Adam Lasnik, Google

Thursday, August 07, 2008 Google Now Optimizes Search for Smaller Sites with New Hosting API Google recently released a new set of webmaster tools which provide smaller sites the ability to optimize search and communicate with Google directly from the dashboard of a site's hosting company. Google has signed up several hosting companies which have started to integrate the tools. These include Go Daddy, IPOWER, StartLogic, PowWeb and Strato. A Google spokesperson tells Beet.TV that several other companies are expected to sign up. Adam Lasnik, Google's Search Evangelist, tells Beet.TV in this interview that these new tools provide smaller Websites with the tools which had been previously the domain of big sites. This is the first of three interviews we will publish with Adam. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer http://www.beet.tv/2008/08/google-now-opti.html