Archive for the 'Google' Category
Monday, April 21st, 2008
In the last couple months I’ve been “farming out” several domains from the averyjparker.com site. I previously hosted my South Carolina Genealogy, North Carolina Genealogy and Online Radio TV sites all in the same virtual server as averyjparker.com. Well, I’ve noticed some strange behavior from Google Reader as a result…. read on.
Popularity: 94% [...]
Popularity: 94% [?]
Posted in General Site Info, General Web/Tech, Google | No Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
In reading over at the Gmail Blog, I came across this suggestion to try with Gmail. The idea is, let’s say your address is johndoe@gmail.com Okay, next time you sign up for a mailing list, or need a free website login, use johndoe+freelogin@gmail.com or johndoe+spam@gmail.com or any other unique identifier (something you’ll be [...]
Popularity: 100% [?]
Posted in Google, Spam | No Comments »
Monday, February 12th, 2007
There is a nice collection of tools at www.iwebtool.com, specifically at http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/. It’s more than just how google sees your site, there are tools that show how your page ranks at alexa, etc.
http://www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank for instance is the Visual Pagerank tool and http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction is the google pagerank prediction tool.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted in Computers, General Web/Tech, Google | No Comments »
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Is it just me or does it seem like about half of google sign in pages are out of order. (GMail seems ok) Adwords, Analytics, and Adsense all refuse to bring up the login box. (Main page for adwords and analytics loads, but the iframe that houses the login doesn’t.) It’s [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Posted in Google, Google Adsense | No Comments »
Friday, October 27th, 2006
This is a fairly significant “state of this site” type post and well… if you’re a usual visitor you might want to read/skim this one. It’s been about 15 months or so since the last big redesign of this site and as some long time lurkers may know, the updates were FEW and far [...]
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted in General Site Info, Google, Google Adsense | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Several blog posts have heralded the arrival of Google’s newest toy, a custom search engine setup… sort of Through Google Coop you can design a search engine that only covers the sites you want it to cover (or favor, it can search the web and just be biased towards the sites you prefer.) Of [...]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted in Computers, Google | No Comments »
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
I just re-visited sitemaps last night to take a look at some of the new tools they’ve rolled out. Google announced that they were adding a few features in the last couple days. Crawl statistics (and control over slow/normal/fast crawl speed) is one of the additions, also it’s possible to tag images for [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Posted in Computers, Google, Web Hosting | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Bye bye Writely - hello Google Docs and Spreadsheets Inside Google has been reporting on the (happening right now) launch of docs.google.com which should be a shared login for both the writely successor and spreadsheets which is now known as Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It appears to support IE 6 and Firefox.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Popularity: 2% [?]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
It was an odd message that started this on the official google blog. I saw it and thought this doesn’t make sense - it doesn’t sound like an official statement and it claims it was translated from another language???? Posted by “Maximal” here is the original Google Blog post…
After concientiously considering, Google has [...]
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Posted in Google, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Wow, this is nice - and frankly, something I could probably spend hours with. Search Engine Watch tells us that Google will debut a searchable news archive that takes us back through around 200 years worth of news stories. Yes, folks, google is putting the last 200 years of history online. I [...]
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted in Computers, Genealogy, Google, Hobbies | No Comments »