Google is planning to change the way it blends news results and web search results, co-arranging links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events. The new format will replace OneBox news links that have normally appeared at the top of a search result page, such as shown below:
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Recently Google, Microsoft and Yahoo got united to support sitemaps. And now, the three joined by Ask.com are supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will automatically locate your sitemaps file if the location of your sitemaps is listed in a robots.txt file.
In the past, if you created a sitemap, you then had to manually submit it to the search engines. With this announcement, search engines will check your robots.txt file for a link to a sitemaps file, then get the file from that location. This is a big plus because all the major search engines regularly check robots.txt files as part of their ordinary crawling.
To add the sitemap location, just put a line like this anywhere in your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: LOCATION-OF-SITEMAPS-FILE
Replace the LOCATION-OF-SITEMAPS-FILE with the actual location. For example, if www.oliveglobal.co.uk has a sitemap file called sitemap.xml in top level, the reference would be like this:
Sitemap: http://www.oliveglobal.co.uk/sitemap.xml
But waht to do if you have more than one sitemaps file? Ideally, you'd create a special "sitemaps index" file that links to all of them, then put a link to the sitemaps index file in your robots.txt file. If that sounds like too much work, you can have more than one sitemaps URL listed in the robots.txt file.
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Mitchell Harper, owner of Harpzon.com has written a Windows program that would comparatively analyze the content of articles posted on Digg with the content of those he has come up with to tell us whether or not our articles stand a chance of getting to Digg's front page.
You can download and run on your Windows PC here:
It's just a simple little Windows application where you type in the headline of your article and a summary (as you would on Digg). You then click the "Calculate Digg-a-Meter Result" button and you will see the statistical probability of your article landing on Digg's front page, based on about 8 different comparisons and calculations that appear to be common among about 80% of the articles that get on Digg's front page.
Here's an example:
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No matter what Yahoo and MSN claim, but they can never match up to the innovative ideas of Google. Once again leaving both Yahoo & MSN stunned, Google has launched the Hindi version of Google News. Taking in account the large population of Hindi speeking people, this service is bound to be a hit. This service was developed at the Google’s Bangalore Centre.
Google has recently launched the Hindi version of Google News that collects news headlines and descriptions from some of the most popular Hindi news sources like Navbharat Times, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, BBC Hindi, Yahoo! India, MSN India and Sify Hindi.
Users can also subscribe to these Hindi News RSS feeds. The Hindi version of Google News will show news items published dring the last 30 days.
Google is planning to introduce this news service in more Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and many others.
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