IBM is upgrading
its WebSphere Commerce Suite in an effort
to better index web sites in the search engines. New to WebSphere
Commerce v. 6.0 is the ability to create static URL pages.
This lets spider technology used by search engine sites, such
as Google and Yahoo, query the URL, grab the keywords, and
push the page back to the search engine so it shows up in
the search results. Web-site performance--speed and accuracy--is
only half the battle. The other is getting the consumer to
the site.
Most consumers start the buying process searching on a word
or phrase. The problem is that spider technology used by search
engines can't query and find search keywords on every Web
site because most Web pages are dynamically generated, says
Craig Stevenson IBM's worldwide WebSphere E-commerce manager.
Source: Information Week
I will do an article on CMS systems and how search engine
friendly they all are soon. PLUG (My company SEO also has
its own custom built optimised CMS product available)
Google Research Centre
Opens in Tokyo A new Google Research Centre
has just opened in Tokyo according to Computer
Weekly story.
If you're wondering:
1) What type of R&D research the centre will focus on?
2) How many people Google plans to hire in Tokyo?
The answer is the company doesn't know (or isn't saying).
"The centre's role in Google's global R&D network
is yet to be defined and will be shaped by the people who
are hired to work there, said Howard Gobioff, the centre's
engineering director and principal engineer...Google does
not have a set number of engineers it is looking to hire for
the Tokyo centre and this will depend largely on the quality
of people who apply, Gobioff "
MSN Enters Blogging Fray
with "Spaces" ClickZ, December
2, 2004
Microsoft's MSN has introduced a beta version of its new blogging
tool, MSN Spaces, which
it expects will eventually be supported by advertising. It's
available in 14 languages and 26 markets worldwide. The tool
competes directly with Google's Blogger and AOL's Journals,
and less closely with Yahoo!'s GeoCities and Yahoo! Photos
offerings. The Redmond software giant also declared its intentions
to compete with Yahoo! in the RSS aggregation space, saying
MSN's feed aggregator was coming soon. Yahoo!'s RSS aggregator
launched in September. - Read
the whole story...
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