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Sitemaps generators (free)

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:45:38 -0500

Google, Yahoo, Live Search as well as other search engines agreed in 2006 to adhere to the same sitemap protocol, which made things simpler for webmasters. Basically you add a link to a sitemap.xml file in the robots.txt file (a simple line like Sitemap: <sitemap1_location>) and the search engines will download your sitemap and crawl (some of) the links mentioned in there. This is a better...

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Freeware programs that increase your productivity

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:17:43 -0500

I do a thorough selection of programs I install (especially if they're free) mainly because you have to have a balance between the number of installed programs and your computers' resources. Every program consumes memory, cpu and this reflects in the performance of your overall system. I have a list of (mainly) free programs that I use and make me more productive, and thought it would be nice to...

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Google, what happened to "Do No Evil"?

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:53:29 -0500

Anonymous is a group of people best known for their organized protests against the Church of Scientology. They also made an objective from exposing facts about Scientology, one such website created by them being Enturbulation. Until recently they posted ads via the Google Adsense network on Enturbulation, but their Adsense account was suspended. Reason given: While going through our...

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When Google's Hot Trends are really hot

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:43:00 -0500

There really must have been a surge in traffic for this particular keyword that made Hot Trends slip, as Google does its best job in keeping "unethical" searches off its suggested search terms, related searches, or in this case the Hot Trends. If it wouldn't do this we all know what would be the hottest searched keyword on Google (starts with "s" and ends with "ex").

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Live Search gains in simplicity over Google Search

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:39:16 -0500

The Live Search design team has been playing around with a new interface for both the main Live Search page and the Live Search results page, and I must say that they're not doing a bad job. While Google always primed over MSN (now Live) and Yahoo in terms of a simple interface, I must say that Live Search is better - at least from this point of view. See below a comparison between the main...

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Google News offers related news searches

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:37:07 -0500

When searching for a keyword in Google News you'll see (if you scroll all the way down) a list of related news searches. This is a new feature that will suggest other search terms based on some automated algorithms, making sometimes connections between specific stories. Example, searching for guns will show the following related searches: This related news searches feature also shows connections...

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Yahoo Search adds SearchScan, a malware filter

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:49:29 -0500

Yahoo launched a beta service called SearchScan that will warn you when pages shown in the search results contain viruses, spyware or send unsolicited emails. SearchScan basically uses the reports from McAfee's SiteAdvisor, a service that gives you information about particular websites: if they contain spyware, adware, malware or other threats, if they send unsolicited emails, or if they link to...

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How Microsoft punished Yahoo

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:49:01 -0500

Microsoft officially announced (May 3, 2008) that it withdraws the proposal to purchase Yahoo. Because trading opened just Monday (announcement was made on Saturday) Yahoo feels now the wrath of its investors as the share price dropped by 22% in premarket. Even if it recovered a little it still currently faces a 15% drop compared to its share price on Friday, analysts expecting to see a 50% drop...

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YouTube simplifies the video player

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:04:00 -0500

All YouTube videos now have a "Try the New YouTube Player Beta!" link that lets you see how the future YouTube video player will look like. Old Player New Player The main change targeted the lower toolbar. It is now smoother and offers only the option to switch to full screen, unlike the old player that also had a button to reduce the size of the video. The new player shows the vertical sound...

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iPhone-mania reaches Google

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:38:56 -0500

Google announced several updates these days for iPhone users (oh, and iPod Touch), and if you're thinking why the answer is simple: next search engine battle field. Google, Yahoo and Live Search all offer services for mobile devices, because they all know that the next market with a huge increase is going to be the mobile search market (if not already huge). So it makes sense to expand as much as...

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"How to grow weed" - Googlers' top 8 questions

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:38:07 -0500

Google Suggest will offer search suggestions as you type letters into the search box, and while this is a good tool when you're trying to remember something (e.g. the name of a movie) it does make it fun sometimes. The above results are shown when searching for How to, and they are ranked based on their popularity, as Google suggest: "... uses data about the overall popularity of various...

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Blogger statistics now in beta

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:49:50 -0500

Blogger tests a new Stats tab, that lets bloggers integrate Google Analytics statistics directly into the Blogger interface. This is great news for Blogger users since you won't need to open a new page and check the web analytics separatelly. In 2006 when I heard that Google bought Measure Map, a company that provided blog statistics, I subscribed to be announced when they will be giving away...

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Street View mashups, a month later

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:06:32 -0500

Street View is the Google Maps extension that lets you view the streets for particular cities in the US just as you would be driving through them. On March 27th 2008 they released the Street View API which basically gives web developers the needed tools to create web applications that interact with Google's Street View service. Almost a month later, there are a dozen of Street View mashups...

