The social networking website Orkut owned and operated by the search giant is proving to be a source of worry after a court in Brazil fined Google for not blocking pages which contained dirty jokes on Orkut.

The court in Rondonia fined Google $2700 for each day that the pages remained up and ordered the company to stop similar material being posted.

Google’s argument that the company does not have sufficient technology and staff to police Orkut rejected by the court stating that the company has already implemented such curbs on its pages in China.

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China’s state-run Xinhua news agency in a signed commentary accused Google for breaking promised. It said that while entering in the Chinese market and before starting business, the search giant has promised to filter harmful and objectionable content but now suddenly they want to break their promise and criticizing the country for worsening of the investment environment.

On the other hand Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged the US administration to make the censorship row between China and the Internet giant a “high priority”, in an interview published on Wednesday.

Google said it would no longer filter results on China based Google.cn and was redirecting mainland Chinese users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong effectively closing down the mainland site.

Updates:

China portal takes over two services:

Popular Chinese web portal Tianya.cn said it is taking over operation of two services developed and formerly operated with Google after the search giant took a risky stand against China’s strict internet censorship rules by moving its search engine offshore.

Hong Kong tycoon’s internet firm cuts ties

The internet firm owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, severed ties with Google’s search services, sparking concerns that other companies may pull away too. Hong Kong-listed TOM Online said it would adhere to China’s laws.

Censorship still on for some customers

Google Inc is still censoring search content for some of its customers in China. The decision to provide censored searches was made to honor contracts with current business partners, and Google will continue to meet those commitments, it said.

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I recently received an email from Google Adsense as a publisher which informs that it has applied the functionality in the network in which Google certified third party ad networks can directly compete with AdWords publisher to show their ads on Google Content Network.

Below is the original email:

“Hi,

We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you’ll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks or all networks except AdWords. Please note that we’ll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won’t see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To ensure the quality of the ads that appear on AdSense publisher websites, Google will certify all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. Some participating ad networks use targeting methods similar to Google’s interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won’t be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we’ll allow networks that comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. Publishers can opt out of user interest targeting from these ad networks, and Google has changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this.

We are currently only accepting ads from Google-certified ad networks in North America and Europe, but we will make this feature available to ad networks in additional parts of the world in the future.”

So how is it going to profit Adsense Publishers like us?

1. Larger number of inventory
2. More Number of Ads availability
3. Better eCPM and ROI
4. More Command over ads flexibility

And much more… these are the predictions and the original effect will be visible in coming months:

Want to know more visit these links

1. AdSense Help Center: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=13522
2. 2. Official AdSense Blog: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-certified-ad-networks-now.html

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China made it clear – Either Follow our Rules or Pack your Baggage from the country

Chinese Minister of industry and information technology Li Yizhong made it clear to Google that if they want to continue their business in the country, they would have to follow their rules and regard the wills of Chinese internet users.

Google has always been opposing the censorship which china enforce, following which it is threatening to leave the country for a very long time.

Now when the county made it clear that they are ready to live without Google, now the decision has to be made by the search giant whether to heed the demands of the government or leave their flourishing business in china.

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As we all know search engines are always looking for fresh and unique content all over the web and the main source for them for new content are blogs. This is the reason Blogging platforms like wordpress has always been apple’s eye for search engines.

By the way today topic is “How much time it takes for Google to cache and rank a web page”

For the purpose I have done an experiment and I want to share the results with you all.

I have a health related blog, providing information on skin care. So let’s begin how it all happened.

1. Chosen a two word phrase keyword, which roughly gets 4200 searches a month and has a competition of 1883000 in Google and 15150 while searching with quotes.

2. Wrote an article of 550 words and posted on my blog.

3. Submitted the link to digg.com

After 5 minutes when I checked, I saw that the article was cached by Google. Then I checked the ranking of the post for the keyword and I was amazed to see that the articles was ranking on number 7 on the first page and the digg.com listing was ranking on number 4.

I knew that this was just a temporary ranking and it will come down. So next day I have done around 25 Social Bookmarking of the blog post and again checked the ranking few hours later, the articles was ranking on number 24 (on the third page). After that I have left it as it is and now after a week the blog post have gained a stable ranking on the second page of Google on number 14.

I have decided to do some blog comments for it and then observe its effect on ranking.

I will update you all with the results.

Do you all have done any such experiments, if yes please share with us all.

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