a PR3 now..Wow I am very happy. One year ago this blog have PR4. I guess that PR4 ran until September. I am just happy that it is one level higher now. Blogging is getting more exciting for me!

here are some blog-stats for this blog.

Google PR: 3 out of 10
Alexa: 316,733
Technorati : 72 and 93..old and new URL
Blogcatalog: 64.8 out of 100

some more blog stats according to pagerank.net
yahoo backlinks: 11,759
Google backlinks: 178
Google Index page: 369
Yahoo Index Page: 819
Alexa backlinks: 242

I guess these are so far the important statistics for this blog as of now. It seems that the stats in my side bar are still not updated until now. Hopefully tomorrow. happy weekend in advance!

Blog-Stats and Pagerank

I guess the most powerful site on the net has updated again Page ranking. You might probably know whom I am talking about here. It is no other than Google which I simply called Big G. I was surprised that my other site entitled Blog Connections got a PR2....hmmmm just confused how PR is really computed by Google. I already read about it before but it seems a little complicated for me. without further adieu here is some statistics of this site...

PR: 2 out of 10 (this was pr4 back in April 2008)
Alexa: 264,647
Technorati: 109
YBL: 11,417 (according to pagerank)
GBL: 146
Blogcatalog: 57.7 out of 100

I guess these are the most important statistics that I can share to you. I just do it once in a while to know how the standing or performance of this site.

Radiology Appoinment

My husband went to our house doctor the other Friday. He is always complaining about the pain in his left knee. I am not very sure if it was coming from his biking accident last August 5, 2007. His right ankle was operated because it was broken which was caused by this accident. The bad thing his left foot was not given attention that time I guess because the doctor concentrated on the broken ankle. I tried to find the calling card of the Radiologist but I can't find it anymore. What is the use of internet anyway. I quickly searched in Google all Radiology clinics near our place...and Bingo!! I got it. The bad thing as I called last Monday was that I can't book an appointment after 4 weeks because everything is full. Finally I found one clinic in Neutraubling that is available on Feb. 6, 2009. This is better as having appointment on Feb. 15. We will see what is the result of the examination. Thanks to the internet especially to Google for this free services!! More power!!

Google plans to launch web browser

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc plans to launch a web browser called Google Chrome in a challenge to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Monday.

The browser launch is likely to be announced soon, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.
Google did not immediately respond to calls and emails seeking comment.

Google Chrome is designed to make it easier and faster to browse the Web, by offering enhanced address-bar features and other elements that are very different from those on other browsers. The product will be open-sourced, meaning others can modify the code, according to the report.

Google has been working on the product for about two years, but work became more serious when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7, the Journal said. http://news.yahoo.com

What happened to Yahoo!!

Before I went to my dentist appointment this morning, I checked quickly my mails in Yahoo. I was able to signed-in but when I want to view my mails, it is not going through!! Any idea what's wrong with this???

I tired it a lot of times but it always says "INTERNAL ERROR SERVICE CONNECTION TERMINATED" What does this mean????

Of course to find my answer again??I consulted my wed doctor, Dr. Google..see just a click of your mouse and you can always find answer in your question!!! remember what did I said in my header!! Just browse and you will find, anything that matters in this vast universe is at your hands!!! originally from Ruby Benz.....the WWW Addict!!!wheww!!

Dr. G directed me to yahoo website question and answer portion..IESCT would probably means that Yahoo is having problems with the server at this time and are working on getting it fixed. and yes, it was fixed..I just signed and and have it now!!

Thanks to Yahoo and Google for your services!! Your great!!

Just Browse in Google

I am very thankful to the Google for the products and services they offer. Just this morning, I want to have an appointment with my dentist asap. I just got a problem with my tooth that needs a bit repair.

I don't know where I put the calling card of my dentist. I just browse the name of my dentist in Google and bingo!!...I got all the infos I need. I called asap and I got appointment for tomorrow!!

Thanks Big G for you services!! It really helps a lot for a WWW Addict like me..lol!!

You can never find out the true PageRank

How can you discover a page’s PageRank? You can use the Google toolbar. (I explain in a moment why you can never find out the true PageRank.) You should install the Google toolbar, which is available for download at toolbar.google.com. Each time you open a page in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, you see the page’s PageRank in a bar. If the bar is all white, the PageRank is 0. If it’s all green, the PageRank is 10.

You can estimate PageRank simply by looking at the position of the green bar, or you can mouse over the bar, and a pop-up appears with the PageRank number. If the PageRank component isn’t on your toolbar, click the Options button to open the Toolbar Options dialog box, select the PageRank checkbox, and click OK.

If you don’t have the Google toolbar, you can still check PageRank. Search for the term pagerank tool to find various sites that allow you to enter a URL and get the PageRank. Mozilla’s FireFox browser also has extensions that display the page rank in the status bar of every page.

Here are a few things to understand about this toolbar:

Sometimes the bar is gray. Sometimes when you look at the bar, it’s grayed out. Some people believe that this means Google is somehow penalizing the site by withholding PageRank. I’ve never seen this happen, though. I believe the bar is simply buggy, and that PageRank is just not being passed to the bar for some reason.

