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Gmail Attachment Capacity Now 20 MB 2007-05-23 08:04:40 People who often attach documents in bulk using their Gmail
accounts will love it that Gmail’s attachment capacity has upgraded to 20MB from 10 MB.
This will be very helpful to me since I attach large files, usually writeups, often for editing. I just hope my forward-messages-loving (read: SPAMMERS) friends won’t take advantage of this new upgrade from Gmail on sending me videos and glittery flash images in chain email formats.
If only there’d be lesser downtimes too, which I’m often experiencing with my Gmail account lately. I’m not sure if it’s because of my connection or something.
via GoogleSystem
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Have More Fun GTalking: Create Gmail Emoticons 2007-05-22 08:46:25 Just when I thought, it’s only Yahoo! Messenger that has the most fun emoticons, Rico Mossesgeld, a contract working guru with a very informative blog, shared some tips on how to create more Gmail
emoticons aside from the generic ones.
Although they’re not as colorful or as emotional such as the crying and laughing emoticons from YM, still something that will make GTalking less of a bore, right?
Gmail’s smilies do more than express emotions. Such as hug (awwww), raise its arms up for joy, be a caterpillar, and even give the double-finger salute. All you need is a little imagination , an affinity for one-line ASCII art, and the willingness of your recipient to receive nonsensical messages. Gmail chat only works with online contacts after all.
Just one problem, I have no affinity for ASCII art. :`(
Check out more of Rico’s post about this.
Tags: Gmail, GTalk, emoticons, Rico Mossesgeld
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Get $100 per Hour Using Blogger 2007-05-22 08:23:50
If you like experiments and is a Blogger
fan, you might want to participate in the usability studies that Google conduct to improve the user experience part of this Google product.
What’s in it for you? Please read the title again.
Yes. You can earn from $75 to $100 just by using Blogger.
Will it involve electrodes getting attached to your body? Check it out at the FAQ.
Sign up here and read more about this gig here.
Tags: Blogger, user experience, Google experiment
What Drove Google to Go DoubleClick 2007-05-22 00:09:27 Despite numerous hype on security threats, the much controversial purchase of DoubleClick by Google
has pushed through and closed at a $3.1 billion deal, about twice as much as the amount Google placed to purchase Youtube.com in the previous year. Google did this to expand their expertise in the field of display advertisements and as a strategy to keep from rival Microsoft to seize the benefits DoubleClick gives its highest bidder.
Over the years, investors in Google have been happily gaining rewarding dividends in its success in search results and advertisements which bring a huge chunk of Google’s revenue. Just like any thriving company, Google refused to rest in its laurels and past glories when it decided to take DoubleClick under its wing under a very considerable cost.
With this move, Google has definitely secured its potential in expanding itself in the business of being one of the most reliable online businesses in the world, and left little room for the likes of Microsof
Salesforce and Google Joint Force 2007-05-21 08:06:28
Customer relationship management company SalesForce
has been recently reported to start partnering with Google
.
The results maybe the integration of Google’s online collaboration services such as Gmail and Gtalk.
This partnership is rumored to be for the purpose of preparing to outperform Microsoft.
More sources discussing this partnership here and here. Read more:Salesforce
, Joint
Google Job Openings: Web Programmers 2007-05-21 01:03:03
Maybe you have read or heard from someone that working for Google
, which is one of the best companies to work for, is simply one goal that’s becoming a part of the American dream or even the entire world’s dream for that matter, especially, the geekies’.
Why not? Aside from this reason,
Work and play are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to code and pass the puck at the same time.
Learn more about what motivates many to work for billion-dollar company.
If you’d like to enjoy the Googler life in the Googleplex
in MountainView, California and you just happen to be a web programming guru, you’ve just lucked out! Google is looking for visual designers, interaction designer and other professionals with programming skills.
