23.Feb.2010 The death of Internet Explorer 6!
Aten Design Group is up to some fun these days. They’re inviting you to the funeral services of IE6. Here’s what the “invitation” looks like.
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at [...]
11.Feb.2010 Google will Build Experimental Broadband Network
Move is in line with lobbying for National Broadband Plan.
Google has announced plans to build high-speed broadband networks in small trial areas across the U.S. The goal is to spur the development of higher-speed networks in the U.S. While the States have had a definite impact on Internet in terms of [...]
18.Nov.2009 Google URLs replaced with breadcrumb links in search results
Google has announced this morning that for certain queries they will be showing site hierarchies in the search results rather than URL’s string. On first inspection I don’t like the system because in all the examples Google has provided the keyword rich product URL is removed and replaced with a more generic category level keyword.
For [...]
13.Nov.2009 Google releasing Chrome OS next week?
There’s no doubt that many are anticipating the release of Google’s Chrome OS. In fact, we’ve seen several “alleged” screenshots and what-have-you’s relating to the Chrome OS before. But none of these proved to be official though. And we were told that Google Chrome OS was not to become available until fall of next year. [...]
11.Nov.2009 Google Latitude – Location History and Location Alerts
Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It’s Google’s Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts. Location History tracks where you have been at any point in time, while Location Alerts notifies you whenever you are near a friends location – that way you can easily contact that [...]
10.Nov.2009 Google Caffeine, New Version of Google Search?
Back in August, we were shocked to learn that Google was working on a new version of its search engine. The secret project, known officially as Google Caffeine, wouldn’t change the face or design of the Google search engine, but would instead provide an overhaul of the architecture of Google’s web search that would improve [...]
09.Nov.2009 Murdoch from News Corporation: We’ll probably remove our sites from Google’s index
Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content strategy .
When Murdoch and other senior News Corp lieutenants have criticised aggregators such as Google for taking a free ride on its content, commentators have questioned why the company doesn’t simply [...]
07.Nov.2009 Google Analytics on desktop? Try Trakkboard.
If you work with multiple Google accounts to Track many different Google Analytics profiles then you already know that its a very hard process. Signing in and out of various Google accounts multiple times in a day can be a real pain if you are dealing with a lot of websites of your own or [...]
06.Nov.2009 Google News want new sitemap file.
Big news for publishers in the Google News index. Inbal from Google announced in a Google News Help thread that in six months, Google will stop supporting the old News Sitemaps format and require you to switch over to the new format.
Inbal said:
Although we will support your current Google News Sitemap during the transition period [...]
05.Nov.2009 Retirement of MSN Bot 1.1
As MSNBot 2.0b enters full-scale production, they will retire the previous generation bot, MSNBot 1.1. By the end of the first week in November, you will no longer see the following user agent in your referrer logs: msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) The only Bing user agent you will see in your logs from this point forward will [...]
