How to Make your own annotated multimedia Google map

June 24th, 2006 Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a "significant amount" to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads.

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.

August 2nd, 2006 Google Analytics increased the number of default profiles from 5 to 10. This increases the number of websites you can track.

July 28th, 2005 I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun.

April 19th, 2006 Google added a new product to their referrals feature - Google AdWords. You will earn $20 when an advertiser you refer spends at least $100 within 90 days of signing up.

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 1st, 2008 Steve Ballmer will talk about it, Google will say how anticipation is creeping in and Good OS has finally launched it with minimum of fuss. I am talking about their release of a cloud-based version of the OS, simply named Cloud! Cloud runs a hybrid browser/linux kernel, offering quick startups and minimal lag.

January 22nd, 2007 I am using Google Calendar, as an experiment, for my projects. I noticed 5 things, between unprintable curses, which make it seriously dysfunctional as an usable product.

May 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

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

November 3rd, 2006 Google is asking for participants for their user studies. They will pay handsomely - 75 $ / hour.

January 22nd, 2009 Google has a very useful feature i.e. Google docs as it lets you have your own bit of storage in the internet so that you can save your documents in your account.

December 8th, 2005 InfoWorld published results of a survey which found Google search users were more net savvy and more likely (statistically significant) to have household income above 60, 000 USD, in comparison with competing search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc.. Unfortunately some of us tend to misinterpret results of such survey and infer erroneous causal relationships like - A way to get rich would be to use Google Search or MSN Search users are dumb (wouldn't you love to make that inference?).

May 15th, 2006 We are doing extensive work with WordPress, developing plugins, themes and also modifying the code base where necessary. In the process I found it necessary to create a online cross-reference of WordPress source along with capability to annotate / comment (AJAX based) as necessary.

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.