by Prakash Rangarajan on September 14, 2009
For all those who are gung-ho about Twitter real time search results, however buggy it might be, here is a wake up call. Search behemoth Google maybe has it all too, just that they are not as close as can be. Even when they enhanced the search time frame in May, the minimum option was the past 24hours, hardly in the scale of Twitter. Yet, you can get search results right upto the last minute and second by changing the search parameters on the address bar as Ran Geva of the Omligi Blog has found out.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on August 30, 2007
Tech blogger and former MS employee Robert Scoble has done a Nostradamus predicting that Mahalo, Facebook & Techmeme can put the curtains on Google as far as search is concerned. His latest hyperbole unfortunately does’nt pass much muster.
- Number One, Mahalo by itself a dmoz clone whose goal is to human-write the top 20,000 search terms does’nt have the scalability that Google has. They simply cant capture the loooong tail of search and to know that more that a quarter of Google queries are completely new just shows where Mahalo is going to go kaput.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on June 14, 2007
Vanessa Fox, Head Operations of WebMaster Central has bid goodbye to Google. Zillow, a real estate search engine will be her new lair. Google will definitely miss her presence since along with Matt Cutts, she has been one their pro-active public faces with a positive halo.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on June 12, 2007
In a bid to offset privacy concerns and improve its privacy protection ratings, Search behemoth Google has agreed to cut down retention of user web search histories to 18 months from 24. This move apparently would mean that search information would be made anonymous after a year and a half.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on June 3, 2007
Feedburner, the popular RSS feed service provider has finally been acquired by Google. It lays to rest all speculation regarding the imminent acquisition. For Google, it was more a question of when than why. So feedburner rss feeds will now include contextual targeted ads, the sole reason why feedburner came under the Google scanner.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on May 16, 2007
There are no two doubts about the fact that Google Earth is one of the coolest things on the internet right now. There are not many in the web space who dont know about Google Earth now. From kindergarten to commerce, the Google Earth fever has left none untouched. GE is one new age tool that awaits further exploitation.
Start clicking, zoom, hover and pronto, you just reach where you want to be.The first thing that I did and I presume that every one does when they log into Google Earth is to search for their residence location. Thanks to the data collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the digital elevation model (DEM) was made possible. And this means fantastic views of anyplace on earth, anywhere, anytime, and that too in 3-Dimensional format. Fantasies can’t get any better.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on April 2, 2007
Checking backlinks to your website does’nt get more easier than this. Google now offers website owners a new improved way to find some insight on where all your backlinks come from. It gives a fair picture of your link building efforts as also helps you find natural links that can acrue as a result of useful content on your web presence.
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