A search engine gets the links of the website from the sitemap. So every search engine expects some sort of sitemaps in websites.People may be aware of two commonly used sitemaps (XML sitemap and HTML sitemap) but our idea is to have four site maps.

1. XML Sitemap

2.HTML Sitemap

3. Text Site map (different approach which works!)

4. Feeds (An indirect XML site map)

4 Important Site maps

It is also important you follow some conventions with sitemaps.
1. Try to have sitemap pages with 100 links only, more than 100 link can be considered as spam
2. Check there is no 404 error pages
3. Give correct priority in xml sitemap. If you give same or high priority to all links. Google will skip that tags and it will consider its own priority.

What is google wave?
What is Real time typing?

Google wave is a new service introduced by google to share the news or chat with friends and lots more. Google wave is available by invitation only. Luckily we got invitation

Google wave is now in preview edition i.e before beta. After some years Google wave may become a good social networking site. Social networking sites are more important than other sites (Twitter,Facebook, Linked In).

Two days before, another security hole in twitter came out. “How to read protected tweets” – It was the security hole and people were using google to read the protected tweets. Funny! How to read the protected tweets of a particular user. Just follow this trict

1. Go to google.com

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AJAX to go open source

Ever wish the Web was as responsive as your favorite desktop applications? If it was, you’d see a lot fewer hourglasses and enjoy drag and drop convenience and instantaneous updating. All it takes is some AJAX.

Not the household cleanser, obviously. AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. IBM and other IT companies and Internet businesses just formed the first open source community devoted to promoting AJAX.

The other founding members of the AJAX open source community include BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend and Zimbra. To ensure that the technologies are easily accessible and predicated on open standards, Zimbra, the Dojo Foundation and IBM are planning on donating software tools and technology to Apache, Mozilla and Eclipse, each respected stewards of open source software.

What is AJAX?

AJAX isn’t a new technology. It’s a way to develop interactive Web applications using established technologies that offer significant advantages when used together. Traditionally, most Web applications work by users triggering HTTP commands sent to the Web server. The problem is the traditional approach makes users wait while the Web server executes the requests.

AJAX adds a layer to the process — but one that actually helps. It provides the interface that users see and while it communicates independently with the server. By allowing users to interact with the software independent of communication with the server, users are spared the wait that’s inherent in the traditional approach. Instead of forcing the browser to continually refresh to send and receive information or images, AJAX makes them always available. This enables navigation and response times to be as quick as those of programs installed directly on PCs. For example, it lets Web users:

Scroll through a virtual map or photographs without refreshing their browser screens. It can also enable calendars to pop up when users place their mouse over a date in an e-mail,

Get real-time assurance that information typed into a Web order form is valid. This can eliminate the delays and frustration of filling out an online form that occurs when the server flags mistakes one at a time.

Drag and drop objects similar to the way they can be moved on a computer desktop.

Use a rich set of buttons, icons, scroll bars and menus that ease and speed navigation and information retrieval.

Who plays in this space?

Not surprisingly, Microsoft is pushing its own proprietary version of AJAX. Google has also made a significant investment in AJAX. Gmail and the beta versions of Google Groups and Google Maps are among its AJAX apps. The Flickr digital photo sharing Web site uses it, as does Amazon’s A9.com search engine. While statistics on AJAX use are hard to come by, O’Reilly Media reports that the sale of technical books pertaining to AJAX has soared 68 percent in 2005.

The “secret sauce” is open source

One dozen prominent IT vendors and Internet-based businesses support the creation of an open source community to promote the use of AJAX technologies. Unlike existing proprietary efforts, open source AJAX would be universally compatible with any Web-enabled device, application, desktop or operating system. By making it freely available, it can be incorporated into new and existing open source software programs with as few licensing restrictions as possible.

Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

Microsoft announced this on July 29th 2009 in Press Pass column. Earlier the yahoo deal was called off. But people said “Microsoft Badly Needs Yahoo” to compete with google. Then microsoft came up with bing, many internet users feel that bing is best when compared to older microsoft search such as live and msn. Google has lost certain market share when bing was introduced, and what if microsoft powers yahoo search ? There will be further decrease in Google’ Market Share. Microsoft and Yahoo has launched a site towards this, http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/ yes now i agree microsoft is in competition with google.