Google Wiki Pedia: June 2011

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Google Webmaster tools definition

A powerful tool that Google provides for free to help make your site more Google-friendly. Google Webmaster Tools allows site owners and webmasters to see how Google indexes your content and allows site owners to diagnose potential problems that Google may be having when trying to access your site. Google Webmaster Tools requires the upload of an XML sitemap which helps Google crawlers index your site content. Webmaster Tools provides information on search queries, internal and external linking inventories, subscriber stats, index stats and more.

Google Webmaster tools are a set of tools provided free of charge by Google to website owners. Webmaster tools are designed to help website owners and managers;

- Ensure Google can index all of a website's pages
- Drive traffic to the website
- Build a Google-friendly site
- Remove website pages from search results

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Google Dictionary Definitions

Want a definition for your search terms? It’s just a click away.

Google looks for dictionary definitions for your search terms. If it finds any definitions, it shows those words as underlined links or includes a definition link in the statistics bar section of the results page (located below the search box showing your query). Google is able to find definitions for acronyms, colloquialisms, and slang, as well as words that you would expect to find in a dictionary.

Click on the underlined terms or the definition link in the statistics bar to link to their dictionary definition, which also may include information on pronunciation, part of speech, etymology, and usage.

For example, learn what co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric Schmidt mean when they say they “run Google as a triumvirate” by clicking on the link triumvirate to look up “triumvirate” on dictionary.reference.com.

Phrases with idiomatic meanings that aren’t necessarily implied by the definitions of the individual words will be linked to their dictionary definitions, e.g., “happy hour,” “put off,” “greasy spoon,” and “raise the roof.”

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Google Desktop Search computer definition

A desktop search application from Google that runs under Windows or Mac. It searches a user's computer for keywords in Office documents, Outlook messages, AOL chats and Web pages. It also provides a viewer for news and photos as well as mini applications called "gadgets," similar to the Gadgets that were introduced with Windows Vista (see gadget). See Google and desktop search.

Mac. It searches a user's computer for keywords in Office documents, Outlook messages, AOL chats and Web pages. It also provides a viewer for news and photos as well as mini as mini applications called "gadgets," similar to the Gadgets that were introduced with Win.

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Google faces damages claim from French rival 1PlusV

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French search engine said it had sued Google Inc for 295 million euros ($418 million), alleging the U.S. company used its dominance to thwart rivals.

1plusV is one of four companies, including Microsoft Corp, that have accused Google of abusing its dominant position by giving preference to its own services in search results at the expense of rival sites. The allegations have triggered an investigation by the European Commission.

Last week the Federal Trade Commission also opened a formal probe into Google's market practices, raising the specter of a protracted regulatory battle on both sides of the Atlantic for Google -- similar to Microsoft's earlier fights with the authorities.

1plusV, which runs the Ejustice.fr legal website and search engine, said Google prevented it from developing specialized "vertical" search engines and crippled its ability to generate business and advertising. The claim is for lost and future profits, it added.

The company filed the claim with the Paris Commercial Court on Tuesday.

"Between 2007 and 2010, no less than 30 vertical search engines created by 1plusV were blacklisted, some of which showed significant business potential," it said.

Google declined to comment in detail about the complaint, which it said it had just received.

"We always try to do what's best for our users," spokesman Al Verney said. "It's the key principle that drives our company, and we look forward to explaining this."

The damages claim could be just the first of a series, said Thomas Vinje, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance who led a coalition that won EU fines against Microsoft.

"I would not be surprised if it encourages others to do the same," he said. "In general, it is becoming easier to obtain damages in competition cases across Europe than in the past."

British price comparison site Foundem, one of the complainants against Google, was not immediately available. Microsoft, which also owns the fourth complainant, German price comparison site Ciao, declined to comment.

1plusV accused Google of suffocating rivals through its policy of tying its Adsense advertising service to its own search engine.

"If that company were to win, it will set a very negative precedent for Google," said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis. "If it becomes a trend where it's not just government penalties but lost profits from competitors, that adds up quick."

Google's Adsense allows advertisers to buy keywords that, when typed in as a search query, produce a commercial link alongside the search results. Thus rival search engines wanting to access vital clients and revenue were forced to adopt Google technology.

In the Microsoft case, the European Union executive, with the power to fine companies up to 10 percent of their global turnover for breaching EU rules, has hit the company with fines totaling more than 1 billion euros.

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Meaning of Parameters in a Google Query

A typical Google search URL from Firefox might look like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=tools&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en-US&client=firefox-a

Although this is a very simple search, Google adds a lot of parameters (marked with bold) to identify the source of the query, the language of the interface and the encodings. You'll obtain the same results if you type:
http://www.google.com/search?q=tools

Let's see some of the most common parameters in a Google query:

Languages

ie = encoding of the input (default: utf-8)
oe = encoding of the output, the results (default: utf-8)
hl = language of the interface (default:en, you can try xx-bork or xx-hacker)
lr= language of results (default:en)

Source

sourceid = type of the source (ie7, opera, navclient, navclient-ff - navclient is used for Google software like the toolbar)
client = similar to sourceid (safari, firefox-a)
rls = version of the client, the language (example: rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-35,GGLD:en for Google Desktop)

Results

q, as_q= query, what you type in the search box
start=number of the first result from the page (starts from 0)
num=number of results in a page
filter= 0 or 1 (hide duplicate results)

Advanced search

as_epq=exact phrase (instead of typing quotes in the query, you can use this parameter)
as_filetype= file format (example:as_filetype=pdf)
as_ft=include / exclude a file format defined with as_filetype (values: i, e)
as_qdr=date of the results (values: m3, m6, y - last 3 or 6 months, a year)
as_nlo= find numbers greater than
as_nhi= find numbers lower than (example: as_nlo=7&as_nhi=9 to search integers from 7 to 9 - alternatively, you could type 7..9 in the query)
as_occt=where can appear the words in the page (some values: any, body, url, title)
as_sitesearch= restrict to a site (example: as_sitesearch=cnn.com)
as_dt=include / exclude a domain (values: i, e)
as_rights= type of the license (for Creative Commons licenses)
safe= safe search (values: active, off)

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