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But scroll down the chat is in English.
I didn't know google was still using meta keywords. I knew that they did (its in the papers), but thought I read they had dropped it.
I have been doing ok without them. Maybe i'll add them in. Doesn't inktomi still use meta keywords?
You can sometimes find this with clueless FRAMESET pages with no NOFRAMES content. It would be very hard to check now, as you can't be sure that you've checked all inbound links for those words (and neither you nor I are likely to have such a page).
Calum
Hihi.
>In French
It only seems right. The general public comes here expecting english and end up reading in SEO.
A.Woumblat : What are the reasons for a url to disappear from the Google database ?
Most of the time, it's because we only have a certain amount of space to store pages in our index. I wish that we could catch every page on the web for every index, but sometimes we have to choose.
That certainly would explain the new found fixiation on duplicate content. In the past, I've never seen dup content work for gaining any kind of extra advantage. Google always just ranked the site with the most links and ignored the others.
Flushing all the sites connected to dup content is a pretty good way to help control the size of the database. It should also help slow down the return of the problem, since we are all now being much more careful when it comes to allowing Googlebot to see and crawl potential duplicate content. :)
Sorry for jumping in, but that's a good occasion to brush up on my french. I'm sure Macguru will correct me if I got anything wrong... ;)
There's no need to introduce Google anymore. This search engine (which has its name derived from the term "Googol", meaning 10^100) has been created in 1998 by two students from Stanford (like Yahoo!), Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It has grown from a university research project. In June 1999, the two founders raised US$ 25M of venture capital and really launched the company, which is today based in Mountain View, California. It is one of the big winners of the year 2001 and plays a major role in the area of searching for information in the world of the web.Matt Cutts, software engineer, and Stephanie Kerebel, internationalization specialist with Google, have answered our questions on tuesday, feb. 26th 2002.
Matt Cutts has joined Google as "software engineer" in jan. 2000. Before that, he worked on his PhD in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has pulished articles on the "office of the future" as well as on object recognition in compressed images. Matt has written the "Safe Search" software, the family filter used by Google. He also works fo the US DOD, and has studied projects for video game companies. For learning more about his career: www.cs.unc.edu/~cutts/
Stehpanie Kerebel, internationalization specialist with Google, is responsible for the general supervision of the areas of translation and international support. She also does sales and business presentations related to publicity and promotion for maintaining the image of the "Google" brand outside the US.
The chat with Matt Cutts and Stephanie Kerebel took part (in english, for once) tuesday feb. 26th 2002, at 6pm, in partnership with Canalchat.
Here a summary of the online conversation:
nanbowles : When I search on google.fr am I taping into the same database as my collegue in the Us taping the same search term into google.com?We store all the data in one master index. Then we build a restrict of French language pages and pages in France. Note that we don't just consider .fr pages. Instead, we also look for .com pages which are based in France. That's one reason why our search on google.fr can cover more pages.
How would google know if there is a .com page based in France? Is Canadian French different enough that a search algorithm could figure out it is not "France French" and therefore deduce it is in France and not Quebec? What if the site is in English, but based in France?
Thanks Bird.
Should answer
Olivier : When will you have headquarters in Paris ? I heard that the French manager is already known ? Is it true ?
We're just a software engineer and internationalization experts. We don't know everything. I do know that France is a very high priority for Google. And I think that France is slated to be the next office that we open up. I don't think that we can commit to a firm date, but I would definitely say within the next few months. France is an important market, and we can't wait to open an office there !
Also "GoogleGuy" we want new pictures !!! [google.com]
