Archive: Google

And... there was also a caffeine update.  Well, mid October there was an update to Panda - somewhere in there was a Vince update and then caffeine saw an update in early November.  Did you notice a…

Last week, Google was doing a different Doodle each day in honor of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. A couple days I missed their logo since I usually just search directly from my browser. Since I d…

Interesting - it looks as though Google may be limiting the number of results in their hottrends search page to just 40 now from the 100 that they used to. I'm not very surprised really.... in the la…

The internet is an amazing place you can learn about most anything from carbon nanotubes stopping bullets to a duvet cover. In the last few weeks I've learned a few things over at Google's hot trends…

I see a google hot trend right now is searches for AntivirusOnlineScan 6 and many of the results seem to be incoherent sites talking about antivirusonlinescan v8. It makes me wonder if we're seeing t…

Yes, Gmail was down today, September 1, 2009 for a stretch this afternoon. Really it wasn't more than about two hours at the most from what I saw and from what I hear IMAP/SMTP access was working alt…

Last Thursday I opened up my GMail and found to my surprise that I had an invite to Google Voice. I didn't have time to deal with it at that time, so I saved it as new until Thursday evening and spen…

I guess by now you've noticed that I'm not keeping up with the 1 post a week rate that I had for a while there. I've been thinking that at this point I'm going to be getting in one a month or so. Mor…

I just logged into my analytics account over at google and had a strange new view. It showed all the sites in my account with a summary of the code working, traffic up or down and percentage. It look…

For a while with Google's webmaster tools they've reported to you which url's they get 404 errors when spidering your site. Now with the sitemaps and webmaster tools utility they'll show you where th…

Google Search Insights - a great tool from google that can give you detailed information on what people in different areas are searching for. Find out what the popular search terms are, where they ar…

Has Google gone too far with the purchase of GrandCentral? "One number that rings all your phones" (and in the darkness binds them?) There are already great privacy concerns with google. This new acq…

I use Google Calendar for most everything I do. Since I have a number of different jobs I have a tendency to break things down into individual calendars. So I have my personal calendar events, my com…

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 a…

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 …

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 a…

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 a…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 succes…

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 an…

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…

I remember several years back I tried out gocr which is an open source character recognition engine. I wasn't thoroughly impressed, but it sort of worked. Yesterday, I saw the news that Google has re…

It's certainly a brief story, but to the point.... Google will allow pdf downloads of the books in their book search that are already out of copyright. Of course, copyright law is a strange and pecul…

There are a couple of stories on the "Google front" today. First up Coupons tied into Google location searching (maps.) More details at the Adwords blog. (BTW, this is open to US businesses, an Adwor…

Some time back, there was a Risk clone using Google maps which was interesting, but taken offline due to a legal letter. Well, I have had a long interest in strategy games.... (Risk/Axis&Allies and v…

Some time back I complained about the Google indexing of the site after the Big Daddy upgrade. For a good while before Big Daddy, there was usually about a week delay between me posting and there bei…

SunbeltBlog is talking about a new sign that Google is stepping up to try to protect users against potentially malicious sites. They have a screenshot, which I was able to verify, that gives a warnin…

Boy, that would bring in comments.... Googling Google highlighted some behaviour of the Google toolbar that seems a bit fishy. It appears that it blocks attempts to modify the default search provider…

Well after a bit of a roundup of some of the security news items the last week, it's time to sum up the Google front.... Googling Google tells us that Infinite storage is on the horizon.... they cite…

The metasploit project is now hosting a malware search that uses Google. It essentially uses a binary google search technique that was referenced last week to find malicious files hosted on the web. …

I've seen a couple places referring to some improvements in the way google maps handles zooming and so I decided to take a look in Firefox. The zoom handling of Google maps is the one thing that I've…

I saw this ZDNet post today with a tantalizing glimpse of Gdrive. It comes originally from cocaman.ch where he found a login page for something called Google Platypus, which is essentially a remotely…

