Google has announced a eBook reader that integrates with Google books and the Google Bookstore. It is the iriver Story HD. The HD part refers to its screen resolution of 1024 by 768. The Kindle, in comparison, is 800 by…
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British Library continues mission "to give everybody access to as much of the world’s information as possible" by way of Google Books agreement
10
Jul
The British Library and Google have agreed that 250,000 out-of-copyright texts will be digitized at Google’s expense and made available at no charge on both the Library and Google Books websites. The scope is just a small fraction of the…
Launch of Schema.org: Structured Data Markup Using Microdata for Web Search Engines
17
Jun
Schema.org, a joint initiative of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines. From the Schema.org front page: Search…
Google Enhances Desktop Search
14
Jun
Google announced several enhancements to search today at an Inside Search event held in San Francisco. These are summarized at Google’s Inside Search Blog post published earlier this morning. Voice search will now be available from the desktop. There will…
What Next for Google Books?
01
Jun
From the announcement: Now that the court has rejected the Google Books settlement, what will happen next? This conversation traces the history of Google’s audacious plan to scan the world’s books and the controversial settlement in the lawsuit filed against…
MY NEW PLATFORM
31
May
My web hosts for this site offered me the chance to migrate to a new platform, from Movable Type to WordPress. I said yes, go ahead. The result is what you see now, a big improvement, I think. The layout and design is so much more versatile. It explains why I have been absent for a while. Another change, which I welcome, is that I now invite my readers to make comments, and interact with me.
There has been a problem which is to do with what is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I don’t want to lose the positions in Google, for example, which have been in prominent places for a long time now. But one also needs to avoid any “404s” showing up, in other words a dead link. This has meant the arduous task of tagging old entries with the “301″ tag, which means that the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is redirected to a different permanent address on a different server.
As well, there has been a problem getting the old internal and external links to work, especially the pictures. Pictures and videos are all important these days. Readers/subscribers have become more sophisticated, and expect all the bells and whistles to be available. So we’re working on it.
Bear with me. I’m no expert, and this is all a learning experience for me too. But I want to get my story out in the best way possible.
The next stop will be an E-Book. Stay tuned.
Google’s New Official Search Blog
31
May
From the “Hello World” post of Google’s Inside Search: “Here you’ll find regular updates on our algorithms and features, as well as stories from the people who work to improve Google every day.” [JH]
