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Wednesday, November 14 2007

This is Italy: a useless Country with no future

Welcome to Italy

Android, the Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications, has just released its SDK to public. The Google sponsored open source software for mobiles is running a Android Developer Challenge to promote it around the web. Fact is Italy is out of the games, this is because the heavy, baroque and useless bureaucracy of a Country stuck in middle ages won't allow Google to run the challenge in an acceptable time range.

Saturday, September 29 2007

Google Maps, a small step forward web standards

Google Maps quite new wizard to embed a map on your site enable users to copy and past the code (you can also chose among a couple of customization options) directly on your web pages. The following is a sample code obtained this way (>>>> signal returns for formatting purposes):

Friday, September 28 2007

Google AdSense error message: All the informations a user should have in two neat sentences

My AdSense account is experiencing problems and I can't access my reports or any other page of the AdSense web. The following is the message Google AdSense is returning on a two lines message.

The AdSense logo, the my user name (in this case my Gmail address, Last Login time log, the Log Out link, the Help link and a Search AdSense Help input form are the elements provided in the header.

The footer offers links to the AdSense Blog, the AdSense Forum, the Privacy Policy, the Terms & Conditions, the Program Policies.

The following is the only info given in the main part of the page:

Error

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.

Everything you need to know, the easy and clear way

What's going on?

Error

Wednesday, September 26 2007

Google My World: Not Found

Google My World: Not Found.

Tuesday, September 25 2007

Google is almost the only player in the search game in France

comScore a global leader in measuring the digital world announces qSearch

qSearch 2.0 is the First Service to Report Search Activity for France and the World.

Thanks to the comScore's press release announcing qSearch, we have a peak on the search engines market share in France (data does not take in consideration access from Internet cafes or the like, and mobile devices such as PDAs.)

Wednesday, September 19 2007

From the Authors@Google series, mr. Avinash Kaushik on Web Analytics 2.0

Excellent, and sometimes hilarious, episode of Authors@Google. This one features mr. Avinash Kaushik, of Occam's Razor fame, on Web Analytics 2.0

If you are wondering what Web Analytics 2.0 means, here there's Kaushik definition from his blog:

Wednesday, September 19 2007

Google Ads wants you to search for advertisement

Discovered through the pages of this blog, a brand new Google AdSense item. Basically it allows users to search for advertisement, that is users are asked to enter a search term into a classic search input box, hit the button (this having some kind of rendering problem) and land on a result page made up of ads. Sounds stupid, but who knows...

See the following image and video to find out what I'm talking about here.

Friday, August 31 2007

Google Suggest: an in depth A-Z analysis of the offered suggestions for your SEO strategies and general web knowledge - part II

Let's have a look at what are the categories Google suggestions belong to.

Categories & sub categories

The following are the categories I distributed the suggestions to, those are further

Online Shopping

The following are all the suggestions belonging to an online shop web site, that is a web that offers the chance to buy online whatever their business is.

  • amazon
  • apple
  • argos
  • amazon.com
  • best buy
  • bed bath and beyond
  • ...

Monday, August 20 2007

Google Suggest: an in depth A-Z analysis of the offered suggestions for your SEO strategies and general web knowledge

There's a nice Ajax-powered feature Google gives their search engine users, it's called search suggestion and it's available (correct me if I'm wrong here) either using the Google Toolbar for either Internet Explorer or Firefox. or visiting the relevant Google Suggest page on Google Labs.

Search smarter with instant suggestions
as you type in the search box

What it does is suggesting a term after you type a character in the search text input area, just one character is enough to activate this feature.

And the Google Suggestions are...

What exactly are the suggestions Google push you? Let's have a look in alphabetical order.

Google Suggestions for A

If you enter the a letter Google returns the following suggestions:

  • amazon (489,000,000)
  • argos (10.700,000)
  • aol (136,000,000)
  • autotrader (3,850,000)
  • aol.com (41,600,000)
  • apple (231,000,000)
  • american airlines (32,900,000)
  • amazon.com (210,000,000)
  • auto trader (2,900,000)
  • addicting games (1,800,000)

Tuesday, April 24 2007

SEO on a budget: save your money and rank 1st among 100,000,000 results on Google

As previously posted here, SEO, SEM, and a lot of vaporware, you can save a lot of money and obtain way more results if you implement your own SEO strategy instead of putting your business in the hands of someone's not even good at doing her own web site.

I'm targetting this post mainly at small/medium business with a limited budget available to promote their online presence. Obviously the following is a free and easy approach you should consider even if you are Fortune 500 company and plenty of money to waste. Also consider this applies mainly to Google, but let's be honest, there's just one search engine out there.

Saturday, April 14 2007

How to add a Google AJAX Blog Bar to your blog (part I - the wizard approach)

Feed your blog with the Blog Bar

A great tool offered by Google is the Blog Bar, a Google Blog Search object you are free to customize and embed in your own web pages. Let's have a look at how to actually embed it in your web pages and how to adapt and refine its searches for your own purposes.

Thursday, January 25 2007

I'm a problem solver and Google knows that

I'm a problem solver and Google knows that

Wednesday, October 11 2006

Writely is no more, long live to Google Docs

Writely is no more, long live to Google Docs

Wednesday, September 27 2006

Belgian Chocolate, and cookies

Belgian Chocolate, and cookies

Saturday, September 23 2006

When talking about Belgians, the French have a clue

When talking about Belgians, the French have a clue

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