Promote your blog by Pinging

Many people are confused about the Blog and Ping. Simply, when an author has updated their blog and put on new posts, he might want the search engines and blog directories to know about this, so that they can update the content as soon as possible. Many blog tools automatically ping the servers when the blogger makes a new post.

However, the owner of the search engine wants his aggregator to have the new and outstanding posts. Those who lose the chance has to turn to the ping services, which can ping many servers at a time. That is why they are so popular and growing quickly.

Here is a list of the popular Pings.

pingomatic.com
pingmyblog.com
pingoat.com
pinger.blogflux.com

Free Directories

Link submission in free directories is the easiest free way to get link for your website. Most free directories can’t provide high traffic, but it still gives link credit and can increase rankings in search engines. Approval rate in free directories could be from 10% (for commercial) to 46% (for non profit well designed sites)

Before you begin submissions you have to pick 3-5 titles (anchor text), several descriptions, and different keywords. It will help you to avoid link similarity. If you submit your link in more than 100 directories using the same title, Google and other search engines might think that you are trying to use “black hat SEO” strategy which called “keyword spam”. Also, it is not the best thing to submit in hundreds directories in short time. It is better to use a list and submit in 50-100 directories every week or month.

To be approved in most directories you have to submit your site using reach description and related title. Directory owners don’t like when webmasters trying to add spammy keywords in anchor text. Using all caps (large letters) not the best idea, in this case chance for approval can drop to zero. Picking categories try to find the most appropriate page which related to your site or weblog. Many webmasters trying to submit their sites in top level categories only, directory owners refuse to approve links like this.

Submitting your site in directory you have to check if directory homepage and other pages indexed by major search engines. Strong directory should have pages with pagerank 1+ on other than homepage pages.

Approval chances:
Most likely will be approved: high pagerank, rich description, related category, good design, non-profit, unique content, homepage.
Most likely will be not approved: pagerank 0, not indexed by search engines, site made Google adds only, all caps in description, adult / gambling / hacks content, poor design, poor content, deep links.

List of strongest free directories:

http://www.dmoz.com

http://www.jayde.com/

http://www.ezilon.com/

http://www.splut.com/

http://www.pegasusdirectory.com/

http://www.skoobe.biz/

http://www.seekzap.com/

http://searchsight.com/

http://www.jamjaa.com/

http://www.freshtv.com/

http://www.dramba.com/

http://www.listmyniche.com/

more directories you will find here: List of free directories and strongest directories

ManhattanService provide directory submission service for their clients who applied for website promotion service.

Check who link your competitors

As we all know, the best link is a link when related site link yours. Today it is hard to find free place to add backlink. Link market became more commercial and corrupted. But there are still a lot of ways to find good places for link submission and exchange. I always suggest to check who link your competitors. If someone link site related to yours… why can’t they link your site the same way? Moreover; if Google gives your competitor good positions based on his backlink portfolio… it mean that your site could have the same rankings after you submit site in the same place. If you already have backlinks and you get the same links as your competitors it will be still many differences between your and your client link portfolio. Google and other search engines will never punish your site for link similarity.

To check your competitor backlinks you can simply type in Google or Yahoo (better) search box link:www.domain.com and it will give you a list of pages with website links. You can use backlink checker tools as well. I really like to use Domain Pop and LinkVendor. They give information about backlinks together with pagerank and site ip.

After you discover sites that link related websites you should follow submission forms or find e-mail of webmaster to contact. Use simple language to ask about your site link. Offer link exchange and even donation for simple link, post, or review.

Read also: Creating link exchange page on your site. , 11 ways to get free pr5+ backlinks for your site. , Definition of quality links , Content / contextual links , Link Building

Smart way to sumit your RSS feeds

It is easy when you add your site in directories. Submission form - editor approval - link added - search engines indexed and that’s it. Most bloggers found it tough to add their RSS feeds because in most cases you can submit your feed in hundreds network and even after approval your posts never visible for readers and search engines.

As for me, I don’t even know why some RSS feed networks exist. There are many one page sites which just offer to submit feed and later god only knows were this feed appear and who need it.

