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Google has just introduced its new translation service, namely Google Translation Center, on its Web Blogoscope. This translation service is not yet online, Google Translate rest for the time being the only one available. The novelty of Google Translation Center lies mainly in the ability to download directly on the site documents to translate, choose the language, but also the translator in a list which will be proposed in the interface of the tool. Anyone can offer its services as a translator, free or paid service. Google is considering translating documents in over 40 languages.

Google Translation Center will also be equipped with a search system to avoid bringing several times the same document.

How to choose a domain name for optimum visibility? Should we opt for a name short and easy to remember by Internet or a name composed including dashes and two to three keywords denoting the theme of the site?

Two schools of thought clash on the canvas, then choose that? I personally look for the first solution, ie a name easy to remember by Internet users, not too long and could easily benefit from word of mouth once the site begins to boot. We can reason by analogy with the development of a brand marketing. In addition to a site of good reputation, the domain name is often associated with its main brand… that there will be interest to file!
If the site is intended to be translated into several languages and target an international audience, will select a tld (*). Com; against a French site for a choice of a domain. Com is entirely appropriate and ready for a good positioning in Google France. Where the selected name is no longer available with these extensions, you can always fall back to the net, org, info, or yet been following its objectives, but for the common Internet commerce and now are en extensions not default and therefore the easiest to remember.
Include keywords in the domain name?

Tests show that search engines take into account the presence of keywords in the URL, but also that the weight given by the ranking algorithm Google is probably low or very low. The profit on the placement is in fact primarily indirect, as many back links (*) including natural links will use the domain name or URL of the home page as anchor link.
If we can make simple, to include a key word is obviously any benefit, but to create a domain name style word1-word2-mot3.com there is only one step that I do not paste. Dashes are a frequent source of error when the Internet will come to remember the name of the site in its browser, against the injury is low for a site that appears correctly address of the site will be easily revealed by a search engine (more than 10% of research of this type on Google). If you prefer still use keywords, the dash is a separator valid, but a maximum of two key words reflecting the main activity seems to be the limit not to exceed, not to give the site a connotation amateur or worse apprentice spammer! In the case of a corporate site, we think analyzing the impact, often negative, this choice on the communication strategy and brand, and the development of the digital identity of the Company.

Note also for those who prefer to use a short name, the possibility of defining www.mydomain.com / motclef.php as the URL of the page (by htaccess) instead index.html or programmed index.php default

It’s official and it’s not a joke from 1 April, the French Team won the international contest SEO seocontest2008. Organized by the British Ukwebmasterworld.com wholesale forum, the competition has mobilized hundreds of specialists SEO for several weeks.

Many of them have participated through a national team. This was the case of “Web Portal” whose page seocontest2008 participated in the effort of the French Team consitutée members of the forum SEO Sphere.

Bravo to the French for this victory, congratulations to the organizers for the initiative. See you next year! The official website of the French team? You will find it here Uk webmaster world. Sphere.

As expected, Google has improved its video search service which now covers more sources and provides users to load and record their videos on Google Video via this form. Tested by our care, service Google is unfortunately still very small. Indeed, most video proposed can not be viewed and Google generally offers some screenshots as compensation. On too few videos, the service allows you to view some excerpts directly from Google.

Another new feature, Google now offers its own video player based on the excellent VLC. Moved to this page, Google VideoLAN integrates directly to the Internet browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox).

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Google continues to invest for free. If the firm uses quite heavily tools under license free, it acts on behalf of the community through various projects. The latest funding consists of up to 300 000 dollars for the Open Source Lab at the University of Oregon.
Google Linux Le giant Google confirmed its interest in the OSS by funding the Open Source Lab at the University of Oregon. The donation is significant since it is still at 300 000 dollars which were offered by the firm of Mountain View. In any laboratory has been funded to the tune of $ 750 000 by Google. This money will be used by the laboratory to grow and bear several free projects.

The OSL has worked on player of the OLPC, the monitoring tool RAIV, the manager of mirrors web Bouncer, the publication system Drupal, etc. … The OSL also hosts all or part of projects including Debian, Gnome, KDE, Mozillaline, KernelTrap … the complete list is available on the official site. The OSL has other patrons viewed: Sun, Mozilla, Intel, IBM, Real and others.

The gift from Google will be taken into account in a more general project, a foundation for the University of Oregon, which aims to collect 625 million dollars. This money is supposed to strengthen the region’s economy but also open new opportunities for students and help research. 425 million have already been collected.

Remember that Google is generally committed to the Open Source. Among its actions more visible, we can talk about hosting free projects, Google Summer of Code, which pays each summer more students working on projects free: 1125 this year to about 5 million dollars spent or the commitment of the firm in the Open Invention Network since last year. The latter is a fund intellectual property of a particular kind enough: several large companies, including IBM, Red Hat, Sony and Philips have decided to join forces to buy patents and redistribute software for GNU / Linux. Basically, any person or company wishing to use one of the patents owned by the fund may do so free, with a commitment not to sue the free projects.

Three former Google launch their search engine: Cuil - www.cuil.com
With Cuil, leadership World Google may be worried? Hard to say but for the first time the threat comes from within. Decrypting the benefits of this new engine. Let us your comments on www.proconcept-design.com

Presented as the “Google Killer”, the search engine Cuil ( “knowledge, in Gaelic, pronounced” Cool “) has been online since Sunday, July 27. It was created by the eponymous start-up founded by Anna Paterson and Russell Power, two former Google, and Tom Costello, a former IBM.

In the afternoon, he was already 29 million links, still very far, youth forces, 153 million proposed by Google. According to them, Cuil now has the largest index with 120 billion Web pages, against 40 billion for Google. It is thus intended to provide more complete results and more relevant than its competitor. In practice, this is still far from the case. On Monday at noon, by typing “Canon” “Panasonic” or “iphone 3G”, the engine did not find any results

Even if it presents itself as the “largest search engine Web, Cuil is still far from being as effective as the industry leader. Without forgetting that it does not offer news aggregation, or mapping service, images or tools audience measurement sites. If there is competition, it is therefore for the moment on the web search function pure. And on this ground, Cuil far east to match the market leader.

According to its authors, however, the engine must evolve. Eventually, his algorithm will prove more relevant than systems Pagerank and TrustRank integrated into Google.

As things stand, Cuil offers a presentation of results rather interesting, with large extracts from the pages referenced and images. A éditorialisation results which show a bit like the first pages of a magazine. A very visual presentation, which contrasts with the long list of links on Google. In addition, its sponsors ensure that the engine does not navigation data, and therefore better respect the privacy that the giant Mountain View.

Today only available in English, Cuil should be open to other languages, including French, by the end of the year.

However, the real question in all this is: What has been happening for this startup receive as much attention on the day of its launch? Cuil is everywhere since yesterday and never-ending supply of acid comments of all those who try. Results debatable at best or completely offline site … due to “overweight” it seems. And it wants to compete with google?

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