Don’t want to work in California but would still like to work for Google? Browse job openings according to US locations.
via BlogHerald
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Google Custom Search Engine URL Patterns Tips 2007-05-20 03:10:23 For those who have created custom search engines, here are some URL pattern (the method for specifying sites and pages to include in a search engine) info that the Google
team has provided to further your knowledge on how to maximize this feature:
The simplest type of pattern is the URL of a specific page. You can use an asterisk (or star, in techie vernacular) as a wild card in your pattern to specify a swath of URLs by identifying their common characters. Here’s how it works: rather than add each page of www.site.com to your search engine, you can merely add www.site.com/* and we will include every URL that begins with www.site.com. Similarly, rather than individually adding each subdomain of site.com, you can use the star to include them all: *.site.com will apply to www.site.com, server.site.com, etc.
Another way to use patterns is to identify and distill common characters among a set of pages you’d like to include in your index. For example, if I know that all car revi Read more:Search
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YouTube Scammed 2007-05-16 07:16:07
A now-removed video clip on Youtube about a woman giving birth to a can of fizzy drink has caused commotion in the world of online video sharing.
The half minute-long commercial for energy drink IRN-BRU on YouTube
isn’t all that original, or really very funny. All the same, the clip “R0049_TDAU8″ garnered 113 million hits and received a five-star review, with more than 70,000 visitors giving the clip the popular video site’s highest content approval rating.
It wasn’t because the YouTube users now have warped taste when it comes to what’s interesting and what’s not. What caused the video to get those millions of hits is the doing of YouTube’s rating system abusers.
via Yahoo! News
Search All of Google WITHOUT Site Hopping 2007-05-15 03:52:53 Simply Google
an oh-so simple page where all of the Google products and services can all be accessed. All the accounts, the innumerable blogs for the wide variety of services Google provides, and downloads are all in one page! No more googling this time.
According to its creator, Chris McEvoy, it was my attempt to expose the hidden google information architecture. Since then I have been keeping the page up to date and have just added a co.uk version, so it seems like a good time to review the past year for Simply Google.
One Read/Write Web (where I’ve learned about Simply Google) reader, it’s ugly but damn useful. So give it a try.
And if you agree with the useful part, yeah, don’t forget to bookmark it. Read more:Search
Getting There: How to Get Driving Directions from Google Earth 2007-05-12 04:25:46 Lost and confused? Never has finding an address been so easy, thanks to GoogleEarth
. Your days of pulling over to ask for directions are probably gone for good.
Google Earth
can help you find your way, wherever you are. Here’s how:
First, open your computer or mobile phone and access Google Earth on the internet. Click the tab that indicates ‘Directions
’. This will give you a preview of what route you should take, along with the precise directions how to get there.
Next, type your starting location or address and your ending location. Click ‘Search’ and Google Earth will calculate your directions. When you hit ‘Play’, Google will ‘fly’ you over the roads and highways and show you the route.
If the location is already displayed on the screen, simply click on the placemark, where a bubble will appear containing information. If this is the location you’re going to, simply click the button ‘To here’. Next, simply typ Read more:Driving
Google Buying FeedBurner Conversations 2007-05-25 05:03:49 If you’re a true-blue Google
fan, you already know that for $100 million, Google has just acquired FeedBurner
, the most popular startup company offering RSS feed service.
Here you can follow what’s mentioned about this acquisition before and after:
The rumor about the Google FeedBurner acquisition was mentioned at Mashable.
The Good Part of the Acquisition:
FeedBurner will enhance the Google Analytics and Google Reader products and its relationship with bloggers?. - SearchEngineJournal
The Bad Part of the Acquisition:
Google ads on RSS feeds. - Vecosys
More on those who are not fine with this acquisition because of reasons like unreliability of Google when it comes to monetizing content using AdSense.
Now for a more in-depth pros and cons of this acquisition, take it away, Andy Beard.
I’m all for the Google Analytics - Feed stats integration because it will definitely help in knowing more how your subscribers behave if Google Analytics will come in the scene. But the Read more:Buying
BlackBerry 8800 Shows You the Way 2007-05-24 08:39:45 BlackBerry 8800, one of the feature-packed BlackBerry mobile phones, with it QWERTY keypad and GPS, has another feature to boast of - Google Maps for Mobile.
