Tag: google
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Google Talk
Had a quick moment to play around with googles new instant messaging service. It seems really nice and clean, with none of the “fluff” other Instant Messaging programs have. I’ve not tried the actual calling of people yet as my mic isn’t working properly but then it’s easier to type anyway. One thing missing that I can […]
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Sitemaps
Google have released yet another beta, this ones called Sitemaps, it’s basically an xml file on your website which helps google make better use of theirs and your resources when spidering your site. Danny Sullivan has a more indepth review of Sitemaps. Michael Nguyen has created some php code to generate wordpress Sitemaps dynamically. I’ve now extended this so […]
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Google speed-up
Google have just announced a prefetching feature found in mozilla based browsers such as firefox or camino. Basically if you’re using a mozilla based browser then google will start downloading the first search result in the background while you’re on the results page. This should give a little speed boost, this would be a useful feature to add to other websites as […]
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Google News
Google have recently revamped their news service. It now features a “customisability” mode which lets you rearrange the order of the news categories and the number of items that appear in each category. They do this by dragging and dropping news category names around a little faux page, once you save your changes they reload the pieces […]
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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search (or GDS as it’s becoming known) has just been fully released. I reviewed the beta a while ago. The new version is much the same to most people, with the most notable addition being the ability to search more kinds of files. However google have included APIs for developers to create plug-ins for different filetypes […]
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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop is the latest thing out of googles beta program, predictably it puts Microsofts Windows searching capabilities in the shade. It’s a small (~400k) download. It operates in a similar fashion to Microsofts search in that it builds up an index and then searches that index. Unlike Microsofts tool, it builds up the index […]
Dean Sas 