WordPress Beats Blogger in Google Search & News

November 21st, 2005 WordPress.com has finally opened for free signup by everyone. You no longer have to be a privileged invitee or a Flock user or use my hack to get an invotation.

September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.

September 12th, 2009 Which is your favorite blogging platform - WordPress or Blogger? A majority of bloggers answer that they started with Google's Blogger but have shifted to WordPress now. Well, that doesn't prove WordPress is a better blogging platform than Blogger.

July 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.

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.

January 12th, 2009 Blog authors now have an exhilarating news with Google blog converters 1.0 being released. Blogger.com was allowing its bloggers to export all the contents of the blog previously.

September 22nd, 2006 Can Translator Plugin Pro get your site unindexed in search engines or invoke any kind of penalty? No. It is an outright lie, a nasty rumour which is being spread by one of our competitors.

August 7th, 2008 WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today. It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins.

August 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.

July 12th, 2005 I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only. Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines.

April 17th, 2006 Google News apparently has decided to serve local news instead of its regular fare of U.S. centric news.

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 19th, 2006 Google Inc. unveiled a search site today to help you find U.S. government information.

July 9th, 2006 I did an image search for angsuman. The results are startling.

January 13th, 2009 Are you one of those with the new blogger beta? Still searching how to hide the blogger navbar? You known its a cross to bear for your visitors. Well, let me tell you that the new beta blogger uses different CSS tags.