Google is really the king of suspense. With all the buzz about Page Rank drops for major sites, it had to happen – a real Page Rank update. Sometime around a few hours ago, Google did something I never expected, raise my Page Rank to 3 in the space of a few hours. Yep, checked… Read More »
October 24 2007 – A day of Web infamy. Right now even as I speak, there is carnage, and more carnage everywhere, on the Web. Making good on its warning, Google has begun round two of its campaign to demote sites which it has deemed to be not in compliance with its policies. The first… Read More »
Google continues its upward trend with an increase of 46% in its 3rd quarter profits this year, of which a large percentage came from advertising. Adwords and Adsense specifically. According to MSN news, Google earned some $1.07 billion during the 3rd quarter of 2007 (normally a sluggish period), stumping analysts and everyone alike. It is… Read More »
Blog Action Day just passed yesterday. I didn’t think it would be much use to blog about the thousand and one ways to help the environment, when the only thing worth doing is the one thing we ALL ought to be doing daily, everyday. Why not start by cultivating more healthy thinking? It doesn’t take… Read More »
Apart from Google’s Page Rank (which might be getting phased out), the other Web metric tool to measure a website’s visitor count is the Alexa rank score. The Alexa rank is a Web traffic measurement system developed by the Alexa Internet company based on usage of their freely downloadable toolbar. In 1999, Amazon bought over… Read More »
Today, while checking my Gmail, I noticed that the storage space has crossed over past 3 Gb worth of storage space. It was like 2.9 Gb for the longest time, and there’s no way it could have gone up so fast. According to the official Gmail blog, it says that “more Gmail storage is coming.”… Read More »
I’ve been hearing a lot about Facebook, but I still don’t know what’s the fuss. So far. I know of its reputed price tag of 10 billion up, which sounds like overkill, making even MySpace or YouTube seem very puny in comparison. Any sale of Facebook for billions would instantly “jack up” prices of websites… Read More »
If you are using WordPress 2.3, which is the latest version, there is a new feature of it which may appear alarming to some; it transmits your blog information and URL, along with the version number, to the main WordPress server. This feature is not a spying feature, but has been implied to be so… Read More »
Got up this morning, and wasn’t expecting anything different, but got a pleasant surprise when I found out I was one of the winners of Problogger’s Birthday Bash celebrations! Woot, baby, just had to post this *mandatory winner’s speech,* and what can I say, I’m just plain happy 🙂 A huge thanks to Darren Rowse,… Read More »
If you always wanted a cool suite of programs that is totally free, safe and convenient to use, try Portable Apps. I just tested Portable Apps, and think it’s cool. The best part is it can be carried all over the place, and used anytime, and anywhere, with any computer that has a USB port.… Read More »