Google Web Accelerator Back With Vengeance

May 9th, 2005 Discussion on the current coma of Google Web Accelerator...

February 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.

July 20th, 2006 I found a simple two step process to transparently circumvent any website access ban for non-password protected sites. 1. Install Google Web Accelerator.

May 11th, 2005 What would happen when a GWA user uses phpMyAdmin?

May 14th, 2005 Some people have started preaching/scolding the web developers for using HTTP GET in non-idempotent manner. In other words GET is often used to change the state of the system, when it shouldn't be.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.

May 11th, 2005 An attempt to demonstrate how such brain-dead schemes gets approved in a corporate setting looking to maximize shareholder values.

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.

November 8th, 2006 Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to "pre-internet era" if the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws are legislated. "Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," Google said Tuesday.

January 21st, 2008 Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy.

July 9th, 2007 It appears Google is heavily compensating for my increased traffic with significantly lower eCPM these days. It is about 60% of what it was a month or two back.

December 14th, 2004 Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous.

April 14th, 2008 For the last hour or so Google.com is down. Update: Everything is back to normal.

July 28th, 2008 Yahoo Pipes and Google Mashup Editor both allows you to create mashups with RSS feeds. The following is a brief comparative review.

June 11th, 2005 I found something interesting: Google's SiteMap. This provides a handy reference to Google Tools which are increasing by the day.