News Posts

The Tutor

Google Tutor on Webmaster Radio!

I just got caught up with my podcast listening this morning and man did I pick a bad time to get behind! Turns out my boys DaveN ...

Click to continue... 3 comments...

The Tutor

New from Netvibes - Universal Widget API

I know many of you use Netvibes so I thought this was pretty interesting: UWA (stand for Universal Widget API) by Netvibes, has been relesed today. This product ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

The Tutor

MyBlogLog thinks Google Tutor is hot!

This is really neat – Yeah, you are seeing that right, today GT became a “hot” MBL community!!! How cool is that? I’ve really been enjoying the short ...

Click to continue... 3 comments...

The Tutor

I’m proud to announce the launch of Research Google!

It slices, it dices, nah…but it does dig deep to get the dirt on Google! Saturday morning I decided it was time to take Google Co-op for ...

Click to continue... 5 comments...

The Tutor

Is Gmail a Killer App?

Steve Ruble has a great post today on turning Gmail into your personal nerve center that might make you think that it is - However, in recent weeks I have ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

The Tutor

BIG Google Desktop Security Flaw - 2 exploits already!

Wow, this flaw makes me glad I’m not running Google Desktop at the moment - the consequences could be serious, according to Robert Hansen, the independent security ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

The Tutor

Blogger blogs accidentally removed from search engines

Yikes! I missed this post last week about Blogger automatically adding the meta noindex tag to all Blogger blogs. That’s bad, and although it appears to ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

The Tutor

Google Feedfetcher Now Reporting Subscribers

I was away for the long weekend and posted this about my Feedfetcher stats before I finished the morning’s reading. Looks like I got psyched for ...

Click to continue... One comment...

The Tutor

Google Feedfetcher subscriptions up 1000%

I’m looking for a little help here from the blogging/rss/feedburner gurus out there — anyone else seeing a very significant bump in Google Feedfetcher ’subscribers’ starting ...

Click to continue... 4 comments...

The Tutor

My Shoemoney Says Google Co-Op is Broke!

Just now I was reading Shoemoney’s blog and noticed his subscription link to Google Co-op and thought I’d check it out. Couple problems though – 1) Jeremy spelled ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

Peter Jalbert

Share Your Personalized Google News

I just noticed this recently when browsing through my personalized Google News. Apparently, you can also share your personalized Google News layout. This way, your friends ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

The Tutor

NickW’s new project.

Like me I suspect many of you have been reading Nick’s stuff for years now. I’ve been reading him since WebmasterWorld where his wise ass attitude straight ...

Click to continue... One comment...

The Tutor

Firefox 3 to Support Google Apps Offline

I caught this interesting piece from Richard over at Read/WriteWeb, apparently FF3.O will allow the user to use web apps offline as well as on: Robert O’Callahan ...

Click to continue... 2 comments...

Peter Jalbert

Personalizing Google News

Reading the morning news on the papers can get to be boring, especially since the papers usually have similar headlines and news content. And this can ...

Click to continue... 2 comments...

The Tutor

Google buying YouTube $1.65 billion

Full story. Guess they didn’t like not being first in video!

Click to continue... Add a comment...

Peter Jalbert

Google Blog Slips Up. Again.

It’s strike two for the Google Blog. Remember that slip-up that happened not very long ago, when the Google Blog team deleted its own blog by mistake, ...

Click to continue... 3 comments...

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 ...

Click to continue... 6 comments...

Peter Jalbert

Google’s Take On Text Link Ads

In Google’s “Quality Guidelines“, it states pretty clearly-: “Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. Avoid tricks intended to improve search ...

Click to continue... 7 comments...

The Tutor

School loan consolidation - $70 a click!?

All I can say is wow! I had no idea the school loan business was so lucrative. According to this article some Google AdWords advertisers are paying almost ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

Peter Jalbert

Google Spreadsheets Now on Preview

Is this the beginning of the end for desktop-based Office/productivity applications? Web-based email had been popular since commercial and free e-mail services were introduced. Web-based word ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

Peter Jalbert

Google News and Suggest Combine

According to the official Google Blog, Google has integrated Google Suggest with Google News. But what exactly is Google Suggest, you may ask. In a nutshell, ...

Click to continue... Add a comment...

Peter Jalbert

Google Blog Search!

The search engine gaint has added another feature to it’s armory of web applications, Google Blog Search. It has gone live, in it’s beta version now: ...

Click to continue... 3 comments...

The Tutor

Newsmap Brings the Heat to Google News

We all love how Google News lets us see the top news stories in a glance. But, a clever programmer named Marcos Weskamp has created ...

Click to continue... 3 comments...

The Tutor

XTRA Google

XTRA Google is a nice web page that you can use instead of the usual Google homepage that makes it easier to begin many types of ...

Click to continue... 6 comments...

The Tutor

Now Create Powerful Custom News Page Sections!

Google News (amazingly still called a beta!) has added a very powerful customization feature today. Others have covered the addition, but I’m going to tell you ...

Click to continue... 6 comments...