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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Quickly Flip Through the News With Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip, launched recently by Google as one of its Labs projects presents a different news reading experience which gives a feel of reading news ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google to Provide IPv6 Access

Google recently announced that they will be offering access to Google and its services over IPv6. What does this mean for you? Essentially nothing. ...

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The Tutor

Shared Items – November 18, 2008

Here are some of the more interesting items I noticed in my RSS reader today. 8 Ways to Buy Links Without “Buying Links” November 16, 2008 Google’s Relevancy Algorithms ...

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The Tutor

Interesting items…

Here’s some of the more interesting items I noticed in my RSS reader today. Introducing SketchUp 7 9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone - useful iphone ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google News offers Related Searches feature

Google News has rolled out an interesting new feature called “Related Searches” which will be popular for people who are looking to expand their knowledge of ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google News Tip: Section Controls

If you’re fond of news portals like cnn.com, bbc.co.uk or some other major news site on the web, do try out Google’s own – Google News. Google ...

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Mark O'Neill

Suggest new features to Google for Google News

I am a daily visitor to Google News – I use it mainly when researching what stories to blog about and although it is a wonderful ...

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Mark O'Neill

Had enough of Britney Spears or Paris Hilton in Google News?

If you’re like me, you will have had more than enough of the antics of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.   Barely a day goes by without ...

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The Tutor

You can now subscribe to GT comments by email

Thanks to my buddy Andy Beard who bugged me about this a while back you can now follow the discussion in comments by email, just check ...

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The Tutor

Brian Wallace now covering the social side of Google at Google Tutor!

I’m proud to announce that Brian Wallace will be joining the party here at GT! Brian is the social media ninja behind the Nowsourcing and Collective Thoughts ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google News now offering US elections module

You can tell that Christmas is over and that the US primary process is now in full-force. If you go to Google News ...

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Mark O'Neill

Find news stories easier in Google News

I am a serious news junkie. I have CNN on virtually all day while I am working at the computer and I subscribe ...

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The Tutor

Two new bloggers kickin it at Google Tutor!

I’m proud to announce two new bloggers you’ll see here on GT – Mark O’Neill and Joost de Valk! Mark O’Neill You’ve probably noticed this guy writing a ...

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The Tutor

New theme for Google Tutor!

Well, it took 4 years but the time finally came, we’ve got a new theme!! I couldn’t tweak the old one any further and it was getting ...

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Mark O'Neill

Stumbleupon links now appearing in Google News

By Mark O’Neill  While I was browsing Google News this morning, I discovered that news pages rated in Stumbleupon are now appearing in Google News along with ...

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Mark O'Neill

Is Google a friend to Mozilla Firefox or a potential rival?

By Mark O’Neill  An interesting piece has popped up in the International Herald Tribune about Mozilla Firefox’s heavy dependency on Google’s money and whether that relationship will ...

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Mark O'Neill

Is Google’s dominance in search under threat from the “upstarts”?

By Mark O’Neill An article in Newsweek magazine suggests that Google’s position at the top of the search engines could be under serious threat by competitors, including ...

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Mark O'Neill

How to set up personalized Google news feeds

By Mark O’Neill Some of you might find this blindingly obvious, but all the same I thought I would write about it for the few that ...

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Mark O'Neill

YouTube makes its debut appearance in Google News

By Mark O’Neill Search Engine Watch is reporting that YouTube videos are starting to appear in Google News listings. Sure enough, video links are starting to pop up ...

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The Tutor

Going full RSS feed!

Ah, the great debate – full vs. partial RSS feeds! Like many of you I’ve been following the debate all over the blogosphere for years now and ...

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The Tutor

WebProNews loses all credibility, asks John Chow about Google rankings!?

WTF? I like WPN and John Chow but what is going on here!? Let’s see WPN is know for: Usually decent tech info, especially on the SEO/SEM side ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google News Tutorial: Personalization

Personalization: it’s the next big evolution happening to search in making search engines more intelligent and user-friendly at the same time. And Google News is no ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google News Tutorial: Search

While the common use case in News reading assumes a passive user/reader simply browsing all the available news for that day, there are people on some ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google News: Learning the basics

If we look back at the main Google News page, you will see three main parts: Navigation and Tools on the left sidebar, Search on the ...

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Peter Jalbert

Rediscovering Google News

It’s probably a widely accepted reality: Google News has not been the prime focus of Google in terms of resources and in finding ways to directly ...

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