I would suggest you to do it smart way when you simply check popular blogs to see how their pages indexed in search engines. Often it takes 2-6 weeks for crawlers to find link and index it. Yahoo (Alltheweb) show indexed links right away. In this case you can simply check how some authority blog posts are indexed and who link them. Take full URL of post which was made month before and copy in AllTheWeb search box, don’t forget to type link: in the beginning. It will show you all links which point to this URL. In most cases you will see social networks and RSS feed portals which catch this post and linked it in news blocks, and pages about this feed.

Example: Let’s take popular blog ShoeMoney. I checked their post which was made 3 weeks ago: http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/08/10/different-ads-on-the-sidebar/

when i typed on AllTheWeb link:http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/08/10/different-ads-on-the-sidebar/ it gave me list of websites which link this post. Now i can see that ShoeMoney RSS feed really work on www.myfeedz.com and www.bumpzee.com. Cool! Now i can visit this networks and add my RSS. It will increase importance of my posts and will improve their rankings ( read Increase importance of web pages. and How to make Google to index pages faster… ).

It takes a little time and effort, but you will be happy when you check your backlinks later using Google webmaster tools. 100% natural deep links will never hurt your site. Read more: Deep links - better traffic , Importance of deep links.

Deep links - better traffic

I made a lot of posts before about deep links and building internal pages for your website:

Increase importance of web pages.

Importance of deep links

Simple steps to increase traffic.

Domain Power

How to make Google to index pages faster…

Through these articles you can see that deep links are really important in website promotion.

Today I would like to comeback to this topic to give more reasons for you. I am really tired to read articles how to increase web page rankings, how to optimize your wordpress or nuke site for Google, how to avoid supplemental results, and how tom make search engines to index all pages. For this entire question there one simple answer - build deep links. Do you think that it is easy for Google to crawl websites like MySpace, LifeJournal, or Yahoo. This sites have millions pages, and it is way more difficult to crawl all pages on this sites. But their owners don’t really care about optimization of web pages. Moreover, some of their pages 10-20 clicks away from homepage or well promoted subdomain. Their pages well indexed by search engines only because million people link their deep pages and Google or MSN access this pages directly thought deep links and crawl site even deeper.

Every time when you build deep link it give search engine a message that there are some important information on this page, and page automatically become higher in search engine index. It is very important to have at least 10-15 extra links for pages where you offer some kind of service, or product. Internal links is the most powerful marketing tool for your online business.

I would love to give you some extra information you can find about deep linking on another site:
Deep Linking is Good Linking (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Also, there are a lot of directories which accept deep links:

http://www.deeplink.us/

http://www.deeplinksdir.com/

http://www.deeperlinks.com/

http://www.deeplinks.org/

http://www.vbs.in/

http://www.deephyperlinks.com/

http://www.mydeeplinks.com/

http://www.deeplylinked.com/

http://www.indexseeker.com/

http://www.freedeeplinks.com/

http://www.entireaccess.com/

Even more… here you will find dosend directories which allow webmaster to submit deep links for free: Deep Links Directory List.

Good luck. Please reply if you know any good place to add deep links.

Ways to get free backlinks for your site.

Many webmasters believe that it is extremely hard to get pagerank 5+ backlinks. There are whole theory that only buying links site can get pr5 and higher. I would like to show different non spammy ways to get pr5-pr7 backlinks for your website without spamming and buying them.

1) Submit your site in DMOZ. It might take a while, but pr5-6 backlink benefit guarantee in 70% categories.

2) Write articles in powerful article directories. If you write 1 article, it will give you only low pagerank link because story will disappear later in archive… but here is a trick. If you create profile on powerful article directory with pr7+ homepage and write 10-15 articles it will give at least 10-15 backlinks to your profile from different articles you wrote. This links will make Google believe that your profile page is an important part of website and Google give pr5 or even 6 to your profile page with your link. Good article directories you can find here.

3) Use high pagerank niche forums to write posts. Check old posts and see if old pages got pr5+. Join this forum and post adding link in signature and profile. Attention: don’t cheat replying to old posts… forum owners know this trick and your ip will be banned. New post will get deserved pagerank with next update. To find forums use http://www.big-boards.com/.

4) Google it! If your site about cars; type on Google “Cars exchange link with us” or “cars link exchange page” etc… Most likely old well promoted pages will appear on top with offers to exchange link with related sites directly from this site. Most this pages already have pr5 or pr6.

