RSSGoogle Launches Webmaster Site
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 25, 2006, 4:40 PM
Google on Friday rolled out a new service designed to enable the company to better interact with webmasters around the world. The site offers a variety of tools related to the company's search engine, including a status wizard to see if Google is properly indexing a specific URL.
Webmaster Central will also feature a blog to keep users informed about how Google crawls the Web, an expanded Webmaster Help Google Group, and a number of FAQs. As part of the Webmaster tools service, formerly called Google Sitemaps, users can add a Web site to their Google account and make changes to how it is indexed.
Oh and by the way, this is just a feeble attempt by Google to push the responsibility to create decent results off to the webmasters and take less responsibility for their less-than-desirable results. Larry (cofounder of Google) has said himself numerous times over the last few years in press conferences that he's not satisfied with the results...so why should anybody else be?
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Google is by no means leaving results ranking up to the individual webmasters. That would be suicide. All we would have is link-spam.
The tools this page links to merely help the individual webmasters ensure that their page(s) is/are being represented accurately, and that they can be found.
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Not sure on your source here, but sitemaps is nothing new, nor are google blogs. Honestly, I think I've seen the "new" page quite some time ago...so I think you've got some shifty info.
And while Google most certainly isn't the devil, they have done their fair share of evil...including stealing millions of dollars from adsense and adwords customers.
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I have added my website www.vineeth.uni.cc to the system but can't find any page rank increase. Does this takes long time??
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Google is the devil!
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Ummm... is it just me, or does this *new* service just provide links to *other* services that have been there all along?
...and it doesn't even include Google Analytics.
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I used Google Sitemaps sometime last week prior to this launch of Webmaster Central. I found it useful to get pages crawled which were for some reason overlooked by Googlebot.
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One of my company's URL's said August 1969 as well, but the other URL said last week. So i'm not sure what's going on with that.
This site is pretty useful. Just spent my afternoon creating an XML Sitemap List and exporting useful keyword searches from past customers. Neato!
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LOL - it says "Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Dec 31, 1969" - does that make my site on of the oldest on the net? :)
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Well the internet itself has been around since the 1950's. It was created by the Navy so incase of the nuclear war we could communicate. However, of course much has changed since then. Oh wait, I thought Al Gore invented the internet LOL ROFL
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Actually, that date occurs when a timestamp isn't valid...looks like a possible but in the code. ;)
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looks like a possible but in the code
Did you mean a possible bug in the code, or a possible butt in the code? =p
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Yes?
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