Final Tag | 2008 May

ebay partner network.

By Pranav Chavda ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅

Ebay links via CJ will expire on the 31st of this month. If you haven’t moved your links to the ebay partner network, you’ve got seven days.

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Amazon launches new mp3 preview widget

By Pranav Chavda ⋅ May 15, 2008 ⋅

Amazon.com recently introduced a cool way to promote it’s DRM free iTunes competitor, the MP3 clips widget. Bloggers who are amazon associates can now post 30 second previews of music they are talking about (or best sellers on the amazon mp3 store or all music from a genre or songs they recently purchased). This adds to amazon’s already extensive suite of widget type ads offered to associates.

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landing page load times now tracked and ranked.

By Pranav Chavda ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅

Google is now offering landing page load time evaluations for adwords. Nice. Post on the inside adwords blog says load times will be part of quality score starting mid june. hmm, I was under the impression load times were already being calculated.

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To Google: Tamil, etc aren’t “Indic languages”

By Pranav Chavda ⋅ May 7, 2008 ⋅

My apologies for the off-topic post, however, since the official google blog hasn’t a commenting feature, posting this here so that I can leave a trackback. Google announced a couple days ago the launch of what they call “Indic” language support - with transliteration facilities for english to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil.

In response to google’s post titled Building the Indic Web : The latter three languages are actually Dravidian languages, you can’t term them Indic! “Indic” refers to Indian languages of the Indo-European/Indo-Aryan family - The ones that use the Dev Nagri script or it’s derivatives. South Indian languages are a completely different family of languages. The term “Indic” refers to Sanskrit and it’s Prakrits, such as Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi (Funny how all prakrits end with an “i” as the last letter of the name of the language). This, obviously, does not include the four south-Indian languages - i.e Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam and Telugu. The only place to the south of India to use an Indic Language is Sri-Lanka with it’s non-tamil population speaking sinhalese which is very similar to Dev-Nagri.

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