5) Write testimonial. Try to remember SEO, link exchange, web promotion services you were using. Also think about your partners. Visit these sites and see if they have “testimonials page”. Suggest writing your feedback for them and your picture with link might appear on quality pr5+ page.

6) Check competitors. If someone link your competitor, why they can’t link your site especially if it the same topic. Use backlink checker tools ( Domain-Pop or LinkVendor ) and search engine databases by typing link:www.domain.com on Google or Yahoo.

7) Providing free software, tools, content for another websites. Some of you might think that they are not so geeky to create tools, scripts, stuff to copy and paste on other sites. That’s right, but you can simply offer webmasters free buttons you made, regular pictures, clipart, etc. Point that only webmasters who link back can use design, pictures, tools on their sites. I know some people who got pr8 and pr9 this way.

8) Visit your favorite sites which related to yours to see if there is any way to suggest link. It is smile way which it seems doesn’t work anymore because of spammers… but it is not true. Many webmasters are still happy to link related sites from their established resources and pr6-pr7 pages. Not everything for money!

9) Write some Wikipedia alike pages with all information you know. It can give you good links including .edu and .gov if you are perfect writer. Use stuff like “100 ways to get success…”, “50 tips to get…”. Bloggers love to link pages like this. You also have a good chance to appear on Digg frontpage. Remember that content is the king.

10) Build pr4 links. If you build 20 pr4 links it is a big chance that 1-5 of them will be pr5 with couple updates. Most webmasters are trying to improve their pagerank.

11) For bloggers: visit most popular blogs and check their buttons in sidebar. Many of them keep buttons of free blog directories which simply provide pr5+ links from their categories. There are way more free height pagerank directories for bloggers than for other sites.

Best RSS feed submission sites

In many cases Google and other search engines are not able to see links to your posts from some sites where you submitted your RSS. Here list of best sites which will give you a chance to share your news and all your links will be indexed by search engines. It is the best way to build deep links for your site.

rss-spider.com - Google will be able to see links to most of your blog posts.

genwi.com - your links and posts will be shared with another users.

zimbio.com- good social network which show users links to your posts.

othersonline.com

feedburner.com

feeds2read.net - great way to share your blog

myfeedz.com - all best bloggers use this one.

blogoriffic.com

outpost-earth.com once i got over 1000 visitors from this site.

technorati.com

blogdune.com

squidoo.com rank really well on Google.

mybloglog.com

blogcatalog.com

bumpzee.com

spicypage.com

explode.elgg.org

shoutwire.com

How to rank well on Google

In past year Google completely changed algorithms and now it rank websites different way. 2-3 years ago it was competition when amount of links played a big role. Websites which appear today in most cases made more professional and they are more interesting than dinosaur websites which appeared more than 10 years ago. Google understand that it is hard to compete with site which already has 100 000 backlinks even if your new website way better.

Today Google doesn’t really care how many links you have and how many high pagerank sites link yours. Google cares how quality your backlinks are. It gives more opportunity to new ideas.

You should agree… it is complicated to add your site in 500 directories and exchange links with 200 webmasters. And it is really sad when someone rich just pays money and his site receives bunch good links in one day. Google also understand this and changes which was made in the past improved internet a lot.

Here some rules:

1) Submit your site only in niche directories. It means that you should avoid free and paid general directories. Pick only health directories if your site about health. Google will place your site in right niche right away to send you targeted traffic. In this case you help Google more to improve and they like it!

2) Add your site in DMOZ and Yahoo directory. Yahoo directory is the only paid directory Google trust and $300 investment shows that you are serious about your business.

3) Add your site in social networks. It tells right away that you follow time and make right decisions to promote your site.

4) Promote your site the same way like you promote your business. Imagine if you don’t have a website and you are trying to promote regular business. In this case you have to be everywhere… visiting press conferences, exhibitions, castings, forums, press meetings, etc you let other know that your business exist and this way you build relationships. The same way in online world. For Google it is important that information about your site were published in media website, that link was featured on some website which discussed latest conference, some newspaper wrote about your business in online edition.

5) Register business and submit your site in most popular business catalogs and maps. Try to avoid cheap directories and link pages.

