All Posts Tagged With: "Google"
New My Yahoo! Beta Site - First Looks
I’ve been using My Yahoo! as my homepage for about 8 years until recently. Frankly, I’d been disappointed that the service had remained unchanged for a long time and over the last couple of months I’ve been alternating between using Rojo.com and Start.com as my homepage.Well, Yahoo! today very quietly launched a new beta [...]
24Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedConnect To Google Talk And Skype Via Trillian
The launch of Google Talk created a bit of a dilemma for me this morning. I try to keep as few programs running as possible on my machine, which, I guess is a throwback to the days of DOS when a few extra k could be the difference between being able to get a [...]
24Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedGoogle Sandbox - How To Get Listed In Under A Day
Feedblog is struggling to get listed on Google and has been Sandboxed.
I was told that the quickest way to get indexed is to get site with a Page Rank of 6 or higher to link to you - a Page Rank of 6 will get you indexed within 3 days and a Page Rank of [...]
Google IM Service Launched - Google Talk
Google’s long-rumoured IM service is now available for download and is aptly called Google Talk.I haven’t been able to really use the service as I don’t have any gmail contacts but my first impressions of the service are:
The interface is super-simple and clean which I like
Google Talk is built on Jabber/XMPP which I think this [...]
New Google Desktop - I’m Not Impressed
I’ve just installed the new Google Desktop tool and I’m not very impressed. The new tool now offers a sidebar option that now includes new components that show the latest gmail messages, give the latest news, allows the taking of notes, shows web history and displays the weather forecast.Although some people may find this [...]
23Aug2005 | Everton | 2 comments | ContinuedGoogle Voice/IM Service Using Jabber To Launch Soon?
It seems that there may be some truth to the rumours that Google is looking into building a IM/VoIP client. The domain talk.google.com is live and directs to www.google.com/talk/ which gives a 404 error.I’m expecting a service using Jabber similar to AOL’s allowing Google’s messenger to communicate with all the other big services - [...]
23Aug2005 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedSee Who Is Linking To Your pPosts - Try TalkDigger
Kevin Burton alerted me to another linking/citation service from PubSub which I didn’t realise was available. The PubSub service is quite cool and is well laid out - here’s PubSub’s profile for Connected Internet.However, it was frustrating yet again to see that PubSub have picked up sites other linking tools like Technorati and IceRocket [...]
19Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Often Does Google Update PageRanks?
I was just wondering how often does Google update PageRanks?
Mine jumped from 0 to 4 within a month of blogging and hasn’t moved for 4 months (has it been that long). Was I just lucky as I’ve noticed a lot of other blogs who have been around for longer than me who are stuck [...]
SEO Tips: 10 Useful Tips
I’ve been using the free version of Web CEO this evening and even in the free version I’ve picked up a lot of useful tips to help with my Search Engine Optimisation. Here are 10 things that I’ve learnt so far:
Don’t use stop words like “and” “on” “a” “the” “about” “are” “that” “were” “by” [...]
11Aug2005 | Everton | 7 comments | ContinuedTrying To Improve My Listings
I’ve just realised that search engines like Google and Technorati tend to crawl my homepage so I’ve added more posts to see if it improves my listings.
Let me know if you think this is a bad idea or if my pages are loading too slow for ya and I’ll go back to a smaller number [...]




