As all we know that,whenever a person searches something on the internet it sees a lot of pages for its corresponding search.The msot frustrating thing that any user found about these pages,that many of them contain the same content that means there exists a lot of duplicate content on the internet.But now Google,Microsoft and Yahoo decided to take measures on this,according to them support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result of that, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.According to Google,this problem arises due to the e-commerce companies that having multiple URLs that all point to the same page.Now to cope up with this problem Google came up with a simple way for web publishers to indicate when a URL is a duplicate, and if so, which is the principal, or "canonical," URL that search engines should be indexing.Now after this all search engines start modifying their search engine in this way.
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Google,Microsoft to clean up the web
As all we know that,whenever a person searches something on the internet it sees a lot of pages for its corresponding search.The msot frustrating thing that any user found about these pages,that many of them contain the same content that means there exists a lot of duplicate content on the internet.But now Google,Microsoft and Yahoo decided to take measures on this,according to them support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result of that, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.According to Google,this problem arises due to the e-commerce companies that having multiple URLs that all point to the same page.Now to cope up with this problem Google came up with a simple way for web publishers to indicate when a URL is a duplicate, and if so, which is the principal, or "canonical," URL that search engines should be indexing.Now after this all search engines start modifying their search engine in this way.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Microsoft is going to pay $ 100 mn
Now their is a hot news from the field of computers,Microsoft Corporation is going to pay $ 100 million to software maker Novell Inclusives as additional subscription fees because in the past few years the demand of open-source Linux software is increased to a great extent.The payment to be made by Nov 1 is in addition to a $240 million payment to Novell from Microsoft in 2006 as part of a broad set of business and technological agreements to make their products work together for corporate customers using both Linux and Windows servers.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, buys certificates from Novell and then sells subscriptions to Windows clients who want support in making their computer systems work well alongside Linux machines.The agreement between the companies expires Jan 1, 2012. Linux is the most popular variant of open-source software. Unlike proprietary software, open-source software lets developers share code and add functions, and users only pay for custom features, maintenance and technical support. Novell said it will also spend an undisclosed sum of money to provide new tools, support, training and resources for subscribers.On this agreement Novell said that it has already invoiced $156 million in revenue from the Microsoft certificates in the first 18 months since the November 2006 start of the five-year agreement.
The pact between Microsoft and Novell stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community because it included among other things a clause saying that neither company would sue customers of the other for patent violations.This clause was seen as an endorsement of Microsoft's claim that it holds patents to intellectual property behind some open-source software, a contention rebutted by Novell and others in the open-source community.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, buys certificates from Novell and then sells subscriptions to Windows clients who want support in making their computer systems work well alongside Linux machines.The agreement between the companies expires Jan 1, 2012. Linux is the most popular variant of open-source software. Unlike proprietary software, open-source software lets developers share code and add functions, and users only pay for custom features, maintenance and technical support. Novell said it will also spend an undisclosed sum of money to provide new tools, support, training and resources for subscribers.On this agreement Novell said that it has already invoiced $156 million in revenue from the Microsoft certificates in the first 18 months since the November 2006 start of the five-year agreement.
The pact between Microsoft and Novell stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community because it included among other things a clause saying that neither company would sue customers of the other for patent violations.This clause was seen as an endorsement of Microsoft's claim that it holds patents to intellectual property behind some open-source software, a contention rebutted by Novell and others in the open-source community.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Microsoft, Google fight over Yahoo
Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google's revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would allow Yahoo to place Google advertisements on its site and collect the revenue.The deal, which the firms have said would garner Yahoo at least $250 million in the first year, was widely seen as an effort by Yahoo to fend off Microsoft's on-again, off-again efforts to buy all or part of Yahoo.
Microsoft's most recent offer to acquire Yahoo's search business was rejected by Yahoo. Google chief legal officer David Drummond, defending his company's deal with Yahoo in written testimony for Tuesday's hearing, took a shot at Microsoft's 90 per cent share of the personal computer operating system market."Dominance of the desktop can let one company favor its own products and services and obstruct the interoperability of competing products or services, overriding the desires of consumers," said Drummond in testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith hit back, saying Google's deal would reduce Yahoo's incentive to compete against Google, would push Yahoo's search advertising platform into a downward spiral and establish an illegal price floor."When it comes to the issues before this subcommittee, Google should not be allowed to achieve an outcome through an agreement that it would not be permitted to achieve otherwise," said Smith in his written testimony.
The revenue-sharing deal has not been implemented by Google and Yahoo while they wait for an opinion from the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. Several state attorney generals have expressed concern about the arrangement."Microsoft believes the Google/Yahoo deal harms competition in several critical ways. Advertisers and online content providers would be harmed through price coordination that will establish higher prices and limit choice," said Smith. "Consumers would be put at risk as Google expands its ability to collect the personal information of users passing through its search gateway. On an even more fundamental level, Google's monopoly power would increase its ability to shape what people get to see and experience online."
Microsoft's most recent offer to acquire Yahoo's search business was rejected by Yahoo. Google chief legal officer David Drummond, defending his company's deal with Yahoo in written testimony for Tuesday's hearing, took a shot at Microsoft's 90 per cent share of the personal computer operating system market."Dominance of the desktop can let one company favor its own products and services and obstruct the interoperability of competing products or services, overriding the desires of consumers," said Drummond in testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith hit back, saying Google's deal would reduce Yahoo's incentive to compete against Google, would push Yahoo's search advertising platform into a downward spiral and establish an illegal price floor."When it comes to the issues before this subcommittee, Google should not be allowed to achieve an outcome through an agreement that it would not be permitted to achieve otherwise," said Smith in his written testimony.
The revenue-sharing deal has not been implemented by Google and Yahoo while they wait for an opinion from the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. Several state attorney generals have expressed concern about the arrangement."Microsoft believes the Google/Yahoo deal harms competition in several critical ways. Advertisers and online content providers would be harmed through price coordination that will establish higher prices and limit choice," said Smith. "Consumers would be put at risk as Google expands its ability to collect the personal information of users passing through its search gateway. On an even more fundamental level, Google's monopoly power would increase its ability to shape what people get to see and experience online."
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Google and Yahoo join hands
The hottest news of this week from the field of technology is the agreement of Yahoo and Google on their advertising partnership.Currently this agreement is valid only in United States and Canada.On the other hand Microsoft Corporation have claimed that Google already controls 70 percent of the Web search ad market and that a Yahoo deal would give Google control over 90 percent of the market.Under this agreement Google would supply Yahoo with advertising services to run alongside Yahoo's own Web search system. Yahoo runs the Web's second most popular search service. 
Google and Yahoo have sought to portray the partnership as a non-exclusive arrangement in which Yahoo is effectively contracting with Google to sell ads alongside a portion of its search results.With this agreement now Yahoo can focus on other aspects of its business where it is more strongly positioned.Neither Google nor Yahoo told about the financial terms and the extent of other ties between the two.While the contract reveals details of previously disclosed plans to make Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk, the companies' instant messaging (IM) systems, work together, it redacts four of the five other points in this "other business" section.
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