Victorian
Government
Contact Centre
1300 366 356
Government
Contact Centre
1300 366 356
Main Menu
Resize Text
Categories, RSS and More
RSS News Feeds
Rate this Site
Members Forum
Google Search Engine
Articles and resources about the Google search engine.
Jump to:
External Links
404
External Links
- The Need for Speed: What Does Google's Caffeine Mean to You?
- by Stone Reuning. Search Engine Guide Blog, June 14, 2010. "Google's new system for indexing content on the Internet, Caffeine, went live June 8. It used to be that Google updated its indexes every couple weeks. Now it's darn close to real time. This is good news if you update your content regularly. Since Google now refreshes its index much more frequently, it will be constantly looking for the most relevant results to display for any given search phrase..."
Added: 17 June 2010;
Page views: 346
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Our new search index: Caffeine
- Posted by Carrie Grimes, Software Engineer. Google Webmaster Central Blog, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. "Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before..."
Added: 10 June 2010;
Page views: 300
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
- Written by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Trends Analyst. Google Webmaster Central Blog, Monday, June 7, 2010. "Today we're releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undesirable 'soft' or 'crypto' 404s. A 'soft 404' occurs when a webserver responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code for a page that doesn't exist rather than the appropriate 404 Not Found. Soft 404s can limit a site's crawl coverage by search engines because these duplicate URLs may be crawled instead of pages with unique content..."
Added: 9 June 2010;
Page views: 468
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Federal Police asked to investigate Google
- By Renai LeMay and AAP, Delimiter.com.au. ZDNet Australia, June 7, 2010. "Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has asked the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate whether Google breached any laws during its inadvertent collection of Wi-Fi data around the globe..."
Added: 7 June 2010;
Page views: 546
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- PTO teams with Google on database
- By Juliana Gruenwald, CongressDaily. NextGov, 2 June 2010. "The Patent and Trademark Office announced today it has reached a two-year "no-cost" agreement with Google to make patent and trademark data electronically available for free to the public in bulk form..."
Added: 3 June 2010;
Page views: 267
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Benefits of Google Encrypted Search
- Google's new SSL-encrypted search guards search data crossing the Web, and locally, by Tony Bradley (PC World (US online)), 24 May 2010. "Google launched a new beta service this week--encrypted search using SSL (secure sockets layer) to protect searches from being snooped or intercepted while traversing the Internet. Encrypted Google search is still not entirely private, but it has benefits for individuals and businesses to ensure sensitive information is not exposed to prying eyes..."
Added: 27 May 2010;
Page views: 269
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Privacy Commissioner meets with Google
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, May 17, 2010. "The Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner said that the Commissioner was meeting with representatives from Google this afternoon to discuss Google revelations that it had inadvertently been recording Wi-Fi data..."
Added: 18 May 2010;
Page views: 445
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Google only spied on public data
- By Renai LeMay, Delimiter.com.au. ZDNet Australia, May 17, 2010. "Google's decision to stop its Street View cars collecting harmless data on the location of Wi-Fi hotspots (including in Australia) is an overreaction to the baseless concerns of a few privacy experts and should be reversed..."
Added: 17 May 2010;
Page views: 378
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Google admits to Wi-Fi spying
- By Marguerite Reardon, Tom Krazit and Elinor Mills, CNET News.com. ZDNet Australia, May 17, 2010. "Google has admitted that it has been snooping on Wi-Fi users as its Street View cars have been riding around neighbourhoods throughout the world collecting data for its mapping service..."
Added: 17 May 2010;
Page views: 327
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Google data gathering in NZ questioned
- Privacy issues raised over search engine's data collection methods, By Tom Fitzsinmons - The Dominion Post - Wellington, Friday, 14 May, 2010. "Google has collected personal wireless internet data from New Zealand homes through cars sent around the country for its Street View project. The internet giant confirmed the fact last night, after privacy watchdogs in Germany, Britain and Australia raised concerns about the practice. Fears include the possibility that Google could match people's mobile devices and internet behaviour to home addresses..."
Added: 14 May 2010;
Page views: 688
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Google Wi-Fi scans raise privacy issues
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, May 14, 2010. "Australian privacy advocates have asked Google to reveal what Wi-Fi information its Street View cars are collecting as they scout the streets of Australia..."
Added: 14 May 2010;
Page views: 407
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Privacy is alive and well at Google
- Posted by Alma Whitten, Privacy Engineering Lead, Google. The Official Google Australia Blog, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (Editor's note: Yesterday the New Zealand Herald ran this article by Google Privacy Engineering Lead Alma Whitten, about Privacy Awareness Week - we're reposting it here for you to enjoy). This week marks Privacy Awareness Week, the annual effort to put the spotlight on all things privacy-related. At Google, we're thinking about privacy every single day, across every level of our company. Why? Because privacy is both good for people who use our services and critical for our business..."
Added: 6 May 2010;
Page views: 490
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- A spring metamorphosis - Google's new look
- Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience. The Official Google blog, 5 May 2010. "Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout..."
Added: 6 May 2010;
Page views: 235
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Are you a citizen of Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK, Google or Facebook? Blurring governments and companies
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's personal eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. "Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world's knowledge, it is learning about the world's citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel - even how well they are..."
Added: 29 April 2010;
Page views: 198
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
- Custom data rendering in results
- Posted by: David Gibson and Nicholas Weininger, Software Engineers. Google Custom Search Blog, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. "... through Custom Search data rendering in the element, we're providing you the ability to completely customize the layout of each result. With simple inline markup on the search page, you can override result attributes, decide how each result is formatted, control the size and location of thumbnails and highlight result metadata..."
Added: 19 April 2010;
Page views: 540
Rating: 0
Votes: 0
This category last updated: 16 May 2013
Translate, Search, Login and Options
Search
Translate
Mailing List
Enter your email address to subscribe or unsubscribe from the eGov What's New mailing list.
Email a Friend
Please enter email address of the person you wish to send this page to.