Every time I’ve seen the bar grayed out, I’ve been able to open the Web page in another browser window (you may have to try two or three) and view the PageRank.

Sometimes the toolbar guesses. Sometimes the toolbar guesses a PageRank. You may occasionally find it being reported for a page that isn’t even in the Google index. It seems that Google may be coming up with a PageRank for a page on the fly, based on the PageRank of other pages in the site that have already been indexed.

Also, note that Google has various data centers around the world, and because they’re not all in sync, with data varying among them, it’s possible for one person looking at a page’s PageRank to see one number, while someone else sees another number.

A white bar is not a penalty. Another common PageRank myth is that Google penalizes pages by giving them PageRanks of 0.

That is, if you see a page with a PageRank of 0, something is wrong with the page, and if you link to the page, your Web page may be penalized, too. This is simply not true. Most of the world’s Web pages show a PageRank of 0. That’s not to say that Google won’t take away PageRank if it wants to penalize a page or site for some reason. I’m just saying you can’t know if it’s a penalty or if it’s simply a page with few valuable links pointing in.

Zero is not zero, and ten is not ten. Although commonly referred to as PageRank, and even labeled as such, the number you see in the Google toolbar is not the page’s actual PageRank. It’s simply a number indicating the approximate position of the page on the PageRank range. Therefore, pages never have a PageRank of 0, even though most pages show 0 on the toolbar, and a page with a rank of, say, 2 might actually have a PageRank of 25 or 100.

The true PageRank scale is probably a logarithmic scale. Thus, the distance between PageRank 5 and 6 is much greater than the difference between 2 and 3. The consensus of opinion among people who like to discuss these things is that the PageRank shown on the toolbar is probably on a logarithmic scale with a base of around 5 or 6, or perhaps even lower.

Suppose, for a moment, that the base is actually 5. That means that a page with a PageRank of 0 shown on the toolbar may have an actual PageRank somewhere between a fraction of 1 and just under 5. If the PageRank shown is 1, the page may have a rank between 5 and just under 25; if 2 is shown, the number may be between 25 and just under 125, and so on. A page with a rank of 9 or 10 shown on the toolbar most likely has a true PageRank in the millions.

The maximum possible PageRank, and thus this scale, continually changes as Google recalculates PageRank. As pages are added to the index, the PageRank has to go up. How can you be sure that the numbers on the toolbar are not the true PageRank? The PageRank algorithm simply doesn’t work on a scale of 1 to 10 on a Web that contains billions of Web pages. And, perhaps more practically, it’s not logical to assume that sites such as Yahoo! and Google have PageRanks just slightly above small, privately owned sites.

I have pages with ranks of 6 or 7, for instance, whereas the BBC Web site, the world’s 25th most popular Web site according to Alexa, has a PageRank of 9. It’s not reasonable to assume that its true PageRank is just 50 percent greater than pages on one of my little sites. Here are two important points to remember about the PageRank shown on the Google toolbar:

• Two pages with the same PageRank shown on the toolbar may actually have very different true PageRanks. One may have a PageRank of a fifth or sixth, or maybe a quarter, of the other.
• It gets progressively harder to push a page to the next PageRank level on the toolbar. Getting a page to 1 or 2 is pretty easy, but to push it to 3 or 4 is much harder (though certainly possible), and to push it to the higher levels is very difficult indeed. To get to 8 or above is rare.

source: http://www.stylishdesign.com/you-can-never-find-out-the-true-pagerank

Webmaster Guidelines

I just read this very interesting and useful article in Google and decided to post in my page and want to share it to everyone esp. to All bloggers.. please read!! very important!!

Webmaster Guidelines

Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.

• Design, content, and technical guidelines
• Quality guidelines

When your site is ready:

• Have other relevant sites link to yours.
• Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
• Submit a Sitemap as part of our Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
• Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.
• Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

Design and content guidelines

• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
• Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
• Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
• Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
• Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
• Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
• Check for broken links and correct HTML.
• If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
• Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Technical guidelines

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
• Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.
• Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
• Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it's current for your site so that you don't accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you're using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.
• If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.
• Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.

Quality guidelines

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

Quality guidelines - basic principles

• Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
• Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
• Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

If you determine that your site doesn't meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and then submit your site for reconsideration.

source: Google Webmaster guide

Link Schemes

I just research this at Google..I really find this very useful esp. to bloggers. All bloggers this is very important...check it out!! so I guess, I will not make any more tags that won't reciprocate each and everyone..All bloggers.....very important ..Please read that's why I am sharing this to all of you!! here is the topic about Link Schemes!!

Link schemes

Your site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact your site's ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include:

• Links intended to manipulate PageRank
• Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
• Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.")
• Buying or selling links that pass PageRank

The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page's visitors?

It is not only the number of links you have pointing to your site that matters, but also the quality and relevance of those links. Creating good content pays off: Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing blogger community can be an excellent place to generate interest. In addition, submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

Once you've made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration.

If you'd like to discuss this with Google, or have ideas for how we can better communicate with you about it, please post in our webmaster discussion forum.

source:Google Webmaster