Downloading Google Maps for Mobile will inform you automatically where your location is when you check your BlackBerry 8800 smartphone.
When you download Google Maps for mobile and fire it up, you’ll notice something quite unusual: a blinking blue dot showing you exactly where you are! You can use your auto-detected location to get directions and perform local searches without even entering your location — instead of “pizza 94043″, just enter “pizza” — and we’ll automatically know you want pizza in the zip code “94043.”
When will Nokia smartphones such as the e61i have the same feature?
via Google Blog
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A Tool for Niche Bloggers 2007-05-24 07:36:38 If you’re a fan of Google Trends, a service that shows what’s hot in a country which allows comparison to other countries, then you’d be glad Google added the Hot Trends feature.
Hot Trends enables users to see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S. Users can also select specific dates to see what the top-rising searches were at a given point in time.
I find this very useful to those who have or are just planning to setup niche blogs. The more searched the information you deliver, the more chances of getting traffic, right? NOT! If you’re just starting on your blog that is. But with the right content, competition assessment, and blog promotion tactics, sure.
As of this writing, the Hot Trends results include the following:
1. american idol winner
2. who won american idol
3. american idol finale
Guess you now know what do the Google users in the US have in common, huh?
Tags: american idol finale, hot trends google, niche bl
Google Maps Launches Street View Feature 2007-05-29 10:37:37 Catching up with Windows Street
View, Google
Maps has also launched its own Street View. The speculations started when Google was spotted getting domain names with “Google Street View” registered.
Street View is a new feature of Google Maps
that enables users to view and navigate within 360 degree street level imagery of various cities in the US. Street View provides users with a rich, immersive browsing experience directly in Google Maps, enabling greater understanding of a specific location or area. Street View imagery will initially be available for maps of the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, and will soon expand to other metropolitan areas. By clicking on the “Street View” button in Google Maps, users can navigate street level, panoramic imagery. With Street View users can virtually walk the streets of a city, check out a restaurant before arriving, and even zoom in on bus stops and street signs to make travel plans. Press rele
How to Use the Gmail Filter Feature 2007-05-29 07:45:00 Gmail
’s spam filtering is not the only functionality of the Gmail filter feature. Here are the other uses of Gmail filter compiled by Lifehacker.org:
Archived bookmarks. If you use del.icio.us and other bookmarking services, you can archive them all in a Gmail label (”bookmarks”). Get the feed urls for each of your bookmarking services, enter them in a forwarding service such as rssfwd.com, and then set up a filter to label them all “bookmarks”. Now all your bookmarks are in one place, with Gmail’s great search.
Backups. Create a second Gmail account for storage, and create a filter to automatically forward any emails with attachments (”has:attachments”) to this second address. Now you can delete your old emails without guilt or worry.
No delete. Some emails you don’t want to delete — those precious ones from your kids, for example, or maybe ones from your boss. Set up a label (”nodelete”) and a filter that puts the nodelete label on emails from (or to) the Read more:Filter
FeedBurner: Officially Acquired 2007-06-02 03:06:20 The official Google blog has officially announced its acquisition of FeedBurner
. There’s even an audio file of Google’s press call with Dick Costolo, FeedBurner’s CEO.
The announcement’s entitle Adding More Flare. Now is that for FeedBurner or for Google’s advantage?
Google Job Opening: Online Operations Strategist 2007-06-02 02:36:06 If you have been using the Google
products (such as Google News, Checkout, Gmail, AdSense, AdWords, Earth, and Blogger) for quite some time and you have a lot to suggest on how they can be improved for user experience, you might want to apply for this job opening as an Online Operations Strategist.
The responsibilities of this job mainly include customer service support and product development assistance. A BA/BS degree and 2-4 years customer support and related tasks experience are required.
Sounds more of a call center agent job to me.
It’s one of the non-engineering Google jobs I’ve come across, which doesn’t happen too often.
Learn more about the details of this job here.
Gear Up for Google Gears 2007-05-31 23:37:14
Offline web apps from Google
, anyone? I’m sure lots of web app faves will raise their hands.
