ajb{log}: learn something new each day

Live.com Search updated their background with the cool image of Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium

You can see it over here.

First off, what is Baidu? Why does it make sense to submit all your websites there? Ok, simply put, Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. According to Compete, the Baidu has more than 1.5 million monthly visitors. And that’s the main reason why.

I can’t understand Chinese. How and where do I submit my site? Here’s how:

1) Go to this URL: http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html

2) You should see something like this:

Just enter your URL (web address) on the first input box.

3) Enter the code that you will see just right at the bottom (It’s Y2C2 in my case. That code changes randomly).

4) Click the submit button beside it and you’re done!

Easy huh?

Here’s the URL again http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html, bookmark it for future use.

Here’s the English translation if you really wanted to know.

We’ve finally completed our partnership with SimplyHired, Indeed, WowJobs and Kapehan for job aggregation and distribution. SimplyHired is also providing a job search engine for LinkedIn Canada and MySpace UK.

What does this mean to you as an employer?
Aside from our great visibility at search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Live), your job ads will have further exposure thru our job aggregators. This exponentially increases the visibility of your job openings to job seekers who are visiting social networks and other services.

How do I get my job there?
SimplyHired, Indeed and WowJobs only list jobs that have specific locations such as city and state/province. So next time you post a job, make sure you don’t forget to choose a city and state/province. This is however, not applicable for country-wide job postings.

New Employer Dashboard Features

• View your subscription details
• View and print your invoices
• Did your subscription expire? No problem. You can login and re-subscribe inside your dashboard under “Settings > Subscription”
• We have more updates on our blog…

Mployd is an honorable mention at the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards

We have received an honorable mention at the recent 2008 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards and we are fast becoming one of the largest job posting website on the Internet today and slowly taking market share away from some of the largest employment job sites.

Mployd Affiliate Network Launched

We are proud to announce the launch of our new affiliate program. This will allow website owners to make some extra cash promoting Mployd. So, if you want to monetize your existing traffic, sign up as an affiliate now!

More information here

Yes. This is my newest browser home page. Goosh (http://goosh.org).

This is a unix-shell-like interface for Google. If you are like me who miss the quick links at the upper left hand corner of google for reader and Gmail. Just type in “l gmail” for Gmail and “l reader” for Google Reader.

For more quick commands, use “h”.

I don’t think I’m going back to the google.com interface if goosh.org improves the speed. Recommended to all geeks!

Wtg!

–aj

We’ve updated Egghub recently, optimized some pages and it should be loading a bit faster.  We’ve also enhanced/optimized for search engines. More cool stuff on the way.

What is Egghub? Think of it as your aNobii or Shelfari for Discs.

Check it out!

–aj

It’s official and this one ends the long saga of Microsoft’s acquisition offer to Yahoo! where they rejected. It’s also all over the blogosphere here, here and here.

a) http://mp3gle.net
b) http://www.seekmp3.info
c) http://woonz.com
d) http://groupzz.com
e) http://ssmunch.com
f) http://skreemr.com

Ssmunch looks cool but skeemr is a lot cooler.

–aj

Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions video. Get the slides here.

–aj

RWW wrote a very interesting article today about Google’s plans into crawling through HTML forms.

Quoting an excerpt:

“For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML. Having chosen the values for each input, we generate and then try to crawl URLs that correspond to a possible query a user may have made,” explained Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy in a blog post. “If we ascertain that the web page resulting from our query is valid, interesting, and includes content not in our index, we may include it in our index much as we would include any other web page.”

Does this mean we now need to add additional access permission for the Googlebot to index our dynamic form results if we wanted to? What about forms with CAPTCHA? What If we didn’t want Googlebot to access our form results and forgot to deny it on our robots.txt file, will it be fast and easy to request removal from the Google.com SERPs?

I wildly assume that most webmasters already know that it takes time to request pages to be taken out of the Google’s SERPs. It sometimes takes days, even weeks.

There’s so much questions right now with this news that just came out. But I guess only time will tell what will really happen when it happen.

What’s your take?

–aj

Yahoo! AMP (Advertising Management Platform) coming in the 3rd quarter of 08. Will this be the “real” worthy Google Adwords competitor?

–aj