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The Tutor

I’m popular, but not for long…can you help me?

Yes, I’m begging and I’m also testing as usual Here’s the deal – This post about Using Google Groups to Backup Gmail made it to the ...

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The Tutor

Blogspot contest free domain winners announced!

Woo hoo! That was pretty fun, thanks to everyone that joined in! Drum roll please…. The 6 *spam free* domain winners are: Vic http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007032320511136/ Nancy http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007030309484090/ Gdog http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/thedailykimchi/ Don http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2006121510123411/ Billy http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/BillionDollarBaloney/ Larry ...

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The Tutor

Blogspot is so bad, I’ll buy you a domain just to get your blog off there!

This post and it’s comments keeps irritating the hell out of me, not because of any particular comment, but because the issue of having your blog ...

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The Tutor

Name that finger – Easy 5 bucks to MyBlogLog users! [ends today!]

Ok, here’s the deal — I just updated my author avatar at MyBlogLog to a nasty looking finger and I decided to have some fun with it, ...

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The Tutor

I was Googled and I didn’t feel a thing!

A fun post for Friday - From Pop Art by Janet AKPC_IDS += "591,";

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The Tutor

Creepy Closeups on Google Maps

I was stumbling around today and came across this neat trick (or creepy as hell, how ever you’d like to describe it) – Super Closeups on Google Maps! Full ...

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The Tutor

Got a Google tip? Share it and get famous!

I wanted to start posting reader submitted tips for time to time, so here’s the details - Share a Google tip of 200 words or more to ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to Deflect a Google Bomb

Okay, we recently wrote about someone who stands the chance of getting Googlebombed pretty soon. While we don’t condone Googlebombing (the fun activity that it is!), ...

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Peter Jalbert

Naughty Google Finds

We know Google does no evil, but we cannot guarantee that the stuff that Google Search bots index are likewise good. There have been known cases ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Offers Free Music

Now here’s the ultimate in business models for the music industry. Remember that the RIAA is quite fond of suing people for downloading music free (a.k.a. ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Sitemaps’ Useful SEO Tools

One of the most useful utilities that the engineers and think tank at Google have ever devised is the Google Sitemaps program. The said program, which is ...

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The Tutor

Paying too much for rent?

Find out with Rentometer another Google Maps mashup tool. AKPC_IDS += "337,";

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Peter Jalbert

Most Popular Words On Google

Now here’s yet another Google popularity contest. Remember we talked about “Googleshare” earlier, where the number of results on a Google search can be used as ...

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Peter Jalbert

Getting Paid To Do Research For Google

Google is seeking participants to test their new services and products. Their User Experience Research Program recruits relevant Google users to test new developments across their service ...

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Peter Jalbert

More Google Hacking: Looking for Hidden Stuff (part 2)

Here’s more Google Hacking. There are actually a lot of keywords and operators you can use to look for files that are supposedly hidden by people ...

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Peter Jalbert

Playing and Learning With Google Maps

Remember school? Do you recall which your least-favorite subjects were? I do. And these include history and geography. For some reason, the concepts, ideas and other ...

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Peter Jalbert

What’s a Googledrome?

People are so fond of wordplay. After all, playing around with puns, alliterations, anagrams and other such activities exercises one’s mind. At the very least they’re ...

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Peter Jalbert

Screwing Up Google Translate

I believe we mentioned before that Google Translate, while the handy tool for both making rudimentary translations and acting as a proxy workaround (when behind corporate ...

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The Tutor

And now for something entirely different — Google Dirtbike Jumping!

Seemed perfect for a Friday AKPC_IDS += "305,";

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Peter Jalbert

The Google Time Machine

Sure, the Wayback machine of archive.org is cool as it gives you a peek at how websites looked like way back, dating to the early 1990’s. ...

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Peter Jalbert

Googlebombing

Now we know the term “bomb” and “bombing” have become quite scary these days, especially with the ever-present threat of terrorism. Hey, it’s September, after all, ...

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Peter Jalbert

55 Ways to Have Fun on Google

We’re currently checking out 55 Ways to Have Fun on Google, the latest compilation of tips and tricks from Google Blogoscoped’s author. It’s either $20 off ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Trends: A great SEO tool

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is just another web- and online-related undertaking becoming popular of late. This basically involves concepts in improving the likelihood that a website ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Personalized Homepage – Yet Another AJAX App?

Yahoo has My Yahoo!, and maybe you’re wondering why Google doesn’t seem to have its own version of a personalized home page. Well, it actually does, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Explore our Planet from your Home using Google Earth!

I was over at a friend’s house the other day and on his computer he showed me his own house as viewed by a satellite in ...

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