Pandia gives you some of the best search engine oriented articles and stories from last week. We also take a look at how to combine Ajax with search engine friendly design.

Michael Wyszomierski and Greg Grothaus of Google has an interesting article on the use of Ajax (dynamic web page coding) and search engine friendliness this week (A spider’s view of Web 2.0).

They say that although Google is getting better at interpreting javascript code, looking for links, your best bet for creating a site that’s crawl-able by Google and other search engines is to provide HTML links to your content.

They recommend the following design process:

“If you’re starting from scratch, one good approach is to build your site’s structure and navigation using only HTML. Then, once you have the site’s pages, links, and content in place, you can spice up the appearance and interface with Ajax. Googlebot will be happy looking at the HTML, while users with modern browsers can enjoy your Ajax bonuses.”

They also give examples of link coding that combines regular web links with javascript code.

Pandia this week

Google is introducing sorted search results
Top 5 social web sites for book lovers
The Google Android Alliance
Top 10 sites for researching music

Search engine headlines from the rest of the web

Windows Live wants to build Flickr competitor
A program manager position description clearly outlines Microsoft’s strategy to build a photo and video sharing website. (I Started Something Nov 10 2007)

Current and Future Search Trends: What the Top Internet Search Engines Are Doing
On Universal Search, personalization and more (SE Guide Nov 9 2007)

Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location
If you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google may penalize you for hosting too many related sites (SE Journal Nov 8 2007)

When Link Bait Goes Wrong : How to Prepare for a Good Linking
Too much traffic on a cheap web host account may get your site booted off your server (SE Journal Nov 9 2007)

On The Link Between Search and Branding
In a world dominated by conversational media, how does one truly integrate demand creation (branding) with demand fulfillment (search)? (Battelle Nov 9 2007)

So who’s doing all this searching anyway?
The top 1% of searchers performs a full 13% of all searches in a given month. (Compete Nov 7 2007)

Fetch - Search Engine Guide's New Social News Site
You can Digg, you can Propel, you can Sphinn and now, you can Fetch! (Search Marketing Gurus Nov 6 2007)

Google Tweaks AdWords Site Targeting
Google's advertising clients can place their ads on subsections of sites, or even specific pages (Webpronews Nov 8 2007)

People Search Engine Wink Rocks!
Alternative People Search engine Wink releases advanced profile controls (AltSearchEngines Nov 8 2007)

Google Earth Gets Weather Layer
A new version of Google Earth. (Googlified Nov 9 2007)

Yahoo chief apologizes to Chinese dissidents' relatives
Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony at a U.S. congressional hearing (IH Tribune Nov 7 2007)

New Online Dictionary, LingoZ
New dictionary site in 8 languages including English, German, French, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish. (ResearchBuzz Nov 10 2007)

Yahoo! Developer Network Theater Launched
YDN Theater, a Yahoo! blog that collects all the videos they are filming for the Yahoo! Developer Network (Zawodny via ResearchBuzz Nov 6 2007)

Google 'hugely dangerous' and coming after local press
…according to the editor-in-chief of Times Online. (Press Gazette Nov 6 2007 via Sphinn)

AOL To Purchase Contextual Ad Company Quigo, For $300 Million
Quigo has AdSonar, which is similar to AdSense in terms of providing targeted placements on websites and through searches (Unofficial SEO Nov 5 2007)