6) Ask your business partners to write about your site in their corporate blogs and websites. If you have partners and clients with websites… ask them to link you.

If you follow this steps, your site will appear on top really fast even when you have only 50-100 backlinks. Google became really picky and they love to put on top serious websites which belong to real businesses, companies, media organizations, retail stores, legal businesses, and professional bloggers. Google rank website well if they see that it is real business with real name and ambitions.

10 best free places to add your link

There are valuable websites, directories, and social networks which approve all types of websites (blogs, forums, general web pages).

1) Digg - if you are not there yet… you miss a lot. Digg provide average traffic for all websites even 1 year after submission. If you submit your articles and stories on average basis it can give you several hundreds visitors each month and valuable backlink for Google. Moreover, if your story became featured and appear for couple hours on frontpage… your traffic can jump up to 1 000 000 visitors during busy business day and 20 000 - 200 000 visitors during nighttime.

2) DMOZ - still not there? Hurry, everyday it become harder to be approved. If your link rejected, try again in 3-4 month. Make sure that you found the most appropriate category for your site. Also, try to give the best description you can without trying to put keywords, spam phrases, and offers. DMOZ still count’s by Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines.

3) SpicyPage - most social networks prefer to accept only weblogs, news sites, or RSS feeds. SpicyPage offer to create real profile for your site with description, additional links, sub domain submission, pictures, ranking buttons, comments… Google pick new added links to these networks in 1-5 hours.

4) EzineArticles - the best article directory (more article social network) where people can write and share articles. Almost all article pages reach pr5-6 with every pagerank update. It is also the best place to expose your writing skills.

5) DirectoryCritic top 10 /100. Have you ever checked Directory critic? Good network to find best rated and most popular directories with fast approval and good traffic. If you go deep and become submit your site in hundreds directories you will see that many of them are crappy, but you have to add your site at least in top 10 or top 20 free or niche directories.

6) Furl. Do you remember great “dot com bubble” network called LookSmart. Yes, they still around and their search engine kind of sucks, but this guys have Furl which count as one of the most popular social bookmarking network. Google and other search engine still count LookSmart projects as valuable and important websites (kind of support for old friend and competitor). Adding your link to Furl you automatically receive a quality link for your website.

7) MySpace. Create profile of your business / hobby on MySpace. You can create blog, group, forum and link your site when it is appropriate. Be careful, because you are close to become a spammer but… if you provide fresh idea, good content, promote this group a little bit, support it… your MySpace website / business profile could be a great thing for your business and extra traffic.

8 ) MyBlogLog. Even if you don’t have blog or a website with news page and active RSS feeds you can still create profile for yourself and share link to your website. MyBlogLog was just sold to Yahoo… good sign.

9) Pegasusdirectory - #1 directory according DirectoryCritic. This guys approve free links really fast providing best category. I really like this general directory.

10) 43 things. Social networks to share things to do. If you post your link right away… account will be banned. You have to write a little bit and only after to post your link.

Top 10 Website Directories promote the websites

These are the top 10 ranked website directories. Add your site in the directories to promote your site and get more traffic. They are all free.

DigitalDir.eu
pegasusdirectory.com
search-dir.com
1stchoicesearch.com
wlinker.com
e-sentiment.net
surfcell.co.uk
webenginedirectory.com
2-Surf.net
clubftp.com

Get more traffic

addurlnow.com let you to submit your site in their categorized web directory for free if you add a link from their sponsors to your site. It's good like a link exchange, especially good for those new sites.

astrofonix.com allows you to post your free ads on their classified ads. They have many language and country choices. It also offers to choice to post event, image, and others.

Linkalizer.com is another link exchange. You can submit your site to linkalizer for free and wait to be processed within 72 hours. You can also buy Paid Link Exchange: $37 to all 1244 Linkalizer members.

e-referrer gives the idea to provide automatic link back to those who link to you. With E-referrer it's all done on in one fell swoop. Our script monitors visitors are they come to your website. If they've come in from a link on another site, it registers the referral and posts it back on the same page. This is very important because users will see their own referral while they're on the website! It's all done in real-time!

