Google, Yahoo, MSN Live: the most popular words of 2006.
December 19, 2006
As every year, Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN Live has published a ranking of searches done in 2006 by users.
The classification of Google is characterized by the absence of Britney Spears, the queen of Yahoo and MSN.
In Yahoo , women dominate the classification and Britney Spears, for the fifth consecutive year, is confirmed as the most wanted online. Among the events of the year, which is more sensitive to users, has been the demise of Steve Irwin, known as the “Crocodile Hunter.” The situation in Iraq and Lebanon are in the third and fourth position respectively, and the U.S. elections in fifth, ahead of the health problems of Fidel Castro.
Finally, in MSN Live , Ronaldinho, the Barcelona player, is the most searched on the web insurance for the World Cup in Germany this year and the victories with the team at Barcelona. < >
Sitemap 0.90, the new standard for search engines
December 13, 2006
Google in its day, made available to the webmasters Google Sitemaps , a very comprehensive tool that facilitates the indexing of the pages in the search engine Google . Moreover, Yahoo uses a less sophisticated method for this task: the listing of the url’s in the web in a text file with the name urllist.txt .
Since last October this year, the Sitemap Protocol created by Google , which consists of a file XML with a defined structure that allows to reveal Search Engines information on the pages of a website , has become a standard for all three major search engines on the network: Google Yahoo and MSN . < >
As to this action, Yahoo has made available to webmasters
Site Explorer your own tool to manage the Sitemap , whose goal is the same as the Google Sitemaps . Meanwhile, MSN still does not give us any tools to make stable management.
In
sitemaps.org , official website of this standard, you can find technical information on the structure XML that must have the Sitemap to to optimize the process of indexing pages .
Yahoo grows more than Google
December 6, 2006
Anyway, MSN search engine Microsoft , has been the only one who has lost traffic and users, but it seems that with the new MSN Live , the company is trying achieve better results in the coming months.
