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Archive for August 2006

August 30th, 2006

Google Desperately Wants Your Data

The guys at Google have just made it easier for themselves to get more of the world’s data. After opening it’s MSOffice-like web services to the world, they now aim towards corporate class accounts with a free-for-all Google Apps for Your Domain

These services will allow people to work directly off their domains but with the […]

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August 28th, 2006

MSN Pulls it’s Latest Update

Last week we reported about an algorithm update at MSN. Now, it seems as if this update was so bad that they decided to pull it back, bringing their system to it’s original state.
Barry found a WMW post made by MSNDude who said:
We rolled back the recent update, so we’re back to the status quo […]

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August 26th, 2006

Google Talk Turns One

Google talk turned one this week and even personalized it’s logo:

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August 26th, 2006

Search Engines Updating This Weekend

Oddly enough, Google, Yahoo and MSN have been updating over this weekend.
Google had been updating it’s backlink counts on several datacenters (64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99). Yahoo and MSN have been updating their index.
While Google’s backlink count will not be followed by any drastic rank changing, make sure to keep an eye on Yahoo and MSN for […]

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August 23rd, 2006

The New Google Uniform

This has been around for a while now, but get my attention (and smile) everytime, so, I figured it is about time I share it with y’all… Oh, and, yea, it is the picture on the right…

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August 23rd, 2006

Google’s MP3 Player on Your Site

Last week, Google had upgraded it’s Google Talk adding an MP3 player feature which was meant for playback of voicemail messages. It didn’t take long before someone had figured out that this is the Google Video Player which can be freely used on any webpage.
All you have to do it add the code below to […]

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August 21st, 2006

Google’s Marketshare Declined in July

While many like to look ar this as a “Google failure” over the month of July, it seems as if Google had reached a peak in marketshare from which it can only go down and a possible rise can only come from reasons that are not up to him.
According to Comscore’s stats for the month […]

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August 19th, 2006

Google Opens it’s Web Services to the World

It’s taken them a while but now everyone can enjoy these services. Google Analytics, Writely, Spreadsheets and a new GTalk version have been opened to the public this week with no restrictions (yet).
Out of all these services, the only one I constantly use if Google Analytics for my blogs and other site. I think this […]

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August 17th, 2006

Google Launches Free WiFi for it’s Hometown

Earlier than planned, Google announced yesterday that it’s free WiFi project at it’s hometown of Mountain View, CA was lounched yesterday. The service is offered ad-free ad an approximate speed of 1MB up and down, and is available on the entire 12-square-miles of the town’s area.
I honestly believe that this is a great service and […]

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August 9th, 2006

AOL Releases Search Dataset

AOL Research had released this week a dataset collected of 500,000 users over the course of 3 months. Shortly after they pulled it back fearing privacy issues that may come up. This move, however, was too late as mirrors were already posted, and now even tools are being built, such as this one which is […]

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