Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

Google Books updates

  • March 14th, 2010
  • Posted in Web 2.0

Beside the Google Books Settlement, Google Books is one of those Google projects that doesn’t receive too much attention despite of its usefulness. But, apparently things are about to change. This year, Google Books received a new, and more useful, interface, ability to create different shelves to categorize your books and I’m getting more and [ READ MORE ]

New Google Layout

Tonight I was searching with an anonymous proxy on Google when I got a new (at least for me layout). The new choice of colors is way more pleasant than the old colors and there are also a few other changes (icons and labeling) on the more options sidebar. Hope that this test passes and [ READ MORE ]

Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) errors

As I previously mentioned, a few days ago I was testing some new features on Google CSE. Unfortunately nothing worked as expected. I tried using the forums and directly contacting one of the CSE team members with no results. Today, using a new account, I started fresh and everything worked as advertised. Looks like Google’s [ READ MORE ]

Photosynth in Google Street View

Google LatLong blog is anouncing that now Microsoft Photosynth is available on Google Maps’s Street view. Oh wait, is not Photosynth is only Picasa integration Looking how similar the products are I’m curios how long it will take until the patent lawsuit appears. And who will win&#[ READ MORE ]

RANT: Google Indexing

  • August 12th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO

1. Even though the last post here was on 22nd March, Google stopped crawling only in May, and that’s the date of the last cache. I’m curious how long does it take to resurrect a crawler on a hibernating site/blog. Results will be posted soon. 2. For some reasons, one of my websites has received [ READ MORE ]