Must Read: Google Robots.txt Parsing Weirdness

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.

June 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1.

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

November 14th, 2008 When tech giants like Google and Apple work on a collaborative project, the whole speculation around it goes hyper. We knew that Google was working on some Apple app.

June 18th, 2009 It seems today I am into two opposite motions for the same cause, Google. Just a while ago, we talked about how Google has become weary of Bing, but now, an interview of Sergey Brin to Jemima Kiss of Guardian is something that I should share with you coz it actually gives us a glimpse of how and why Google has gone that far and continues to move up the ladder despite the economic downturn.

June 19th, 2009 Search engine giant Google is all set to launch a new Google Labs project it calls Flipper. Keep your wild guess on racks, its not another search robot of course.

March 9th, 2006 Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. Read more in the Phil Law Blog..

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.

October 23rd, 2008 Google Android finally delivers what was promised at the very beginning. While everyone was speculating if Android is going to be an open source platform, they have come out with Android Open Source Project, which will give public at large the opportunity to make contributions.

January 7th, 2008 In response to Google AdSense teams resolutions for us here are 5 AdSense resolutions I have taken for 2008 wrt. AdSense: 1.

February 28th, 2005 Another feather in their search engine cap! Microsoft always claimed that it loves competition, looks like finally it got one. I wonder when Microsoft will go for purchasing Google...

January 30th, 2008 Most link extractors I know, including the function in WordPress to linkify comments, incorrectly assumes that any text containing http:// is a hyperlink including obvious mistakes like the following: I propose a new protocol starting with phttp://... What do you think? phttp is not http protocol and it should never be treated as a link.

April 15th, 2008 While looking for VOIP information I found an article which looked eerily familiar to another article I had recently read. A simple google search (remember that Google lists a small subset of total matches) with a big identifying phrase from the article yielded 2110 articles.

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

January 30th, 2008 Type the following as a WordPress comment and see the fun: <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">This is www.yahoo.com link</a> This should ideally cause the whole phrase (This is www.yahoo.com link) to be hyperlinked and pointing to google.com. Unfortunately WordPress sees it as two links and a plain word: "This is" is hyperlinked to www.google.com "www.yahoo.com" is hyperlinked to www.yahoo.com "link" is not hyperlinked at all Did you read about the other hyperlinking defect?