The Google engineers have now made things more fun for the geekos who are simply obsessed with Google apps because they’re now offering them as a browser plugin that can be used OFFLINE - Google Gears
.
For you to install this plugin, your computer should meet the following system requirements:
• Windows XP/Vista
• Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+
Google Gears (BETA) is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
As a concrete example of what you can do with Google Gears, Google Reader, the RSS reader service from Google, can be used offline if you have Google Gears. Now what could be cooler than that?
Full press release
Tags: Google Gears, Google Reader, Web Apps
All Your Company are Belong to Google 2007-06-05 02:56:23 If you’re curious as to what other acquisitions Google
had in the past, I mean the companies it has turned into either gold or trash, (come on not all Google acquisitions had become better services…) a WebMasterWorld forum member enumerated them. Here are those who have turned into gold in my opinion:
Urchin Software
Pyra Labs
Applied Semantics
Can you guess what Google product or service they’ve become or they’re currently called?
Here are more of the services that are included in the list of Google Acquisitions.
via PinoyTechBlog
Tags: Google acquisitions, WebMasterWorld
Local TV and YouTube 2007-06-07 02:18:25 Hearst-Argyle, a local TV station, was reported to get local videos on YouTube
channels with a revenue share deal. According to TVWeek, YouTube channels offering Hearst-Argyle videos include:
www.youtube.com/wcvbtv
www.youtube.com/wmurtv
www.youtube.com/kcratv
www.youtube.com/wtaetv
www.youtube.com/wbal
via Bloggers Blog Read more:Local
AdSense Policy Updates 2007-06-06 08:15:29 Two notable AdSense policy components were announced today at the Official AdSense blog:
1. The Page Quality Requirement which many AdWord users are already accustomed to. This is more about improving the usability of a website and the quality of its content.
2. Three link units are now allowed in stead of the old law of only one unit.
Check out the updated Google AdSense Program Policies.
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Go Celebrity Crib Spotting Using Google Street View 2007-06-10 23:32:37 Here’s a fun time-killer way to use GoogleStreet
View. Check out the celebrity homes as found from Google Street View.
That’s reportedly Nastassja Kinski’s place.
Check out more of celebrity homes and neighborhoods - Mashable.
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Google Apps Helps Colleges Go High Tech 2007-06-09 06:36:02 Aside from the Library Search Project, one of Google
’s “do no evil” educational endeavor is widely gaining popularity - its FREE assistance in modernizing the email systems of schools in the form of Google’s Apps for Education.
Google’s Apps for Education allows colleges to dump their often-antiquated e-mail systems and replace them with Gmail, Google’s popular e-mail service. But unlike standard Gmail accounts, schools can maintain their “.edu” addresses, have students log in from school Web sites, brand the system with their own logos and block advertisements that typically appear in standard Gmail accounts.
Among the first few schools to benefit from Google Apps
include Hope College in Holland, Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. This education program also includes access to Google docs and spreadsheet, Google calendar, and iGoogle.
Full report here.
Tags: iGoogle, Google Docs and Spreadsheet, Gmail, Google Apps
Gmail.co.in Now Belongs to Google 2007-06-09 06:01:18
An arbitrator appointed by National Internet Exchange of India made a Chinese national transfer the domain name gmail.co.in to its rightful owner - Google
.
Google Inc, which launched its website ‘gmail’ in April 2004 worldwide, applied for the registration of the mark in India in 2005. The company had filed a complaint before NIXI seeking transfer of domain name ‘gmail.co.in’ when it came to know that the address was registered by a Chinese national.
The arbitrator observed that Zhaoyang registered a company “Gmail
Ltd” only after the complaint was filed by Google and the domain name “gmail.co.in” was transfered to the company one day later.
Imposing a cost of Rs 50,000 on the Chinese company, the arbitrator said: “The company has failed to furnish any explanation about the adoption of an identical mark. All these indicate that a disputed domain name is got registered and used by respondent in bad faith in respect of the general co
YouTube Lets You Bring On the Presidential Democratic Debate 2007-06-15 02:17:36
Aside from You Choose ‘08, YouTube
’s program on educating people and connecting them to the presidential candidates via online videos, YouTube launched another initiative to further get politically involved - the CNN/YouTube Debate
s.
