Google Fast Flip: Latest News Reading Service From GoogleSeptember 15th, 2009 The latest innovation to the hit the web from Google is the Google Fast Flip, which is a 'news reading service'. Fast Flip is quite an innovative application from Google as it promises to revolutionize the way people read news online.
Google News Goes Local; How To ChangeApril 17th, 2006 Google News apparently has decided to serve local news instead of its regular fare of U.S. centric news.
Site Up Time Stats QuestionsJuly 31st, 2007 I have started monitoring my site for uptime statistics at 5 minute interval. Uptime is defined as when the response time for http://blog.taragana.com is 30 seconds or less.
Fake Google Toolbar Installs Trojan BackdoorJuly 24th, 2006 Scammers have set up an exact copy of the download page for Google’s Toolbar plug-in in an attempt to lure users to download Trojan backdoor (W32.Ranky.FW), Surfcontrol reports. Some versions of the scam even spoof the correct Google Toolbar web address for Internet Explorer, using Google’s own redirection service in an attempt to hide the real, non-Google address.
How To Embed Google Video With Specific Start Point & AutoPlayAugust 2nd, 2006 If you want to share a specific part of a video on your blog or website, these directions should be helpful. 1. Get the embed code (Click on the 'Embed - Blog - Post to MySpace' button, and then click the 'Embed HTML' link):
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Firefox: How To Increase Default Javascript Execution TimeJuly 15th, 2007 Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing experience and c) the strangely worded warning where Cancel is what allows you to continue responds very sluggishly and looks like hanging even on my Core 2 Duo machine.
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.
Google Personalized Advertisement Based on TV ShowsJune 19th, 2006 Google has designed and tested a system which listens to the show you are watching to deliver personalized information or advertisement. The "mass personalization" system can identify a programme from as little as five seconds of sound.
Google Signs 900 Million Dollar Deal With MySpaceAugust 8th, 2006 Google has reached a deal with the owner of MySpace.com (News Corp.) to pay at least $900-million in shared advertising revenue and become the exclusive search provider for the popular online hangout. The deal, which marries the Internet's leading search engine with the top social-networking site, means News Corp.
Should United Sue Google for Loss of 300 Million Dollars & Reputation?September 11th, 2008 You all know now that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the story as today's news.
Prepare for Google Music Store (GMusic?)May 24th, 2006 Rumors are rife about Google's venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple's highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime.
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.
Enhanced Blog Headlines...September 23rd, 2008 As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are:
Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline
Hot Topics - Most popular news in the last 24 hours (from Google Analytics via free Gadging service)
Most Voted - Most popular news ever based on your votes
Most discussed - Most commented news in last 30 days
Would you like more such tabs? What should they be?
Do you find them informative? Would you like any changes?
Google Ventures in Online Video Ads for AdSenseMay 23rd, 2006 Google Inc. will begin distributing online video ads later this week, diversifying beyond the static text ad messages that generate most of its profits today. Video ads, announced late Monday, will affect thousands of Web sites that rely on Google AdSense to post contextual ads on a web page.
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.