Get paid to search

Some programs will paid us cash when we do a search using their search engine(paid per search). There are others with payroll not cash but prizes.

slashmysearch is a search engine with categorized search like image, video, and eBay etc. that pay by per search. Guaranteed to pay $0.25 per hour with up to 10 downlines.

10pays.com pays to surf online. It also has the referral program up to 10x10 downlines.

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Get paid to do offers

Treasure Troopers pays you to complete various offers. There are tons of free offers with no credit card needed. You can also earn big money with free credit card offers.
On the 15th-20th of each month, they will send the payment of you have earned a minimum of $20 by the last day of the previous month.

Get paid to post

There are some forums and blogs pay when you post on their sites.

payperpost
blogitive
Mylot is a site, or basically a forum which pays when you start discussions, reply to discussions, and upload pictures, ect.
Earning Scheme:
Posts: 0.01$ to 0.03$ per post.
Discussions: 0.001$ - 0.03$ per response and minimum 10 responses needed to get paid.
Comments: 0.001$ or more per comment minimum 10.
Photos: 0.01$ per click on your photos, by OTHER USERS so dont go about clicking on your photos it wont earn you anything.
Referrals: you earn 25% of every referral's earnings per day.

Link Exchange

I want to make lots of friends and share opinions. If you want to exchange links, please leave a comment below.

The common CP& PP words related to earning online

CPA (Cost Per Action) - Cost metric for each time a commissionable action takes place.

CPC (Cost Per Click) - Standard metric used to price ad banners. Merchants will pay affiliates based on the number of clicks a specific ad banner gets.

CPM (Cost Per Thousand) - Standard metric used to calculate the relative cost of advertising. It stands for the "cost per 1000 impressions". For every 1000 times an ad is shown, you are paid a certain amount of money.

CR (Conversion Ratio) - It is obtained by dividing the number of click-throughs on a banner or link by the number of sales or leads that resulted. A higher CR ratio means a more effective advertiser site.

Pay Per Bid (also pay per click search engine) - This is a search engine that allows you to pay for placement. If you pay 5 cents to reach position number 1 for the keyword 'bad affiliate program', then every time a visitor clicks on that link, you must pay the bid engine 5 cents.

Pay-Per-Click - Program where an affiliate receives a commission for each click on the banner that takes them to a merchant's site.

Pay-Per-Impression (same as pay-per-view and similar to pay-per-popup) - Program where affiliate get paid only for merchants' ad appearances on affiliate's site.

Pay-Per-Sale - Program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sale of a product or service that they refer to a merchant's web site.

Pay-Per-Lead (also pay per sign up or pay per registration) - Program where an affiliate receives a commission for each lead that they generate for a merchant's site. Examples would include completed surveys, contest or sweepstakes entries, downloaded software demos, or free trials. 字串2

General key words about making money online

Ad Space - Space that a webmaster is making available on his/her site for advertising.
Advertorial - Advertisement styled to resemble the editorial format and typeface of the content in which it runs.

Ad Views - Number of times an ad banner is downloaded and presumably seen by visitors.

Affiliate (also Associate or Publisher) - Web site owner that places links to promote merchant's products or services. Affiliate gets commission for all the valid transactions referred to the merchant.

Affiliate Fraud (also cheating) - False activity generated by an affiliate in an attempt to generate illegitimate revenue.

Affiliate Marketing - Type of internet marketing that allows websites to share traffic and revenue using banner and text advertisements. Merchants who sell goods and services online pay commissions to website owners (affiliates) for referring sales or leads to their site. Contrary to "pure" advertising, with affiliate marketing merchants only pay for results (leads or sales).

Affiliate Network - Company that is involved in recruiting merchants and recruiting affiliates for those merchants. Affiliate networks track affiliates, handle sending out the checks to affiliates, provide other necessary support both to affiliates and merchants.

Affiliate Program (also Associate or Partner Program) - Internet marketing model when merchants through other (affiliates'web sites promote their products and services. A merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate's site.

Charge Back - Incomplete sales transaction (i.e. merchandise is purchased and then returned) that results in an affiliate commission deduction.

Click-through - The action when a user clicks on a link.

Co-branding - When affiliates can include their own logo on the pages to which they send visitors through affiliate links.

