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Google just recently patented its home page design. Were you able to notice it? Actually, it was their search box. As you can see, the search boxes of Google are now larger and bigger compared to what they have before.

According to Marissa Mayer of Google, when it comes to search boxes, it is better to have bigger in sizes. This allows your texts to be larger. Also, Google Suggest dropdown text is also in bigger in sizes.

Analyzing the new bigger search boxes, its effect to Google users will vary on the users themselves if they are enjoying the search experience with smaller or bigger search boxes.

Google continues to improve its search powers to maintain its supremacy. Just recently, if you were able to notice it, Google’s search samples have some improvements.

If you’re going to google for a certain topic, it will also display anchor based links on the search engine snippets. This includes the definition of the main topic you’re searching. It can be found directly below the main search entry.

The main reason why these anchor based links are showing on the search engine snippets is that Google recently added Sitelinks, an anchor based service, to their search engine results.

Google recently launched its UK-based collection of statistics from various range of topics. Named as Google Internet Stats, it brings together all the information and latest facts all in one place. This service came from different third party vendors and they’re also opening the service to all interested contributors.

A wide range of data providers offered their services to Google Internet Stats such as B2Bonline.com, Comscore, Financial Times, Forrester, Google Insights for Research, Hitwise, JP Morgan, Media & Marketing, Motorola, New York Magazine, Nielsen, QuickPlay Media Inc., Reuters, Times Online, TNS, Wall Street Journal, and YouTube among others.

The range of topics are divided into several categories including Consumer Trends, Community, Entertainment, Information, eCommerce, Macro Economic Trends, Rest of the World, UK Media Consumption, Changes in Media Usage, Demographic Usage, Media Consumption Stats, Media Multi-tasking, Personalized Media Experiences, All Media, Online Technology, Broadband, Devices, Mobile and Speed.

Though the service is under the globally known Google, this new service will only be available to UK and that there are no current plans of releasing this tool worldwide.

It’s still a question and part of long discussions whether the domains directly affects SEO or search rankings. But in a recent discussion with Google, nobody says yes, but nobody mentioned a no either. 

Domain registration is a factor to know your website easily. That will help your readers easily search for your site by just typing the name of your site in the URL address. But in terms of web ranking, does it really helps? 

For the record, there’s no search engine that confirmed that they are using the length of registration in domains as a factoring in scoring. It means, as of now, all the scoring are just based on content posts and traffic it gets. 

Trying to think deeper for this scenario, for websites that are popular in its category, length of registration doesn’t matter. Because people already know their sites and could easily browse for it. But for non-popular sites that are struggling to get higher rankings, the domain registration’s length is important in order for the search engines to crawl for it, and have it added on their data banks.

Google, despite its frosty relationship with the newspapers, proposed a micropayment system giving the latter’s industry a chance to charge for their online content. The system is ased on Google Checkout which will be available within a year to Google and non-Google services. 

With this proposal which was submitted to the Newspaper Association of America, Google is giving the newspaper industry a scalable e-commerce system through their Checkout product.  

Google’s proposal includes the following five key features: single sign-on capability, ability for publishers to combine subscriptions, ability to for publishers to create multiple payment options, multiple tiers of access to search, and an advertising system. 
Hopefully, this proposal will make both sides – Google and the newspaper industry – take advantage with their partnership.

Many of you have written asking us if we have seen the change with the Google preferences and whether we know or not what happened.

Yes, we have figured out what happened so we will answer the question for anyone who is still trying to figure it out.

On the Google search page or home page, there was a link called “preferences” in between “advanced search” and “language tools”. It has been removed but not deleted. Really, it has just been renamed and repositioned.

You may now find the preferences under “search settings” in the very top right of the page. In between “igoogle” and “login”.

Hope that helps!