Looks as though Google (as in... "I've spent the afternoon googling for information on ski vacations.") is now officially part of the English language according to the Oxford English dictionary. Of c…

Gbuy, Gcheckout, Google Payments etc.... the news has been circulating for months - Google will compete with Paypal. Well, Google Checkout has finally launched and is being covered by most every outl…

There are a few Google related stories of the last few days to catch up. 1)55 Ways to have fun with Google is an e-book available for purchase on Amazon or Lulu.com, but it's also avaiable as a free …

I thought it might be worth mentioning a few little bits of Google news. Much like the Linux and Windows search areas at google (linux search and windows search)... They've launched a Portal (?) givi…

One of the big linux news stories yesterday was the release of google earth for linux. Essentially the Google earth team has released "release 4" which is a beta version of the next release. It looks…

A while back there were rumors of Google Payments, a Paypal competitor on the way. Well, if this is right, it will be named GBuy and will be launched June 28th. Also, it sounds as though there may be…

For anybody that didn't notice, the World Cup has gotten underway in Germany. (For those that haven't heard - every 4 years there's a world football championship (here in the US we call it soccer).) …

Google has released a new plugin for firefox that synchronizes various settings from one pc to another making use of a google account. Essentially, it saves certain preferences from your browser to y…

If you haven't heard of this yet, I'm not quite sure how you've missed it since last night... There have been article, after article telling of Google's intention to release a limited trial of their …

This looks neat.... Noaa has started releasing kml files which are compatible of course, with Google Earth, to mesh the satellite imagery of Google earth with real-time weather information. It's cove…

After I did my "Kiosk" upgrade to KDE 3.5.2 I was really interested to see if Konqueror would finally work with Google Maps, of course, the problem isn't with Konqueror it's with the browser detectio…

Google has apparently won a pricey bidding war in the race to have their software bundled with new Dell PC's over the next 3 years. Essentially, I suspect this means, Google Desktop (perhaps Google P…

One of the big stories out today... Google has released an "early beta" version of Picasa for linux. I first saw the news from the ZDNet Googling Google blog. There are deb, rpm and bin downloads ava…

This is interesting.... there's been a lot of frustration among some (myself included) with the current state of Googles site indexing. For a good while I've been able to consistently find ANY post o…

So, I finally got down to about 5 tabs left in my firefox window and decided I could kill it off and restart it without really losing my place so I could get a good look at the Google Notebook plugin…

If you know me.... you know I have a HARD time putting down a problem that's unsolved. Even if it's a problem that really doesn't have a solution (in my control at least)... I have a tendency to look…

Late last night there were discoveries of the login page for Google Notebook, then came the Official Googleblog announcement of Google Notebook and of course news of the launch spread like wildfire (…

When Google Calendar first rolled out, I took a look and was not overwhelmed. Now, I've had a chance to revisit and see a few improvements. First, one of my initial problems was that I couldn't get t…

This weekend has been a bit of an introspective for me on why google is still the primary search engine I use. I know, I've been a big "fan(?)" of google for quite some time, I've obviously incorpora…

There are a couple news stories about a McAfee SiteAdvisor report about the search engines responsibility for sites that distribute malware. McAfee said Friday that the epidemic of spyware and viruse…

I've run across a couple of interesting things. The first was linked to from the second one I'll mention. I know, some time back, I visited a publicly available Google Adsense tool a few months back …

For a long time, the only way to play around with Google advertising possibilities was to join Adwords and then you could choose different keywords, see search volume information, estimate the ad pos…

It looks as though Google has made a bit of a splash with four product announcements today. Nothing being EXACTLY as forecast it is a bit interesting.... First there is Google Coop where it looks as …

It seems that today is Google Press day and speculation is rampant as to what will be unvelied. Google Health/ Google Purchases are among the leading speculations. In fact, Google Health has been a s…