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Microsoft Live Search adds Sitelinks too

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:16:13 -0500

Google had the Sitelinks added since 2006, and 2 years later these are added into Microsoft Live Search too. Sitelinks (Microsoft calls them Deep links) are shortcuts to pages within a specific website that show below that website's listing. They are meant to help you navigate the website by providing links to popular destinations from that website. If Microsoft Live Search deeplinks works like...

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How iGoogle evolves - Developers sandbox

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:41:20 -0500

Google launched a "playground" for iGoogle gadgets developers. Called "developers sandbox" this is basically a design view that iGoogle gadget developers can use to put more functionality into their gadgets. This sandbox view is basically the future of the iGoogle look and feel for the end user. The developers sandbox includes support for OpenSocial, an API to help developers build social...

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GoogleDNA, a new service that indexes DNA?

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:08:21 -0500

A recent BusinessWeek article talks about the investments Google started making into genetic screening. The facts: In 2007 Google invested $4.4 million (BusinessWeek.com, 11/29/07) in a genetic screening company called 23andMe. The company was started by Anne Wojcicki (wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin), and her business partner. 23andMe, for a price of $1000 will "help you read and...

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Earth Day 2008, will you do something about it?

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:39:37 -0500

On April 22nd millions of people will celebrate Earth Day, a special day when you should do something to show your support for fighting climate change. While there's no need to wait for a particular day to do something good for the environment (hence for The Earth), Earth Day has as a purpose promoting such environmental-friendly behaviors and remind people that we shouldn't live on Earth just...

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How to report a Google Adsense violation

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:01:18 -0500

I've seen on a website a Google Adsense ad that was masked by a tricky image letting you think you were going to play a video - I could tell it was an Adsense ad because when I hovered over it I could see the URL it was going to open (starting with pagead2.googlesyndication.com). When you encounter such a website that you consider contains offensive ads, or that is in some way trying to trick you...

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Whois search using Google is back

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:37:46 -0500

Google can show you some basic WHOIS information for a domain if you search using the following format whois domain.com. As an example, you can see the whois information for google.com by performing the following search: whois google.com. If you click on the title for this you'll be redirected to a domaintools page where you can see more details about the domain. This feature is not something...

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Live Search News gets updated

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:37:16 -0500

See, Microsoft's Live Search team is (somehow) productive too. They recently announced several improvements for the Live News Search service (or Live Search News?). What I like in this update: Playing multimedia without leaving the news search results page. On the news results page they incorporate images and videos with "smart-motion thumbnails". What's nice about this is that you can watch the...

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Googlers are productive

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:43:09 -0500

Recent Google software and services updates: Google Video gets a facelift. Now offering three ways to view video search-results (list, grid and TV view), showing a timeline view that lets you see what was popular in the past (most blogged, most shared) and they updated the homepage of Google Video too. Though one thing I would have expected is to give up the frame usage for viewing a video - I...

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Use Google Analytics in Google Adwords Editor

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:53:27 -0500

I'm using Google Adwords Editor to manage multiple Google Adwords account from my desktop, without going through the hassle of visiting the online page and logging in and off to verify each account. It's very useful because it allows: managing multiple Adwords accounts, making bulk changes to keywords/ads/ad groups, working offline and synchronizing changes when connected, copy/paste...

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"Obama said about Iraq" - find quotes with Google News

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:28:57 -0500

Google News recently introduced a feature that allows searching for quotes. Actually when you search the name of an important person (be it a politician like Barack Obama or a geek like Bill Gates) you'll see at the top of the news results a quote that this VIP used in a recent interview, for instance searching on Google News for Barack Obama will show a grey box at the top with his latest...

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Google Search insight from Udi Manber

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:34:27 -0500

Udi Manber is a VP of Engineering at Google. Started as a professor at the University of Arizona, after that he was senior VP at Amazon and before he started to work for Google he was Yahoo's chief scientist. Popular Mechanics asked him in an interview 20 questions regarding Google Web Search (how it works, future improvement plans), so if you want to know a little more about how search works and...

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Is YouTube planning photo sharing?

noreply@blogger.com (GoodLe) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:38:51 -0500

Maybe the title is a little speculative, but browsing around YouTube I've ended on what I think it is a database error that returned the following image: The above one is a screenshot in case they take it down, the original image right now is here: http://www.youtube.com/img/cache_error.jpg It seems to be a scheme of how their different services interact with each other and the way the...

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