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Google Webmaster Tools has a slightly different look. The new look augments the new functionality Webmaster Tools added last month. The changes include a new look to the dashboard, redesigned menus and a style that more tightly integrates with other Google properties.

The Google Webmaster Tools home page lists all the sites you're authorized to manage in Webmaster Tools.

The large gray and white interface recently adopted by search, Gmail and other properties is very prevalent.

When viewing your list of sites, you can select a "Comfortable" or "Compact" view modes for controlling the how compact the lines appear on your screen. Google calls this the "Display Density" settings.

You also now have the ability to sort sites not only alphabetically, but also "By site health." Meaning, you can view the sites that have the most issues first. With all the recent concerns over link profiles and notes Google has left for Webmasters, this is a very helpful feature. It also might underscore the importance of the recent algorithm changes.

The dashboard is the first page you typically see when you click through to manage a site. The new Webmaster Tools dashboard looks more like a dashboard rather than a bunch of textual information. Crawl errors have been expanded to be more visually appealing, as have search queries and site map URLs.

Most prevalent is the top message center labeled "New and Important" so you can notice those nastigrams from the Webmaster Tools spam team when you get them.

Lastly, the left column menus have been redesigned to include groupings that are more meaningful. Each of the groups have tasks or reports that have more related functionality.

What are your thoughts on the new look and reports? Let us know in the comments below.

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Google Webmaster Tools Gets a Facelift

Google is continually updating its Webmaster Tools to bring the best features to users. This week brings some pretty major changes in the form of an updated navigation, new dashboard, and a compact view for the home page site-list.

The features that you know and love in Webmaster Tools have been regrouped which facilitated a change in the navigation structure. Some of the features have been renamed as well. The example provided is HTML Suggestions is now called HTML Improvements. All the features can now be found in one of four new groups:

Configuration: Things you configure and generally dont change very often. Health: Where you look to make sure things are OK. Traffic: Where you go to understand how your site is doing in Google search, whos linking to you; where you can explore the data about your site. Optimization: Where you can find ideas to enhance your site, which enables us to better understand and represent your site in Search and other services.

The dashboard has received a complete redesign. With the new design, youll find recent, important and prioritized messages regarding your site sitting at the very top now. Equally important, there is now a brief summary of your sites current status just below that. Three of the new feature navigations have widgets with Crawl Errors, Search Queries and Sitemaps representing Health, Traffic and Optimization. In what may be the best change, however, is that more messages and charts are now on the front page. With this, you can see how your site is doing without having to dive into the tools if you dont have the time to do a thorough check.

The final change is the addition of a compact layout. This allows you to see your sitelist without having to view the site-preview thumbnails. You have a choice between the two, but I personally like the compact view more. It also has the added benefit of loading faster since it doesnt have to stream in large images.

These new updates should make it easier to see site statistics at a glance. You can still dive in and get all the detailed information youve expected from Google Webmaster Tools, but now a lot more of it is on the front page. If thats not convenience, I dont know what is.

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Home politics Court adjourns verdict against Prachatai webmaster

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April 30, 2012 1:41 pm

The webmaster, Jiranuch Premchaiporn, was accused of violating Articles 14 and 15 for failing to prevent Internet users posting messages deemed as insulting to the monarchy on her website.

The court reasoned that the presiding judges needed to study a lot of documents.

Several foreign reporters turned up at the Criminal Court to hear the verdict and several friends also came to provide moral support to Jiranuch.

She said she was not worried because she produced all needed evidences to defend herself.

Public prosecutors alleged that Jiranuch as the webmaster intentionally supported or allowed some persons with malicious intent to post messages attacking the monarchy on her website between April 15 and May 3 2008.

Public prosecutors alleged that the violations took place at the Royal Thai Police head office, in Chatuchak district, Wang Mai district, Pathumwan district and around the country.

Jiranuch's lawyer, Saengchai Ratanaseriwong, said the defendant team tried to prove that the webmaster had no intention of supporting anyone to post messages to attack the monarchy.

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Court adjourns verdict against Prachatai webmaster

BANGKOK A Thai judge postponed a verdict that had been expected Monday for a webmaster accused of failing to act quickly enough to remove Internet posts deemed insulting to Thailand's royalty.

Judge Nittaya Yaemsri said more time was need to process documents in the case, which has drawn global criticism because many see it as an assault on freedom of speech. A new court date was set for May 30.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn widely known by her nickname, Jiew is facing up to 20 years in jail for 10 comments posted on her paper's now-defunct web board by readers she says she does not know.

She is being tried under Thailand's computer-crime laws, which were enacted in 2007 under an interim, unelected government that came to power after a coup a year earlier. The laws address hacking and other online offenses, but also bar the circulation of material deemed detrimental to national security, which includes defaming the monarchy.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said last week that the prosecution of Chiranuch "sends a chilling message to webmasters and Internet companies."

Prachatai was founded by several respected journalists, senators and press freedom activists to serve as an independent, nonprofit, daily Internet newspaper. It has attracted an audience of critics of the status quo, especially on the web board where the comments at issue in the court case were posted between April and November 2008.

Most of the comments were removed within one or two days, but one remained online for 20 days and another for 11.

Prosecutors say Chiranuch was guilty of "intentionally supporting or consenting" to post unlawful content by failing to delete the offending comments quickly enough. Her lawyers point out, among other arguments, that there are no guidelines on the matter.

Chiranuch is the first webmaster prosecuted under the law and her case could set a precedent for other media companies here.

The prosecution of Chiranuch has become a cause celebre. Last year she was one of three winners of the Courage in Journalism award given by the International Women's Media Foundation, and also one of 48 global writers given grants under a Human Rights Watch program for their commitment to free expression.

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Verdict delayed for Thai webmaster accused of not deleting anti-royal comments quickly enough

Google has announced that you can now see up to 90 days of historical data in your Webmaster Tools Search Queries reports instead of the previous 35 days. Additional changes have been made to the Webmaster tools interface

As Google explains:

In addition to the updates in historical data, now you can view search query data as soon as you verify ownership of a site. You can also data for the top 2,000 queries from which your site gets clicks.

If you see less than 2,000 it means that they haven't seen that many clicks or those clicks aren't getting tracked. It could also mean that your data is spread out among different countries. For example, a search query for flowers in Google Canada is counted separately from a query for flowers in the U.S. Nevertheless, with this change, 98 percent of sites on the web will have complete coverage.

Now the bad news, Google announced today that they are removing three key functions in the back end of Google Webmaster tools to give budget to newer innovations.

These three features will all be removed within the next two weeks.

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Google Webmaster Tools Adds 90 Days of Search Query Data, Drops 3 Features