Digg Soon In Bag Of Google?

According to TechCrunch, Google and Digg reportedly signed a letter of intent, and would be (finally) on the verge of agreeing on a price of around 200M $ (200 million dollars, roughly 130 million Euros) .

This is actually several months as rumors of takeover revolve around Digg. Community website in 2004, Digg is experiencing great popularity that attracts necessarily coveted. But the sale is a possibility that does not like Digg users who have already threatened to desert the ranks if such event were to materialize. The creator of Digg, Jay Adelson, had had to calm the wind of revolt, saying that rumors of takeover by Microsoft or Google were unfounded. Yet, these same rumors back in charge.

SEO Recommendations By Google For Website Owners!!

I was reading an article on Google regarding What is an SEO? Does Google recommend them? And I found something very interesting there. Initially that article was mainly focused on providing negative information about SEO like SEO scam information and the disadvantages of SEO. But now they have re-written that article and supported the SEO techniques and valuable services.

Google have recommended some valuable services of SEO for website owners in its article. That includes:

• Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure
• Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
• Content development
• Managing online business development campaigns
• Keyword research
• SEO training

Google have also suggested the website owners regarding when they should hire a SEO for the website. In its article, Google recommend that an SEO should be hired at the starting level of website design or before the website launching. So that a website owner and SEO can make a website Google friendly and remove all the technical errors/reasons from the website that could affect negatively to the website in the future.

Google Included Hindi In Its Translate Service

Google has launched the Google Translate in Hindi. This feature will give an ease to users to convert from English to Hindi.

Users can avail this service at http://www.google.com/translate_t and view any page from English to Hindi. In addition you can also type using your normal keyboard. For example if you type “aap”, it will automatically convert into Hindi. You do not need to use any special keyboard to type Hindi sentences.

Also you can add an iGoogle Gadget and get access to Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and create their own scraps or blogs in these languages.

Presently Google Translate Service allows for translation of English into 14 languages including Arabic and Hindi. The company announced on its web site that it is working to include more languages.

"We're working to support other languages and will introduce them as soon as the automatic translation meets our standards. It's difficult to project how long this will take, as the problem is complex and each language presents its own unique challenges," Google added.

Google Slips in China

A new report shows Baidu.com Inc. increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google Inc. lost ground despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations.

Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last year, according to a report (in Chinese) by Peter Lu, managing partner and chief analyst at China IntelliConsulting Corp. (CIC).

Meanwhile, Google saw its share of the market shrink, falling 1.1 percentage points to 23 percent.

Google's decline was offset somewhat by improved performance among students during the most recent six months. But the company continued to lose its older, more affluent users to Baidu, the report said.

These figures are likely to step up the pressure on Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to deliver results for the company. Google China has grown quickly, hiring hundreds of staff and moving into a new building close to the campus of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. But these investments have yet to deliver the hoped-for domination of China's search market and raised concerns the company expanded too fast in the country.

Those concerns came to a head in April, when Google admitted that a software tool released by its Chinese operations used a database developed by rival Sohu.com Inc. for a competing product -- a stunning admission for a company that is widely respected for the strength of its engineering operations and the caliber of its software developers.

The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved.

Other search engines also saw their share of the search market decline. Yahoo China, which is run by Alibaba.com Inc., saw its share drop 2.9 percentage points to 2.3 percent of the market, while Sohu.com's Sogou search engine fell 1.4 points to 1.8 percent.