Archive for July, 2008
Cuil below expectations
Cuil is a new search engine just launched to the public with a claimed index of 120 billion pages. Google on the other hand says they have 1 trillion urls, not all of them are indexes because some are spam or duplicate contents. No specific number on the index size it self. Anyways, doing my [...]
How Does Google Knol Compares to Wikipedia?
Google Knol has just launched, as the Google version of Wikipedia, and online information sharing and editing site. Knol however is not 100% non-profit, writers could allow ads to be run on their site, and editors will be able to earn revenue from their knols (topics). This is a bit encouraging, and I could already [...]
Learn More About Google
Little bit of history, little feature overview, several useful hints to search Google more efficiently. I got this powepoint slide via email and thought of sharing it with view. Pretty useful.
New Gmail Protection Feature
This one is really awesome, thanks 3baid. Google is releasing a new security feature that will allow Gmail users to tell where their Gmail account is open, where latest activity is happening, and logout all other sessions if they want remotely. This is pretty useful when I forget my Gmail account open, go to work, [...]
The Unlocked Phone!
You probably came here with high hopes. However I tried to find a good explanation for this but couldn’t. I found it on the Amazon Best Deals page! It’s seller #83 in Cell Phones on Amazon.
Google & Yahoo Indexing Flash Sites!
There are probably several down sides to building a Flash site, out of which I can list those for now: 1- Download Size: Flash sites are normally larger, take longer time to load. 2- Invisible: Search engines can’t index Flash content, making it unsearchable and invisible, thus killing big amount of targeted traffic. 3- Permalinks: [...]
Google Adsense Referral being retired
“Hello, Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider: * Google Affiliate Network: As part [...]