October
An article originally posted on googleblog.blogspot.com
“Until now, alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over. Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible than ever.
Once you sign in to Google Alerts and create an alert, you can opt for feed delivery by clicking ‘Edit’ next to your alert on the ‘Manage Your Alerts’ page and changing your ‘Deliver to’ selection from ‘Email’ to ‘Feed’ (click on the image to see larger).”
Read the full article at googleblog.blogspot.com
If you’ve been wanting to monitor all websites, news, blogs, videos and groups indexed by Google, now is the time to get your Google alerts configured – RSS is up and running!
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October
An article originally posted on Search Engine Land
Katherine Boehret wrote, “In about a month, Google will begin delivering these alerts to users via feeds, as well as emails.”
Read the full article at searchengineland.com
This is a major enhancement from Google. Allowing people to subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor results is extremely useful.
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September
An article originally posted on www.readwriteweb.com
“We’ve covered the launch of Google’s new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the enterprise with Google Apps, which received a further boost this week with the launch of Google Video for Business.
However, there is a lot of work needed to get Chrome ready for the office. Already our readers have noticed compatibility and usability issues that will hamper enterprise adoption.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In this article, the author evaluates the readiness of Google Chrome for use in a corporate environment. All in all, it seems to mostly come down to the lack of ActiveX support in Google’s latest browser.
Personally I think that the lack of ActiveX support is a “good” thing. It is not Google Chrome that needs to change, it is the applications using ActiveX.
With Google Chrome, the user base of Internet Explorer will most likely continue to decline, hopefully forcing vendors to finally evolve and use standard technology, making the web a better place both for users and web app developpers.
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June
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Is Microsoft’s vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to Google? That’s what Tim O’Reilly argues in a blog post today, and I don’t think he could be more wrong.”
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Starting from what seems like a misunderstanding, both Tim O’Reilly and Michael Arrington exchange interesting views on the importance of competition in the search market.
I agree with Michael that competition is important in the sense it drives innovations otherwise unexpected in a monopolistic situation. However I personally think this competition could come from an outsider as evolving technology is making search engine building easier and easier. In a near future competition will only be about innovation - provided you have sufficient ressources to implement it.
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April
An article originally posted on Google Webmaster Central
“Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we’ve started experimenting with recently.”
Read the full article at googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
It’s good to see that Google is still innovating in the web search field. This opens up a world of new possibilities for SEO’s and accessibility of hidden web content. I’m still wondering how they will handle all the corner cases of submitting forms with robots, from looping links to side-effects of posting random content on websites…
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