The Year 2009 of the Web
In 2008, Google improved the search engine user experience by creating a very fine control of duplicate content which led to the end of many directories and sites filled with RSS feeds.
In 2009 the main engines solve the problem of duplicate content on a site by creating a canonical tag.
In 2009 it is expected that the development of services offered by Google will continu to grow. This is already the case of Earth, which allows to visit the ocean and Maps to locate mobile phones.
The search engine should also be aware of changes to provide results more relevant and webmasters will have to revise their methods of optimization.
New tools from Google.
- Chrome is now the third browser.
- Go from Google and other programming languages.
- New: Dashboard shows all that Google knows about you.
- Source code of Google Chrome OS available to download.
- New interface for AdSense (the tutorial).
- Google Store replaces price comparison sites.
- Chrome 4.0 supports Native Client.
- Google Building Maker will improve Earth.
- Google offers a personal search engine.
- Sidewiki: Building Wikipedia from comments.
- Dictionary: One more service from Google.
- Browser Size: another free tool from Google.
News of the year...
- Wordpress 2.9 is available to download.
- Moonlight 2.0 for rich Web applications.
- The speed of a site, soon a ranking factor.
- The future of the Web by Google.
- The second wind of Second Life.
- Photosketch: A fast photo composer.
- The future of search engines.
- Voting for the Google future.
- Microsoft's Bing now with visual search.
- PageRank algorithm adapted to the nature.
- The end of domain tasting.
- First domain thief arrested in USA.
- PHP 5.3 and PHP 6, new features.
- Optimizing PHP: Google vs. PHP team.
- The Opera browser is now a server.
- The Alexa mystery.
- Screenshot and overview of Bing (Kumo)
- Wolfram Alpha is online. Description.
- Windows 7 for free!
- Who killed Encarta?
- Geocities soon closed.
- Projects of Microsoft for the future.
- Official: Java and MySQL bought by Oracle.
- Evolution of the Google's algorithm in 2009.
- Silverlight 3 is a competitor to Adobe AIR.
- Google and Live Search smarter.
- Revolution of fast video games.
- Why you will not appear on the Digg's home.
- Cybersquatting: USA and UK at top.
- Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator released.
- Start of the Native Client contest.
- Safari 4 is fast and inspired by Chrome.
- Did Google Earth find Atlantis?
- PageRank penalties: one year after.
- Duplicate content problem solved forever.
- The end of online statistics?
- Google Earth 5.0: Oceans and history.
- Live Search for Videos: the Top!
- Fastest-growing sites.
- Top 15 countries using Internet.
- Top sites.
- Duplicate content solved.
- State of the Web design.
- Evolution of social networks in 2008.
New scripts and softwares
In addition to the newly created scripts, the merging of Scriptol.org with Scriptol.com has enriched the library of several programs.