Source: quirk.biz

SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for users of both Firefox and Mozilla, designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers. The toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar.

For every site you visit using Firefox or Mozilla, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy.

The SearchStatus Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox extension appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar. If you choose to view backward links for a particular page, they open in new tabs in the same browser window. Disable the automatic Google and Alexa queries and they fold away from view.

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Source: pandia.com

Yes, Google will include web pages with or without accents in search engine results, but the mix will vary.

Especially Non-English speakers are faced with a problem when it comes to words with accents. Is it Mexico or México? And what happens if you search for one or the other?

Well, the short answer is that Google will include web pages containing both variations in the search engine results, regardless of which variant you put in the search form.

You may force Google to sort out one spelling only by putting a + sign in front of the word, like this: +México.

Google may still include a few pages with Mexico (caused by the fact that the anchor text of inbound links may be using the México alternative), but most of the pages will include México only).

However, in a Webmaster Radio podcast Vanessa Fox of Google adds that search engine results may vary from user to user.

The mix of search engine results is, for instance, influenced by the home page of the user (using google.es will bring up more pages with México than Mexico as compared to google.com).

Google will also take the language of the google.com home page into consideration. If you select Spanish as your preferred language, more Spanish language results will appear.

Finally, Google may also take a look at your IP number in order to determine where you are in the world. Searching google.com from Venezuela may therefore also give you different SERPs or search engine result pages.

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Source: pcworld.com

At the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit in San Francisco, Google announced a plan to de-emphasizing Froogle as a shopping search engine and move its comparison-shopping capabilities to Google.com.

The system will present users with another search box when searching on Google.com so that they can refine their query. After that Google will take them to a second page populated with product results from the Google Base listings service.

Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com Web search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season.

A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit in San Francisco last week, according to people who were at the conference.

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When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query.

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