Whenever you surf the Internet, you may come across a lot of people’s views and comments. This is also not hard to find people making wrong comments or writing wrong things aboutothers. The latter always want to remove these crazy pages from the Internet, as you can’t stop the former from doing so. Google’s Matt Cutts came up with the solution for all those people who want to remove these kind of stuff or pages from the Internet. He says:

“Unfortunately there’s not much I can do. The page you pointed out is not spam, and pretty much the only removals (at least in the U.S., which is what I know about) that we do for legal reasons are if a court orders us.

There are speculations that Microsoft is testing Kumo.com among its staff members for feedback. Kumo is a new test program of Microsoft.

According to Kip Kniskern of Liveside.net, Kumo is due for some extremely vital changes, however, it is not confirmed what are those changes!

Towards the end of last year, Liveside.net gave a deeper insight on Kumo being the successor of Microsoft’s Live Search.

Here comes the news that the French town, “Eu” is planning to change its name, reason being it wants to have higher rankings in Google! Amazing! The County of Eu was created in 996 by Duke Richard I of Normandy. No doubt, the town holds hundred years of civilization.

According to the Mayor of Eu, Mrs Gaouyer, “As far as the Internet is concerned, we have to bring ourselves up to date.” Her favored option is “Ville d’Eu (Town of Eu)” Some other possibilities include Eu-le-Château and Eu-en-Normandie.

Search Engine Journal reports about a new SEO tool, through a post. The name of the tool is LinkVooDoo, which helps in link buying or link exchange campaigns.

Backlink checker and website evaluator, LinkVooDoo is a free tool. It has the ability to measure the quality of a website, and at the same time it tells the users how valuable is the link from a particular website.

The first focus area is “link diagnostics”. Let’s see how it works:

Many webmasters at WebmasterWorld are talking about Yahoo Search update. According to them, Yahoo Search is updating its index and algorithm. However, officially it has not been confirmed yet! Below are some of the important points from the WebmasterWorld thread:

1. Link counts have seen some amount of drop.
2. Canonical issues are also discussed.
3. One person is reporting “I am seeing two different titles and descriptions for singular vs. plural of my main keyword. It’s the same URL, so kind of odd.”

Even though Yahoo! has not announced the update officially, but the Yahoo Search Japan blog announced it. Here is the translation

Towards the end of 2008, Google was found saying that they were trying to fix the blogroll issue and at some point they also said that the issue had been fixed. But, despite this, it seemed that Google continued to receive complaints over Google Blog Search’s Matching skills.

Recently, Googler, Jeremy Hylton said that Google is all set to release a “user visible experiments” next week, to target Google Blog Search’s issue with “blogroll detectors” and the link queries in a better way! Hylton said in his post at Google Groups thread,

After Zimra founder Satish Dharmaraj marking his exit from Yahoo!, another executive to resign from the search engine is Marco Boerries. The top mobile executive has already announced his resignation

Boerries wrote in an email,“With a very heavy heart I have to tell you, that I will be leaving Yahoo!.” He cited personal reasons for the departure. Boerries spent four years as Yahoo!’s top mobile executive. He was named the 16th most powerful person in the wireless industry by FierceWireless in the year 2008.

Matt Cutts of Google has presented a series of slides via his own blog, where he explained about Canonical Link Element.

“One exciting new development even since we made the video is that Ask announced that they will support the canonical tag This means that pretty much all the major search engines will support this as an open standard. That should make life easier for site owners, developers, and webmasters”- Matt Cutts

Jon Henshaw of Raven SEO Tools has come up with a number of tips to help you create dofollow links on social bookmarking mega platform Delicious.com.

Here are the tips:

1. Try to be the first person to bookmark the link. That way you’ll be able to control the anchor text that’s used in the link.
2. After you bookmark the link, have at least one other Delicious user bookmark it. Have that account use similar tags, but don’t completely copy each other. Also, it’s probably wise to mix up accounts that bookmark the same links, and you may want to consider having the other account use a proxy server or different IP.
3. Although step two is all you need to do, it may be helpful to actually build a few links to the “Everyone’s Bookmarks for” page, just to make sure it gets spidered, referenced and rated by search engines.

According to the report of Hitwise Data (PDF FILE), a majority (almost 50 percent) search queries are at least three words long, and more than a third are four words long or even longer than that.

Based on the report, it can be said that today, most Internet users are extending their search queries in different search engines. Have a look at the following table, which will give you a deeper insight regarding the same:

In the table, it is shown that 1- and 2- word queries are becoming less common, and 4, 5, up to 8 words queries are becoming more common.