Ever wanted to follow a website’s feed but it didn’t offer any? Google has now integrated a new feature into Google Reader that allows users to receive alerts whenever any new feed for a domain or a specific web page becomes available.
Why Is That Important?
If the websites that you follow contains integrated feed services then this isn’t something you should consider. However, if there’s one of two pages you like to follow but wished you could just get their feed instead, wish no more.
Remember, this option is only available for Google Reader, so if you’re not using GR you might consider switching. Google lets you add web pages simply and easily, track their feed, and alert whenever new feed has arrived.
On the other hand, if you do not want to publish your feed from your pages, simply opt out and Google will not update viewer’s feeds when you publish new content. In order to opt out you must do 1 of the 2 things:
- Add a new meta tag to each page that you don’t want Google to read: <meta name=”googlebot” content=”noarchive”>
- Use robots.txt to block Google crawler alltogether
Google’s decision to end self-censorship of its Chinese search engine in China has spurred out trouble with the Chinese regulators. According to Google’s Jan 12 post, Google may end up closing the Chinese offices, losing $600 million yearly revenues.
The Chinese government laws and regulations prohibit non censorship when it comes to search engines. Google decided not to comply with the Chinese laws. Chinese primary search engine, Baidu, is still China’s leading search engine as of today. Google’s leave from China will not hurt the Chinese in any way.
Ever since Microsoft’s initial Bing release, the search engine is becoming more popular every day. More users are searching Bing.com for answers.
As of December 2008, Bing’s shares went up 2.4% by December 2009, as well as search growth increased by almost 50% while Google’s search growth increased by 20%.
Although Bing is definitely a threat to Google, as of now, Google still remains the world’s top search engine. As Bing’s search growth grows, Yahoo search growth, on the other hand, is steadily declining, bringing concern to all Yahoo investors.
