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Google Chrome - first impressions

I am impressed. Right now, no other browser is running on my laptop except for this shiny new one from Google, which is Google Chrome.
Download and installation was a breeze and in minutes, I was able to import my bookmarks, browsing history and other data from Firefox into Google Chrome and I just love every [...]

1 Trillion URLs - Google’s answer to Cuil?

Since the launching of Cuil has created much buzz in the internet, with many prominent netizens giving the newest search engine on the block positive reviews, there’s this consistent talk that it could give Google some serious competition.
After all, most of the folks behind Cuil are former Googlers and so this is something definitely [...]

The end for Google AdSense Referrals

Just received an email from the Google AdSense team announcing that they’re “retiring the Google AdSense Referrals program” by the end of August 2008.

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus [...]

Photo hosting: Zooomr or Picasaweb albums?

Ever since I started using photos to enhance my blog posts I’ve wanted to use one photo hosting service that provides me with the following:
1) plenty of space to store photos, 2) reliability, 3) the ability to create different sizes of photos such as thumbnails, smaller versions etc., 4) creation of folders or albums [...]

Google plays Big Brother with Web History

The reality TV format has been popular throughout the world, the Big Brother franchise has been successful one and has raked in millions if not billions for its owners.
However, the reality TV has also caused much debate about privacy, morals, ethics and culture. Call it whatever you like, shows like this are based on voyeurism. [...]

Google Apps Referrals - Another prank?

Last night I saw something a bit exciting in my inbox. It was an update from the Google AdSense Team announcing that AdSense publishers can now earn more by referring users to sign-up for Google Apps, those nifty free web services like Gmail for your own domain, Docs and Spreadsheet, Calendar etc. via the Google [...]


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