As a translator for Google, Martin was able to see some upcoming features for Google services. He found some hints today that Google is working to add multi-user conference feature to Google Chat/Talk, and will integrate with AIM.

Phrase in English: NAME has joined
Translation Help: System messages when user join or left a muc conversation
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Phrase in English: NAME will be removed from your AIM buddy list.

From the context, I can guess that MUC stands fro Multi-user conversation… (nay, I am not that smart, it’s Philipp. hehe)

[via Google Blogoscoped]

Google has the search operators link, site, inurl, intitle, and a couple more. But here’s some I want to see which are still missing:

• alllinks:example.com - shows all (absolutely all) links pointing to a certain domain, ordered by the PageRank of the referring site

• invalid:example.com - shows pages of a certain domain not validating per W3C guidelines

• invalidstrict:example.com - a validator as above, but it additionally shows everything that’s not conforming to the newest W3C recommendations

• images:example.com - I know I can click on Google Image search and then use the site operator, but why not create a shortcut?

• inlink:foo - returns only pages that use “foo” as the link text

• inheader:foo - returns only pages that use “foo” in some headline (h1, h2 and so on)

• inalt:foo - returns only pages including images with a certain alt-text

• hot:example.com - shows pages of a domain which gained the most backlinks from other sites during the last 7 days

• new:example.com - shows the pages which recently changed on a specific site

• whois:example.com - returns domain information on Example.com

• pagerank:example.com - orders all pages of a certain domain by PageRank (highest PR first), and displays the green bar icon next to titles in the SERPs

• adult:example.com - returns only pages (of a specific site) which didn’t pass Google’s SafeSearch filter

• map: - shows the map of the address

• # Privacy - If you append the phrase “#privacy” at the end of a query on any search engine or site search, your query should not be tracked by IP or cookie, and should not be made public in keyword tools. poundprivacy.org

• passwords:example.com – shows password files

• inject:example.com – shows SQL and other code injections, including XSS

• SSN:example.com – shows personal information

• IP:example.com – shows supposedly protected Intellectual Property

• sad:example.com – shows clearly outdated web applications

• bak:example.com – shows any backup files

• adm:example.com – shows unpassworded administrator/root pages

• censored:text – shows pages containing your search text which are censored in Google.cn

• censored:all – Returns the complete list of pages censored in Google.cn, ranked by popularity.

• ##find:example.com - list page number and entry number of the domain in that google search.

… do you have other suggestions?

How to scrap in Hindi in Orkut., its pretty simple, as simple as blogging in Hindi… To Scrap in Hindi just log on to www.quillpad.com type whatever you want in english, i mean same Hindi sentence..like ” kya kar rahe hain aap?”..then copy it and paste it in the Scrap Book. Scrappin in Hindi in orkut is becoming quite popular, same thing can be followed for Tamil, malayalam also…

Audio Scrap is aimed at those who cant shout enough with usual text scraps!Audio Scrap lets you have some real good vocal action through scraps!

What Audio Scrap CANT DO..

* Audio scrap is not a sound recorder.You should record you messages through Odeo.com[its simple and totally free! DO EVERYTHING HERE ]
* Audio scrap wont work with Internet Explorer. You must have Firefox[Firefox lets you enjoy virus free Internet browsing unlike Internet Explorer].

QUICK START GUIDE [uh! really?]
Once you record and save your audio at odeo.com,look for your mp3 url [hei! its there! open your eyes dude!]. It looks something like this :

http://media.odeo.com//files/2/5/1234123.mp3

To add this mp3 to a scrapbook, just remove the http:// part from the mp3 url and replace yourMP3url in the following :

http://flt.50webs.com/AudioScrap.swf?mp3URL=yourMP3url

Where yourMP3url will be media.odeo.com//files/2/5/1234123.mp3 [note that there is no http:// ]

An example would be :

http://flt.50webs.com/AudioScrap.swf?mp3URL=media.odeo.com//files/2/5/1234123.mp3

[Seems like this is the worst beta ever released on this planet!! Something with Orkut/Firefox result in a sudden “shift of swf” when you click on it.This needs to be fixed!]

Posted by audioscrap

What is the best way to contact someone at Google?

