Archive for January, 2007

Google’s New Image Search

Google has done a terrible redesign of Google Images.  I was searching for a Paypal logo this morning and here is what i was presented:

Paypal search from google

Where are the information that we used to see from here before?? Image size, URL, filename.  I could say that this is one of the worst redesign i have ever seen!

The new design is similar to the old Google image, except that all the text or information that used to appear on the page is already hidden. You will need to mouse over the image to see the images’ information.The new design’s got a new cleaner look, it’s just that the information that used to be very useful were no longer there.

If you want to find out what website an image was from, or how big it is, you have to work for it (i mean mouse over on every image!), and there is no more way to compare the images against each other at a glance.

Google loves white spaces, i know but this is too much of a good thing.

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Philippine Search Engine Optimization

A Search Engine Optimization blog to primary focus is to provide information about search engines and to design search engine friendly pages. by Joann M Cabading

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Wikipedia now applying “nofollow” attributes

Wikipedia is now adding the “nofollow” attribute to its entire external links. In fact is already active.You might want to go to wikipedia.org now and start checking out. So what does this give you? Good thing or bad thing? Let’s see.

Wikipedia’s reason for doing this is to prevent spam links, like being practiced by those blackhat search engine optimizers. Searching for blogs, making comments, and spam the site by posting their URLs.

Initially the “nofollow” attribute was intended to spam blogs and such. It then became so popular in the realm of online advertising for the sole purpose of gaining link popularity. There was this time when Google, Yahoo, and others stated that “nofollow” attributes have to be used.

Finally, in my honest opinion, we should start using “nofollow” with our blogs. And i will definitely do this.

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