Simone wrote in to report of an apparently removed blog post from the Google Webmaster Central blog:
http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2007/08/google-webmaster-tools-missing-posts.php
Did anyone else see traces of this? The Google Blogoscoped Google blog tracker didn't catch it (it runs every 5 minutes, caching even removed posts, but not if those are posted AND removed within the 5 minute span inbetween two indexing rounds). |
I have the "Register non-English domain names with Webmaster Tools" one in my reader but not showing on the blog right now. |
Its in my RSS reader as well. |
I got it too
it's the translation of an article recently published on an official Google blog in Chinese |
You should find two posts, as the screenshot shows you.
The second one is just the first one without a valid title but with one generated probably by Blogger platform. |
I got the one posted at 12:22am 2 days ago, didn't get any others.
I'd say Google probably planned to launch this and missed the deadline, and then realised they hadn't re-scheduled the blog-posing after it was posted. |
I read this in Google Reader too. It's still there although the link's dead now:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/08/register-non-english-domain-names-with.html |
http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Register non-English domain names with Webmaster Tools
Written by Trevor Foucher
I'm happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a way for site owners to have domains that go beyond the domain name system's limitations of English letters and numbers. Prior to IDNA, Internet host names could only be in the 26 letters of the English alphabet, the numbers 0-9, and the hyphen character. With IDNA support, you'll now be able to add your sites that use other character sets, and organize them easily on your Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
Let's say you wanted to add http://北京大学.cn/ (Peking University) to your Webmaster Tools account before we launched IDNA support. If you typed that in to the "Add Site" box, you'd get back an error message that looks like this:
Some webmasters discovered a workaround. Internally, IDNA converts nicely encoded http://北京大学.cn/ to a format called Punycode, which looks like http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/. This allowed them to diagnose and view information about their site, but it looked pretty ugly. Also, if they had more than one IDNA site, you can imagine it would be pretty hard to tell them apart.
Since we now support IDNA throughout Webmaster Tools, all you need to do is type in the name of your site, and we will add it correctly. Here is what it looks like if you attempt to add http://北京大学.cn/ to your account:
If you are one of the webmasters who discovered the workaround previously (i.e., you have had sites listed in your account that look like http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/), those sites will now automatically display correctly.
We'd love to hear your questions and feedback on this new feature; you can write a comment below or post in the Google Webmaster Tools section of our Webmaster Help Group. We'd also appreciate suggestions for other ways we can improve our international support.
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Google have reposted the post, with a screenshot from Webmaster Central this time:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/08/written-by-trevor-foucher-webmaster.html |
There was already the screenshots in the first publication, as long as I can remember. It was also published here: http://www.googlechinawebmaster.com/2007/08/blog-post_24.html |
Odd, Google Reader left blank spaces where the images are in the new post. |
That's because they looked like this:
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=cdqv5924_32c9vbf5f9 |
It's weird how it prompts you to login to see that image (presumably because it's a Google Apps link) yet you can view it via this link fine:
https://docs.google.com/File?id=cdqv5924_32c9vbf5f9 |
Yeah, those photos are from docs that are supposed to be private.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-documents-cant-be-deleted.html |