Through this program, YouTube asks its users to create quick online videos of presidential debate questions. Submit your videos here. Then, you can tune in to CNN on July 23 to see if you’re question has been asked.
Here are the guidelines in creating a debate question video for CNN and YouTube’s Debates.
- Keep it quick—your question should be less than 30 seconds.
- Make it look good—we’re looking for high audio and video quality.
- Choose your focus—you can address one or all of the candidates on a single issue.
- Be creative—we’ll appreciate unique settings and approaches.
- Be personal—we want your perspective and general relevance.
- Please note—all videos are subject to the YouTube Terms of Use.
via G Read more:Presidential
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How to Report Paid Links to Google 2007-06-13 05:58:00
Now why would you want to do that in the first place? If you are running a search engine optimization campaign but would rather do it in an organic way, meaning you don’t buy links or any of those easier ways to game search engines, you might outperform competitors without having to pay anyone - report those paid links!
Google
’s policy in ranking websites or its Pagerank calculations is not for this method of advertising. Google does not prioritize paid links.
And for your convenience, Google has just further facilitated the method of doing this job. Google provided a paid links reporting form which can be found within the Webmaster Tools. Just log in and report sites that are buying and selling links.
But if you are selling links for advertising purposes, there are many ways you can designate this, including:
- Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the href tag
- Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt
Going Green Google Joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative 2007-06-13 03:57:57
Intel together with Google
, Dell, EDS, EPA, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, WWF, and other organizations are joining forces to save energy and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in an initiative called Climate
Savers Computing
Initiative.
This will be accomplished with the use of computers and computer parts, which are energy-efficient, and promoting the use of these environment-friendly computers.
Full press release
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Google Analytics Now Allows Checking Your Site Stats Hour by Hour 2007-06-13 00:22:50
Thanks to the requests of search engine optimization or online marketing experts like Andy Beal, Danny Sullivan, publishers with massive traffic on their sites, or just those who are addicted on checking their stats almost every other minute can now enjoy GoogleAnalytics
new features:
AdWords Integration
Advertisers using AdWords can now more easily link this service to Google Analytics
. With Placement Performance and Google Analytics, how more detailed can your campaign analysis get?
Hourly Reporting
Viewing by daily or hourly is now an option. I’m not sure I’m going to be using this feature too much right now but when my sites get to reach thousands of hits per hour, who knows?!
Clickable URLs
The URLs on the Referring Sites, Top Content, Top Landing Pages and Top Exit Pages can now be clicked and can lead to external pages. This feature’s cool if you’d like to track those single links that are sending you lots of traffic.
Cross Segmentation by Netw Read more:Stats
AdWords Advertiser Tool: Placement Performance Report 2007-06-12 01:37:55
US Advertiser
s using AdWords are now given the chance to improve their ad campaigns with the help of the PlacementPerformance
report, which just got out of beta testing. The main goal of this report is to show to advertisers the site-by-site data, which consequently can help in deciding which site to target more aggressively.
Here’s how to create a Placement Performance report.
After the shutting down of Made for AdSense sites, this will be a very handy tool for advertisers since it’s now less stressful to weed out the non-performing sites.
In the next few weeks, this new AdWord feature will also be available in other countries.
Read more of the discussions about AdWords‘ Placement Performance report feature.
Full press release.
Tags: AdWords, Placement Performance, MFA, AdSense
Save on Gas Prices with iGoogle 2007-06-17 08:31:39
iGoogle, the personalized home page for those who are quite satisfied with Google can have the advantage of choosing from a wide variety of iGoogle widgets or gadgets to add to their personal Google pages.
And for those who frugal ones trying to make the most out their hard-earned dollars, an iGoogle gadget - Local Gas Price, is set to help iGooglers find best gas price deals.
via Lifehacker
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