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Monday April 14, 2008

AOL Launches Taiwan Portal

AOL has launched its second portal aimed at Chinese speakers, this time in Taiwan. As AOL works toward a bid to increase its number of international portals to 30 by the end of 2008, the Taiwan portal, brings to 18 the number of international portals AOL has launched. Previous attempts to launch a portal aimed at China have failed to transpire. AOL’s new Taiwan portal offers local news, entertainment and finance information, free e-mail and instant messaging, and Chinese-language search and video search via Truveo.com, with new content and features expected in the coming months.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144503/aol_launches_taiwan_portal.html

Google Reaches For Deep Web Data With HTML Forms Crawling

Google has announced updates to indexing certain Web pages using technology that crawls HTML forms like drop down boxes and select menus, making more information available to users who search on Google. Access to larger volumes of data on HTML forms is known as the Deep Web, Hidden web, or Invisible Web -- content that has so far been invisible to search engine users. This experiment is part of Google's broader effort to increase its coverage of the web. The Googlebot crawl agent will continue to adhere to robots.txt, nofollow, and noindex directives, according to Google.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/11/Google-aims-to-penetrate-Deep-Web-with-HTML-forms-crawling_1.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/solved-another-common-site-review-problem/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3625084.htm

Opera Prepares Its Mini Mobile Browser For Google's Android

Opera has created an Opera mini mobile browser that will run on Google’s Android open mobile development platform. Google and Opera both strive to provide desktop like Web browsing from a mobile phone with their Mini and Android offerings. All of the browser makers, mobile operating system makers and mobile apps developers hope to hook others into using their products because of the potential exposure to what could be more than 500 million mobile phone users in the world. The Opera-Android pairing is just the latest in what will likely be a lot of wireless combinations.

http://labs.opera.com/news/2008/04/10/
Reuters Story

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 9:43 pm (utc) on April 14, 2008]