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Matt Cutts Interview
Aaron Wall at SEOBook has an interview with Google Engineer Matt Cutts. The interview is chock full of solid information for SEOs, so don't neglect to read it.
Yahoo! Podcasts Now Live
We announced earlier this morning Yahoo's plans to launch their podcast search service sometime today. Well, the service is now live and available at this url. Also, there's the introduction from the Yahoo Search Blog which I forgot to link earlier.
New Look and Features for AOL Search
AOL search -- powered by Google -- have launched a new search interface, incorporating new look and features. Wendy Boswell -- who thinks there are valid reasons to use AOL search over Google -- has a profile of the changes.
My personal opinion: A few nice concepts, but let down by being mostly sluggish and over-engineered.
Google Officially State, No Office Suite
Following much rumour, continuing even after the anti-climatic Sun / Google press conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has finally laid to rest the possibility of a fully fledged Google Office Suite:
"We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below). However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go.
Web 2.0 organizer John Battelle" I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly," he told Battelle. However distributed thin web applications allowed you to do "new and better things than the Office package and more."
Hotmail BETA Screenshots
Ravings of a Mad Tech post some preview screenshots of the new Hotmail BETA (working title: Kahuna):
The beta is still largely private, mostly Microsoft employees, and in my humble opinion if it's going to compete with Gmail it still has a long way to go. I will say this, it is very stable and for additional email to backup a primary email it could be a good choice.
Yahoo Launching Podcast Search Engine Today
According to CNET, Yahoo, today intend to launch a new BETA podcast search engine:
Yahoo Podcasting is intended to allow people to easily search podcasts through keyword, categories or tagging, which is user-generated topic coding. The beta site also will highlight podcasts of note, those that are particularly popular and user recommendations and ratings, said Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer.
Google say it'll take 300 years to index world's info
At a annual press conference in Phoenix, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt predicts it will take 300 years to accomplish the companies mission statement of organizing the world's information:
"We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission [to organize the world's information] will take. "The answer is it's going to be a very long time."
Of the approximately 5 million terabytes of information out in the world, only about 170 terabytes have been indexed, he said earlier during his speech.
What Google defines as information, and how they factor in the constant increase of it into the equation, he didn't say.
AdSense Placement Heat-map for Forums
Sandra, of the official Google Adsense blog has published some optimization tips for forums' serving AdSense, most notably a AdSense Placement map (pictured right) indicating the best place to position AdSense for highest earnings (red being highest, yellow lowest).
A few people, including Nick W at threadwatch question the map's accuracy:
Left hand column is best? It rather looks like they just guessed that map hehe.. best place is the left column? Not only does that not fit my experience, on a tech savvy site and on a very NON tech savvy site, but it goes against all common sense!