Commission - Income an affiliate receives for generating a sale, lead or click-through to a merchant's web site. 字串4
Cookies - Small files stored on the visitor's computer that record information that is of interest to the advertiser site. Used with affiliate marketing programs, cookies have two functions: to track what a visitor purchases and to track which publisher made the referral.

CTR (Click-Through Ratio) - It is obtained by dividing the number of impressions by the number of click-throughs. A higher click-through ratio means a more effective banner, or more effective design on the Affiliate site.

Default Ads - Usually refers to unsold ad inventory. Adnetworks fail to sold your inventory due to limited number of advertisers or geographic location of your's site visitors.

Direct Referrals - People whom you directly refer to affiliate program.

Discount Rate - Percentage that gets discounted (deducted) from the transaction amount. The Discount Rate is the rate that gets paid for the most part to the bankcard company (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), the Issuing Bank (the bank that issued the bankcard to your customer) and the Acquiring Bank (the bank that the merchant processes with).

Doorway Page - A page made specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords, serving as an entry point through which visitors pass to the main content.

Email Signature (or Sig File) - Signature option allows for a brief message to be imbedded at the end of every email that a person sends.

FFA - Free-for-all links list, where there are no qualifications for adding a link.

Frequency Cap - Term referring to a limit on the number of times a given ad will be shown to a visitor from a website. Website utilizing ads from an advertiser with a frequency cap of two would show their ad only two times to each visitor and no more. After the frequency cap is exhausted other ads would have to be shown.

Geotargeting - When advertisements are targeted to a given country or continent.

E-mail Spam - Unwanted, unsolicited email.

EPC - Earnings per hundred clicks.

Hits - Each time a Web server sends a file (text, image, or audio) to a browser. Since a single request can bring with it a number of individual files, the number of hits from a site does not reflect the number of visitors.

Holdback or Reserve Fee - A fee held back from a merchant's credit card transactions to cover any possible charge backs, and other disputed charges that a merchant may encounter. Usually, after a time, the hold backs are returned to the merchant.

Impressions (Ad Views) - Number of times an ad banner is downloaded and presumably seen by visitors.

Independent Sales Organization (ISO) - Organization that processes merchants online credit card transactions in exchange for a percentage of the sales or transaction fees.

Indirect Referrals - People referred to a program by your direct referrals.

Interstitials - An ad that appears between two site's pages.
Inventory - Space that a webmaster is making available on his/her site for advertising.

Media Kit - Information offered to potential advertisers by web site owners to help advertisers understand the publihsers rates, visitor demographics, terms, etc.

Merchant - Company that markets and sells goods or services online. Merchants establish affiliate programs to get consumers to purchase a product, register for a service, fill out a form, or visit a Web site.

Get paid online forum list

The best way to find the most useful information about how to make money online is to check the forum online.

getpaidforum
moneymakergroup
sitepoint
earnersforum
code4gold
digitalpoint
postingbrigade
earn-cash-make-money-online
webmaster-money
webmasters
gonemoneymaking

Any one knows other get paid forums, I'd like to add it.

