Google Image Labeler

Published at May 6, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

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Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search for improving Image search in Google. It relies on users to label the images randomly to improve the quality of their image search.
Any one can [...]

iGoogle and Gadget Maker

Published at May 1, 2007   Filed Under Google, Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Google renamed personalized home page google/ig to iGoogle. With iGoogle it is now possible to make your own gadgets. Gadgets look simple and very easy to create, you dont have to be a programmer to make gadgets.

Once you create the gadget it will be added to your home page, you can invite your friends to [...]

Google Checkout Hijacked?

Published at April 30, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

Looks like google checkout search result on Google hijacked by hibidder.com. Search for Google Checkout on Google, the first result you will see is “use google checkout on hibidder com free”. Is this mean google chekout result is hijacked by hibidder.com. But when you click the link it goes to original google checkout page. [...]

How Search Engines treat No Follow link attribute

Published at April 30, 2007   Filed Under Google, Yahoo   0 Comments  

Nofollow is a link attrubute adopted by search engines like Google and Yahoo to fight comment and link spam. This nofollow link attribute is automatically added when you post a comment in any wordpress or blogger.com blogs. Recently wikipedia also introduced this nofollow link attribute to fight link spam.
Search Engine Journal came up with [...]

Google Releases Patches for MySQL

Published at April 25, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   0 Comments  

Google is a big fan of the open source MySql relational database, it uses this for its applications. Google made some patches to the relational MySql database for better manageability and reliability, google has released these patches for the community, Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer at Google posted on the google code blog. These patches are [...]

How to Open Multiple Gtalk Instances

Published at April 20, 2007   Filed Under Google, Tweaks   10 Comments  

Some of us have multiple gmail ids for whatever reasons, but we can not open all the ids at a time with gtalk in a single computer. One solution for this is to use gtalk, gmail in IE and gmail in Firefox simultaneously, this way you can login to different Ids. The other solution is [...]

Google Picks for you: Stumbleupon Rival

Published at April 18, 2007   Filed Under Google, Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Google released a button for its toolbar, the functionality resembles Stumbleupon. You can install the button from here. It doesn’t support Firefox yet, you can install in Internet Explorer.
Unlike Stumbleupon which shows sites based on user votes, Google Picks for you shows the sites based on the search history of the user. When i clicked [...]

Google docs spreadsheets to have presentations soon

Published at April 17, 2007   Filed Under Google, Software   4 Comments  

Google is all set to add presentations soon to already popular Google Docs & Spreadsheets. That means a complete online office tools for the user, does it send any signals to Microsoft. Tonic Systems which Google just acquired have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition [...]