Comments on: Ask getting more international http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/ neat fun stuff Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Michael Schneider http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-58989 Michael Schneider Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:28:02 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-58989 Hi Matt! It is my 1st post to your blog, thank you for all that information you have gathered here. My question is concerning IDN's I found a few idn domains that are indexed in google.com serp's but,to make a specific example there's 1 Greek idn showing on 1st page though this same site is not even indexed on google.gr There are more different language idn's with the same situation Can you please explain why this might happen? Is it possible google didnt get to updating its algo for its cc sites? Thanks in advance, Michael Hi Matt!
It is my 1st post to your blog, thank you for all that information you have gathered here.

My question is concerning IDN’s
I found a few idn domains that are indexed in google.com serp’s but,to make a specific example there’s 1 Greek idn showing on 1st page though this same site is not even indexed on google.gr

There are more different language idn’s with the same situation

Can you please explain why this might happen?
Is it possible google didnt get to updating its algo for its cc sites?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

]]> By: Ralf http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-18902 Ralf Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:01:39 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-18902 I think it is reasonable to add this to my post above about a search on my hometown. . A post at WMW and mentioned at seroundtable says “Has ASK Jeeves Updated its Index?” So, I checked again for my hometown. The results are really up to date and accurate now. Well done. I think it is reasonable to add this to my post above about a search on my hometown. .
A post at WMW and mentioned at seroundtable says “Has ASK Jeeves Updated its Index?”
So, I checked again for my hometown. The results are really up to date and accurate now. Well done.

]]> By: chandrika http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-13951 chandrika Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:03:26 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-13951 Dear Matt, In the webmaster quality guidelines it stated - * Avoid hidden text or hidden links. There are so many really nice js and css menu systems, that use the show/hide layer function and I wonder whether by including that code in a webpage for legitimate reasons, the site could be penalised. Someone has said to me that this guideline is only referring to things like same color text and bckgrd, but I want to be sure that using a show/hide layer menu system I am not deviating from the guidelines. Could you tell me please, does this guideline mean that menus using such a show/hide layer system, could be detrimental to a sites ranking in Google? Dear Matt,
In the webmaster quality guidelines it stated -

* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.

There are so many really nice js and css menu systems, that use the show/hide layer function and I wonder whether by including that code in a webpage for legitimate reasons, the site could be penalised. Someone has said to me that this guideline is only referring to things like same color text and bckgrd, but I want to be sure that using a show/hide layer menu system I am not deviating from the guidelines. Could you tell me please, does this guideline mean that menus using such a show/hide layer system, could be detrimental to a sites ranking in Google?

]]> By: Olney http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-12161 Olney Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:19:31 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-12161 Thanks Matt for making a post concerning the international market especially a post on a language like German which uses characters that are not in the normal Roman character sets. My personal expertise is in the Japanese market. I'd love to get a quote from you on the progress of Google & IDN domains. I've been doing research on my forums & we thought at first that IDN domains couldn't get Google pagerank but one of our members found a spanish website that was only accessible through the IDN domain that had pagerank. All of mine that I've put backlinks on & are the only domain for the sites do not get any PR at all. Anyway I also see that Google already displays IDN domains in it's native character set if you do the searches on the international Google site. Any idea why most newer IDN domains don't get PR. Most of the members on my forum have been through thousands & we only found one with PR... Anyway you guys are doing great... Thanks Matt for making a post concerning the international market especially a post on a language like German which uses characters that are not in the normal Roman character sets. My personal expertise is in the Japanese market.

I’d love to get a quote from you on the progress of Google & IDN domains. I’ve been doing research on my forums & we thought at first that IDN domains couldn’t get Google pagerank but one of our members found a spanish website that was only accessible through the IDN domain that had pagerank. All of mine that I’ve put backlinks on & are the only domain for the sites do not get any PR at all.

Anyway I also see that Google already displays IDN domains in it’s native character set if you do the searches on the international Google site.

