Having completed a month long testing of CloudFlare, a content distribution network (CDN), we decided to go ahead and activate it on some of our live sites.
Within the last couple of weeks, Google updated it site speed algorithm, which calculates how well a website is configured for optimal site speed. We have been working hard keeping our websites as fast as possible: last fall, Google made it clear that site speed is going to be an important factor in Google's search ranking algorithm. As a result of our efforts, our websites obtained a site speed of 80 to 95 on average.
Google just keeps getting better! Now there's a comprehensive new refreshment for the search screen which has taken effect worldwide.
Overall, the new design has a friendlier feel to it and provides a more intuitive navigation to the search options displayed on the left-side panel.
How do you conduct a Google search in Persian, Russian, or Thai if your keyboard is standard English? And how can you Google a non-English search term if you don't have a non English keyboard? It's super easy!
Google held Atmosphere 2010, on April 12 at Google HQ in Mountain View, California. Based on the significant media attention this event received, along with the interviews and newsworthy presentations, it will likely be one of the highlights of the web community in 2010. It was a rare occasion for Google executives to publicly spell out the company's long term vision for how the Internet is developing and the role Google wishes to play in its' development.
