Google to track mouse movements to deliver relevant results
Google has been granted a patent to a technology that will track mouse movements to deliver relevant results. The title is “System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring”. Here is how the abstract for the patent describes it: A method and system of modulating search result relevancy use various types of [...]
Even Yo Momma can now make apps for Android
Using Google App Inventor now anyone can create an android app. Google says that App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic. Now many [...]
After related searches, Google displaying related ads
It has been quite a while since Google have started displaying related searches for the keywords you have searched. I just noticed that they are showing related ads (Sponsored Links) for the keywords you searched. It is a interesting feature for Adwords advertisers who can target users searching Google using related keywords This might be [...]
Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension
As you know HTTPS sites are secure sites and your transaction with them is safe from eavesdropping. Google recently launched Google ssl for this purpose hwre your search is secure. Now Electronic Search Frontier has developed an add on for firefox browser that will help you surf the web in HTTPS. Sites like the New [...]
Google’s loss is Yahoo, Ask.com’s gain
According to advertising network Chitika, when Googlers fail to find what they are searching for , they move on to yahoo, Ask.com to search for it. The interesting part is that Googlers prefer Ask more than much fancied Microsoft’s Bing. Yahoo grabs nearly 50% of the share while ask.com 30%. Bing manages only 16%. However, [...]
Google is using you
We all Google. You very well know that Google collects search keywords anonymously to give search suggestions to a particular region or worldwide. More than that they use it to help advertisers using adwords to get the list of keywords they can advertise on. Well this is acceptable. But due you know (via Datamation) that [...]
Finally the time has come for you to learn basics of web designing and programming
Free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress have been a boon to many people who had little or no knowledge about web designing an programming. It was just add gadgets/widgets or search Google to find minor hacks or tweaks for things these platforms didn’t provide any direct help. However, this is going to change. The [...]
Google using Facebook to advertise Chrome
More people visited Facebook than Google, gaining the No 1 spot in the US the previous week, according to hitwise. Google does not minds that as long as these people are using Chrome to visit the site. Google whose revenues comes from advertising dollars by means of cpc and cpm ads from its search results [...]
Is Apple becoming the new Microsoft? Is Google the Good Guy
Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins Jr. has accused Apple Inc of having a strategy of little more than “zero-sum maneuvering versus hated rivals.” Critics had claimed on the very day of iPad’s launch that it is a DRM haven. He argues that Apple’s decision to ship it’s latest product iPad without Flash is an attempt [...]
Get paid to find bugs in Chrome, Firefox
Google in its Chrome Blog has announced rewards to developers who discover and report the bugs to Google. This is in line with Mozilla’s Security Bug Bounty Program where you can earn US$ 500 for reporting a new bug in the latest version of FireFox , ThunderBird and other software. Google’s cash reward like Mozilla’s [...]
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