How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory 

Leading up to Google's first-quarter earnings report on Apr. 17, investors couldn't have been more bearish. They had knocked the stock down 35% since the start of the year, concerned that a weak economy ... would finally hurt the search giant's advertising business. But Google ( GOOG ) defied skeptics—and the economic downturn—with a surprisingly strong showing that sent the stock soaring 20% the next day. More than anything, Google's continued prosperity is a testament to its ability to keep innovating, both in search and advertising operations and in new lines such as online office-productivity software. Many companies, says Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , can skirt downturns entirely by coming up with innovations that change the game in their industries—or create new ones. (When asked if Google's strategy would change as the economy heads into a likely recession, he replied: "What recession?") In a recent interview in a tiny meeting room next to his Mountain View (Calif.) office, Schmidt   [More...] [Less...]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google pushes into mobile phones 

Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move. The software could lead to cheaper phones as it is designed to speed up the process of ... making mobile services. The firm is working with four mobile manufacturers - Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG - but a Google branded phone was not announced. The first phones using the so-called Google "software stack" will be available in the second half of 2008. "This is going to bring the internet into cell phones in a very cool way," Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, told the Associated Press news agency. Mr Rubin's firm, called Android, was bought by Google in 2005 and the software it developed forms the basis of the new stack. Google has formed the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), made up of 34 companies, including chip manufacturers and handset makers. The move will be seen as a major competitor to Microsoft, Research in Motion, Palm and Symbian, who make the leading soft   [More...] [Less...]

RSS 

Bloggers from across the world will be able to widen their audiences from today, after Google launched a free translation service. Anyone wanting to reach foreign readers can simply download a piece of ... software from translate.google.com and add it to their blog or website. This button will then allow visitors to the site to choose which language they would like it translated into. The Google Translate service will initially be limited to 13 languages, including French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic, and will be restricted to translations from or to English. However, the search engine is hoping the service will be extended in the future. Recent research found that almost four million people in Britain regularly write a blog. "At Google we believe that the internet is about enabling access to the world's information - all of the world's information, in all of its languages," said Franz Och, a research scientist at Google. • Some 44 per cent of broadband users are being rip   [More...] [Less...]

Best Practice for Title Tags 

It's been a while since I provided some straightforward, back to basics style advice and there can be little doubt that the title tag is worthy of attention for beginners and experts alike. And so I present... ... How to Make the Best Title Tag Possible: Brand your traffic Use the title of your site or brand at the beginning or end of every title tag to help searchers know where they're going and to increase return visits. If you're struggling to find justification for this component, think of all the ad studies showing that consumers are willing to pay more for a "brand name" product than an off-brand or store brand item of the same type - apply this logic to the SERPs and you'll find that users will go further down the rankings to click on a "trusted" brand. Limit length to 65 characters (including spaces) or less There's no reason to cut off the last word and have it replaced with a "..." Note that the engines have fluctuated recently and Google, in particular, is now supporting up t   [More...] [Less...]

Google Friend Connect 

Grow traffic when friends connect on your site Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging ... more deeply with your site. Attract more visitors. Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your site. Enrich your site with social features. Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community. No programming whatsoever. Just copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest. More information... Please note: this is a preview release . Google Friend Connect is being made available to a limited number of site owners as it approaches general availability. If you are interested in participating, . You will be notified if you are approved as a partner.   [More...] [Less...]

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Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages 

Please enter a Valid URL above and click Check PR button to determine a page rank. Add Page Rank Checker Icon to a web site for free If you like this free PR checking tool and would like to see our Page ... Rank Checker icon that displays the current page rank of the pages on your web site, please copy one of the HTML codes below and paste it on your page where you want the page rank icon to appear: Disclaimer : Google search engine and PageRank algorithm are the trademarks of Google Inc. PRChecker.info is not affiliated with Google Inc., but only provides a publically available information about pagerank values of the web sites. PRChecker.info provides our services on "as is" and "as available" basis and we do not provide any guarantees regarding this service stability and/or availability.   [More...] [Less...]

Tochgraph GooglBrowser 

Getting Started Make sure you have the latest version of java, Java 1.5 Type in your search keywords or a URL, and press "Graph It!" Say "Run" when asked "Do you want to trust the signed applet ?" Disable ... popup blockers to allow launching websites.   [More...] [Less...]

Featured Firefox Extension: Listen to Music and Playlists from Gmail with Gspace 

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Store and manage music with all those extra gigabytes in your Gmail account with previously mentioned Gmail File Space extension, now known simply as Gspace. Just install ... the extension, upload some music, and then enter Player mode. From there you can create playlists from the music you've uploaded and play them in the embedded flash player. It's a bit of a hassle setting Flash to play files from Gmail (you have to change your Global Flash settings), but if you jump through the hoops it's pretty cool to be able to store music and build playlists from your Gmail account.   [More...] [Less...]

Gspace 

Want to see how Gspace works? Gspace is the FON friendly site that provides FREE Online Storage to access your files everywhere. Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With ... Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface. Listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well. Download Gspace now and transfer files between your computer and Gspace at anytime, from everywhere!   [More...] [Less...]