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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.

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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

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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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The Tutor

Google Maps Hack finds Cheap Gas!

Ahding.com has created a timely hack for everyone weary of paying high gas prices. His hack is called Cheap Gas and utilizes Google Maps and ...

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The Tutor

Googlism

Want to know what Google thinks of any person, place, thing or date? Googlism it! You call up the Googlism page and enter in the subject ...

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The Tutor

Google, Yahoo, YaGoohoo!gle or GahooYoogle?

Google? Yahoo? Google? Yahoo? Which to use for searches? Well, you know I like Google best, but sometimes it’s worth using Yahoo as well. ...

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The Tutor

Fun and Games with Google Images

New Zealand digital designer Grant Robinson has created two incredibly fun applications that utilize Google Images. One is an addicting game called Guess-the-Google and ...

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The Tutor

Stairway to Voyeur Heaven

One of the changes to the site you’ll notice is that there is now a Voyeur heaven link on the new horizontal menu up in the ...

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The Tutor

How-to find interesting video, sound and image files in unprotected directories

We’ve all got a little voyeurism in us. I’m going to show you how to create search queries that will list the contents of unprotected directories ...

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The Tutor

Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch Satelitte View through Google Maps

I just can’t get enough of Google Maps satellite view! Since Michael Jackson is in the news now, I thought it would be interesting to see ...

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The Tutor

Google Adds April Fools Day Search

It’s April Fools Day, and of course Google is having some fun with a special search which only searches for anything related to April Fools Day. ...

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The Tutor

New Items at Google’s Store

Just a quick update to let you know that there are lots of new items at the Google store that have just been added. Take a ...

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The Tutor

See all of Google’s Past Holiday Logos

See all the past and present Google logos.

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