Above question looks like very simple, but in reality, it is not. Getting in touch with someone at Google to help you with a problem you might have on your site, is typically not easy for the average webmaster. So here are some tips:-

Best Way To Contact Google:

1. Go to Google Webmaster Help at Google Groups and call out Adam Lasnik’s name (kidding on Adam’s name, but Googlers are always responding and reading these posts, title your posts effectively, so the proper Googler can read it)
2. Sign up at Webmaster Central and use the forms there to contact Google (they will trust you more)
3. Come to a search conference and speak to a search rep, often it is better to talk to a less well known search rep, they are more likely to be frank with you and they may have less on their plate
4. Post a question at WebmasterWorld or Search Engine Watch Forums or sometimes DigitalPoint Forums
5. Become friends with someone who is already in contact with search reps
6. Try emailing Google (but that may get you no where)
7. Have Google send you aspirin with a great blog post
8. Get slashdotted and have Matt Cutts react
9. Sue Google over anti-trust allegations and ask for their secret sauce like Kinderstart has done in the past
10. Pray to the Google Pray tag

I think they are in order of what might work best. Good luck in your pursuit to contact Google!

If anyone know any other way please post it here.

A late Friday post at the Google Webmaster Central blog named Building link-based popularity sparked a ton of discussion over the weekend at WebmasterWorld.

The WebmasterWorld was named “It’s Official: Google Discounting Reciprocal Link Exchanges” by martinibuster to spark some top notch discussion. Based on the last paragraph of the Google post, martinibuster writes;

Within a recent Google Blog post about bad linking practices, the author lumps reciprocal link exchange tactics alongside paid links. The author does not qualify the statement against recips by singling out non-relevant or aggressive exchanges. Neither does it make a distinction between relevant link exchange or free for all link exchange. The blog simply references the exchange of links.

After a few pages of debate, Adam Lasnik of Google came in to try to clear things up from the Google perspective. In post number 3191649 Adam said;

This is a lot of speculation about reciprocal linking in response to an official blog entry, when there’s not even one mention of “reciprocal” on the entire page ;-). Take a step back, look at the bigger picture, take a deep breath!

Honestly, Adam, I think the words “exchanged links” is pretty much the same as “reciprocal linking.” But that is here nor there.

Over time and with lots and lots of data (and very handy tools for crunching it :-), it becomes more clear to us at Google what is “natural” (or organic) on the Web and what is not. We aim to reward the former, discount the latter. Take that as a broader SEO strategy statement if you will… it’s not just about links, and it’s DEFINITELY not all about reciprocal linking.

As Adam says continuously, it is about the patterns Google sees in your site and niche around it. Google is a different beast, it used to be before Adam was hired.

But more recently, Google has tremendously refined its link-weighting algorithms. We have more people working on Google’s link-weighting for quality control and to correct issues we find. So nowadays, undermining the PageRank algorithm is likely to result in the loss of the ability of link-selling sites to pass on reputation via links to other sites.

That is what makes it harder to play with the Google SERPs. Google can now trust-less a particular link, assign less “weight” towards a link.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Posted by rustybrick

We often find few of our friends appear offline for months in our yahoo messenger though in reality they might be hiding their messenger status from us i.e. appear invisible!! Alex found a great way to see if someone is really offline in the yahoo messenger. Heres how Alex do it ………

The process of detecting invisible yahoo messenger users is pretty simple and can be used by anyone with little computer knowledge. Don’t need to download any softwares or any programs! just follow these simple steps:

• Sign in to your Yahoo messenger

Sign in to your Yahoo messenger. See who is online and who appears offline. In my case it appeared only 4 of my friends are online. Out of them 2 were signed into their respective mobile devices.

• Go to Yahoo
  

Open the all new yahoo homepage.

• Locate the widget
  

Just below the header in the right hand side of the home page locate this block.

• Sign in to your Yahoo account

Move your mouse over ‘Messenger’. Now sign in using your yahoo username and password.

• Check the status, see who is hiding

After you are redirected to the yahoo homepage, move your mouse over ‘Messenger’ to see how many of your friends are really online (including the ones signed in to his mobile device with status I’m on SMS) and how many are really offline. In my case I found 6 of my friends were online though my messenger showed 4 !! So its pretty simple to understand 2 were trying to hide from me i.e. they are in invisible mode!!

Also note that using this built-in feature you can check your inbox from the MAIL tab (note the tab that says 1 New), tune in to a radio station, check your local weather, find a local address or even check your horoscope! Isn’t that great?