Google's secrete: their positions and salaries

1 Software Engineer $108150.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-03-29

2 Product Marketing Associate (Market Researcher) $82000.00 Mountain View,

CA 2007-02-25

3 Software Engineer $135000.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-02-19

4 Advertising Communications Specialist $48067.00 Irvine, CA 2007-02-15

5 Research Engineer (Software) $132500.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-02-13

6 Software Engineer $106080.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-02-12

7 Software Engineer $100940.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-02-01

8 Software Engineer $108150.00 New York, NY 2007-02-01

9 Software Engineer $95000.00 New York, NY 2007-01-25

10 Software Engineer $95000.00 New York, NY 2007-01-25

11 Launch Coordinator Engineer $75000.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-01-25 

12 Software QA Engineer $79000.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-01-16

13 Software Engineer $100000.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-01-15

14 Software Engineer $105000.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-01-12

15 Software Engineer $119433.00 Mountain View, CA 2007-01-09

16 Software Engineer $102000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-30

17 Product Marketing Engineer $75000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-28

18 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-24

19 Software Engineer $104168.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-22

20 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-19

21 Financial Analyst $91000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-16

22 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-15

23 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-15

24 Software Engineer $90000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-15

25 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-12

26 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-12

27 Software Engineer $108150.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-07

28 Software Engineer $108150.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-07

29 Software Engineer $117444.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-01

30 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-12-01

31 Software Engineer $78000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-30

32 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-23

33 Software Engineer $83850.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-23

34 Software Engineer $120508.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-20

35 Software Engineer $110000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-19

36 Software Engineer $85000.00 Santa Monica, CA 2006-11-18

37 Software Engineer $109725.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-18

38 Software Engineer $102000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-18

39 Software Engineer $78000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-17

40 Software Engineer $100000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-17

41 Software Engineer $90000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-15

42 Software Engineer $78000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-15

43 Localization Manager $72000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-14

44 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-12

45 Software Engineer $85000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-11

46 Software Engineer $102000.00 New York, NY 2006-11-09

47 Software QA Engineer $86900.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-04

48 Software Engineer $105000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-01

49 Software Engineer $119600.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-11-01

50 Software Engineer $82000.00 Mountain View, CA 2006-10-27

Intel quits One Laptop Per Child program

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

The fallout ends a long-simmering spat that began even before the Santa Clara-based chipmaker joined the OLPC board in July, agreeing to contribute money and technical expertise. It also comes only a few days before the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where a prototype of an OLPC-designed laptop using an Intel chip was slated to debut.

Intel decided to quit the nonprofit project and the OLPC board because the two reached a "philosophical impasse," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said. Meanwhile, Intel will continue with its own inexpensive laptop design called the Classmate, which it is marketing in some of the same emerging markets OLPC has targeted.

Both sides shared the objective of providing children around the world with the use of new technology, "but OLPC had asked Intel to end our support for non-OLPC platforms, including the Classmate PC, and to focus on the OLPC platform exclusively," Mulloy said. "At the end of the day, we decided we couldn't accommodate that request."

A spokesman for OLPC did not immediately return a request for comment.

The One Laptop program was founded in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte, former Media Lab director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The original concept was to offer a "$100 laptop," but the green-and-white low-power "XO" computer now costs $188. It runs on a Linux operating system and a chip made by Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Negroponte told The Associated Press last fall that until OLPC had a machine using an Intel chip, he could understand why Intel wouldn't want to push an AMD machine to customers.

Mulloy said the use of AMD chips in the OLPC machines had nothing to do with Intel's decision to withdraw.

Intel believed all along that there is a need for multiple alternatives to meet the needs of children in poor countries, he said.

"It's unfortunate this happened, but at some point, you have to make a tough decision," he said.

Wikia Search Goes Online Next Week

Wikia co-founder and chairman Jimmy Wales announced the public will get its first view of Wikia Search, an open source, community-driven search engine, on January 7. Wales admits his company's search engine is not an immediate challenger to Google or Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO), but hopes the community construction of the search engine will bring increased transparency to the method by which search results appear.

On Monday, search enthusiasts can start building Wikia Search by filtering and ranking search results using open-source software and community-based editorial influence that will result in a more transparent process that allows end-users to see how search results are obtained. Wales says he hopes to have an index of between 50 to 100 million Websites when the search engine launches. "This is the public launch of a full-scale, high quality search engine," he says. "We're looking at every point in the process to see where we can push the editorial control out into the community."

Wales is aware of the reports eager to position this as another Google (NSDQ:GOOG) vs. Wikipedia-style battle, and he acknowledges Wikia Search is launching to "change how the industry works" while admitting his company is taking a different approach. "All of the software we're creating is going to be open-source," he says. "One of the things that's really important to us is it's essentially a political point."

Wales says pretending search results come from "some magic algorithm" doesn't help the concept of democracy or transparency, which goes against the characteristics the Web embodies. "All of these things are parts of the puzzle, but it's all going to be released under free license," he says. "The amount of human editorial influence will be much higher than anything we've seen before."

Despite the likelihood Google and Yahoo will continue their dominance in the search engine market, Eric Raymond, President Emeritus and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, says Wikia's initiative is an inherently positive foray. "More open-source competition is always good; even when it doesn't achieve huge market- or mind-share, it keeps incumbents healthily scared," he says. "I'm glad Wikia is happening, if only because somebody needs to keep Google nervous."