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Both Google and Windows Live has released their own 411 service. If you don’t know what a 411 service please click HERE. There are demos for both Live 411 and Google 411. However, I think that Google 411 is better. Once again, like all other Google services, it is very easy to use. Whereas, with […]

A few days back google announced OpenSocial, its so called open API for social networks. Box.Net today annouced the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net. And Bebo announced Open Media platform, a way for media brands to build a presence in the community with music and video […]

When you blog do you blog for your readers or do you blog for Search Engines. I have noticed a lot of people who try to cram in as many keywords as possible into the title and content. Even I have done this when I first started blogging. We know that a number of people […]

Google now allows you to put adsense on your private forums and website which are accessible only by logging in.
We’ve recently launched a new feature called Site Authentication to take care of this problem. Using Site Authentication, you can give our crawler access to your login-protected pages by passing it information to log into your […]

While moving from blogger to Wordpress is dead easy using the inbuilt blogger importer tool in Wordpress, there is one dilemma/problem that a lot of people face, after importing from blogger, Wordpress does not maintain the Permalinks(post slugs) i.e. the URL of the blog posts. I did a bit of hunting around and I […]

Orkut is extremely popular in India. Its the MySpace for Indians. Sabeel Ahmed a terrorist (and I am ashamed to say an Indian National) who was arrested by the Australian police recently has a profile on Orkut, I was curious so I went to his profile to have a glance, his ScrapBook (Comments Section) is […]

Google has launched an Official Gmail and Orkut Blog. This has been long over due. Almost all the products that Google have their own official blogs. Gmail is one of Google most popular services. So which Google Blogs do you read. Here is a list of Google Blogs that I read.

Source: googlified

The Month of Search Engine Bugs has come to an end. It was a project in which a number of Top Hackers took par.
Main purpose of the project: to demonstrate the real state of security in search engines. There are vulnerabilities in the engines (that mean that their developers insufficiently attend to security) and the […]

FeedBurner is now offering its PRO services for free to everyone. This includes its Statistics Package TotalStats and MyBrand which lets you brand your Feeds. This comes after its recent acquisition by Google. They haven’t opened up its Ads network to everyone yet though.

 
Source: Mashable

Google just added more Coverage for places in India. This is good news I used to use Wikimapia.org as a substitute since Google didn’t show maps when you tried to looks at cities in India. Wikimapia has become a mess now, with too many people marking out places and homes, Though at times it does […]

Lets face it Google has a good standing in the geek community. People rarely go after Google. I find it very Ironic that people hold double standards when it comes to Apple Vs Microsoft Vs Google. I like to look at them with a neutral eye. First Google got some really bad PR for ranking […]

Google Redesigned their online Docs And SpreadSheets Applications it looks really neat and organized.
Here’s what’s new:

Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul - new icons, more content, and better organizational controls. We know users spend a lot of time here and we aim to make it feel more […]

Google has started an Official YouTube Channel on YouTube. Also YouTube has officially launched YouTube Remixer, a new service that allows users to edit their videos from within YouTube itself. The Remixer is powered by Adobe Premiere Express and supports insertion of graphics, text and audio as well as overlays and in-video transitions. Causal YouTube […]

I could never understand why some people/blogger’s are so obsessed with ranking for the search term make money online. Today I came across Carl’s blog a 12 year old blogger who claims that he is currently ranking number two for the search term make money online on Google and that John Chow has been pushed to number 38. I found […]

Robert Scoble has the scoop. Google Developers day is in progress and on the first day Google has released a new technology called “Gears“ to enable offline support for web based applications. This is not a new technology it has been showcased before, it mostly based on JavaScript and Flash, now that Google has […]