Any idea why most newer IDN domains don’t get PR. Most of the members on my forum have been through thousands & we only found one with PR…

Anyway you guys are doing great…

]]> By: Joe Hunkins http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11819 Joe Hunkins Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:50:43 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11819 Thanks for that link Matt - a very thoughtful post by Andrew. I'm not as optimistic about the future of censorship in China but I'm also tired of hearing the shrill commentary implying that we've "perfected" free speech here in the USA. "All the free speech money can buy" is hardly a perfect model for a free and open democracy. Some suggest we already have a state run TV network and it's called "FOX NEWS". Luckily the internet is a far more powerful distributive mechanism than most reckon and information will flow past most of the roadblocks very quickly. I just hope all the good folks at Google are choosing to help break down the roadblocks rather than helping to set them up. Thanks for that link Matt - a very thoughtful post by Andrew.

I’m not as optimistic about the future of censorship in China but I’m also tired of hearing the shrill commentary implying that we’ve “perfected” free speech here in the USA. “All the free speech money can buy” is hardly a perfect model for a free and open democracy. Some suggest we already have a state run TV network and it’s called “FOX NEWS”.

Luckily the internet is a far more powerful distributive mechanism than most reckon and information will flow past most of the roadblocks very quickly.

I just hope all the good folks at Google are choosing to help break down the roadblocks rather than helping to set them up.

]]> By: Matt http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11741 Matt Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:15:41 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11741 Joe, I've been busy, but not on that. I'll leave that subject to Andrew's post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html Joe, I’ve been busy, but not on that. I’ll leave that subject to Andrew’s post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html

]]> By: JJózsef http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11734 JJózsef Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:54:27 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11734 And what about other Central European languages, like Hungarian? Let's see whether there is 1.)a translated interface, 2.) an option for searching only for pages written in Hungarian, 3.) a site under the .hu domain Google: yes, yes, yes MSN Search: yes, yes, no Yahoo! Search no, yes, no Ask Jeeves no, no, no So definitely Ask has a long way to go... :) And what about other Central European languages, like Hungarian? Let’s see whether there is
1.)a translated interface, 2.) an option for searching only for pages written in Hungarian, 3.) a site under the .hu domain

Google:
yes, yes, yes

MSN Search:
yes, yes, no

Yahoo! Search
no, yes, no

Ask Jeeves
no, no, no

So definitely Ask has a long way to go… :)

]]> By: Steve http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11730 Steve Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:54:25 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11730 Matt - started to notice that G is finding sites that have no links to them - is G starting to crawl sites directly from the registars? Matt - started to notice that G is finding sites that have no links to them - is G starting to crawl sites directly from the registars?

]]> By: Billy the Kid http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11729 Billy the Kid Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:21:18 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11729 Thanks for the encouragement. The Google optimism and altruism at is strong in this one. I'm working for Ask.com on the crawlers and back-end services. It's fun competing with the big guys will still being a little guy. We will likley stay little as long as G, Y and M keep hiring away all the fresh Ph.D's we make offers to. Like Yahoo, we are focused on becoming #1 in the U.S. search market, but are hopeful that the international markets, further away from the Google reality distortion, will bear more popularity and traffic. Thanks for the encouragement. The Google optimism and altruism at is strong in this one. I’m working for Ask.com on the crawlers and back-end services. It’s fun competing with the big guys will still being a little guy. We will likley stay little as long as G, Y and M keep hiring away all the fresh Ph.D’s we make offers to. Like Yahoo, we are focused on becoming #1 in the U.S. search market, but are hopeful that the international markets, further away from the Google reality distortion, will bear more popularity and traffic.

]]> By: Joe Hunkins http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ask-getting-more-international/#comment-11728 Joe Hunkins Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:03:09 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11728 Matt - please just don't tell us that your failure to post means you are working on the Google.cn *political* version of safesearch. Matt - please just don’t tell us that your failure to post means you are working on the Google.cn *political* version of safesearch.

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