Best and Worst Browsers - Choice of the InternetJanuary 18th, 2006 Search best browser on Google and Mozilla Firefox is returned as the first result. If you are into I'm Feeling Lucky search then it will directly take you to Firefox home page.
Google Down!January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.
French Google Earth Rival Dies in a DayJune 26th, 2006 Google Earth rival Geoportail dies in one day. It's got to be a guiness record.
Battle Royale: Microsoft vs Google War on Office Web Application IntensifiesNovember 18th, 2008 The war of the technology giants (Microsoft and Google) have now reached office too. No, I am not talking about Mountain view or Redmond literally.
Cordys enables business process automation for Google AppsMay 8th, 2009 PUTTEN - Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, has joined the Google Enterprise PartnerT program and is delivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google AppsT suite of communication and collaboration tools. Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps supports organizations of any size using Google Apps as part of their core business processes and projects.
SiteMap of GoogleJune 11th, 2005 I found something interesting: Google's SiteMap. This provides a handy reference to Google Tools which are increasing by the day.
Forecaster says worst is over in US ad revenue trend, but growth won't be seen until 2011July 13th, 2009 Forecaster says worst is over for US advertisingAn advertising forecaster said Monday that the worst is over for the U.S. ad slump but that across-the-board revenue growth won't resume until well into 2011.
Clean Room Implementation of Google Page Rank AlgorithmAugust 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) {
// start off with a random low PR
int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3);
if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) {
pageRank++;
} else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) {
pageRank--;
}
// Support valid pages
if (isValidPage(url) ) {
pageRank += 1;
}
tag_value['b'] = 1;
tag_value['h2'] = 2;
tag_value['h1'] = 3;
tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux!
pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank);
// Sergey said good news sites have
// lots of nested tables
tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table');
if (tablesOnPage >= 50) {
pageRank += 2;
}
if (pageRank >= 5) {
pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords
}
if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) {
// I link to "clean" sites only
// ? Matt, Feb 2006
pagerank += 2;
}
pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000;
blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt');
blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt');
if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) {
pageRank = 0;
}
d = dashesInUrl(url);
pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1;
if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) {
// added on request.
Google Pages Introduced and WithdrawnFebruary 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.
Google Loses Over 16 Billion in 1 DayJuly 20th, 2008 Just after announcing its quarterly results Google lost over 16 billion dollar on Friday. The last trade was at 481.32, down from its previous day high of 534.75.
Future Google ProductsJune 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are:
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Google.Com Banned in China?August 21st, 2006 A Chinese blogger finds Google.com inaccessible around 60% of the time whereas Google.cn is perfectly accessible. Is it coincidence or intetnional?
Is Google intentionally blocking Google.com in China and providing intermittent access instead of outright banning to prevent backlash from internet community & activists.
In Defence of Google Web SearchJuly 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.
Google Venturing In Blogging? ... Hiring Bloggers?September 20th, 2006 I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves.
Google Adsense Finally Increases Competitive Link Filter Limit to 500!April 8th, 2009 On a rather unceremonious way, Google has increased the Competitive link Filter for Google Adsense to 500. They haven't gone official about it as yet.
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