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News archives for the week of Aug. 13, 2007

Aug. 16, 2007:
Google wants to make sure webmasters understand the new "unavailable_after META" tag
Google wants to make sure webmasters understand the new "unavailable_after META" tag announced on the Google Blog August 2. This allows for a more dynamic relationship between any website site and Googlebot. With the above example (www.site.com), any time a site has a temporarily available news story or limited offer sale or promotion page, site owners can now specify the exact date and time they want specific pages to stop being crawled and indexed in Google's database.

Aug. 14, 2007:
Yahoo beats out Google in overall user satisfaction on its properties
The problems that AOL is having are less about the site’s capabilities and more about customer service during the site’s transformation. Some industry observers think that once that is behind them, AOL will be ready to compete more effectively. One problem for the big media sites is that more readers appear happy to get their news from the likes of Yahoo and Google, which offer an aggregate of stories from multiple sources. It is worth noting that the “other” category for online news had a higher average satisfaction score than any of the major national sites.