Yesterday (14 December 2007) saw a nice addition to the data available through the Google Webmaster Tools application. Content Analysis shows issues relating to content and meta data that might deter Google from crawling or indexing your site including long page titles, short meta description, duplicate meta data, non-indexable content.
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Around August last year Google began testing a new feature in search results. This was to place map drop downs for businesses and places underneath the natural listing:
Google has announced a change in its personalised service. It has now combined the two personalisation services into one service. So whereas before you could have a personalised homepage but not have personalised search, as I do, this is no longer possible. If you are singed into Google it will automatically turn on the personalisation.
You can read the official google announcement here
Personalized Search is Google’s attempt at making searches more relevant to the searcher. Using Personalized Search, you can:
With the web becoming busier and busier sites are needing to find new ways to set themselves apart from the crowd. Many will go with the user experience with involves using so called web 2.0 technologies to enhance user experience. AJAX is one technology that uses XML and JavaScript to create a flash like effect to pages. Others provide customer review sections to provide additional information to users surfing the web. This is resulting in the sites becoming more complex in nature and offering more and more in one place.