Blog Category: Google

Gmail Priority Inbox Now Available

1 September, 2010 (09:29) | Google

Gmail has a new feature called priority inbox that will let you tell Gmail what email messages are important and which ones are not. A lot of people’s email inbox get overloaded with emails and until now you could star emails and filter them with labels. Gmail’s spam filtering system gets does do a good job at understanding what is junk email, however Gmail has never been able to identify

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Google Real Time Search Has A New Home

27 August, 2010 (08:51) | Google

Real time search has been a hot topic over the last few years since Twitter has taken the spotlight on gathering information on the web as it happens. With Google being the #1 search engine in the world they have been trying to improve their search platform to enable real time search results. Google has now given their real time search feature a new home on

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Dragging Files From Gmail

24 August, 2010 (15:45) | Google

Dragging files around from one application to another makes it real easy to organize and be more productive. Google is continually improving their Gmail and Google Apps products to improve productivity.

Google Apps has now added the ability to not only attach files by dragging them into Gmail, they have no added the ability to drag files out of Gmail to your desktop or other folders. Right now this ability is only available in Google Chrome.

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GMail Updates Its Contacts Features

11 August, 2010 (09:00) | Google

Gmail has made some new changes recently and the big one is the change they have made to the contacts. A lot of people have been asking Google to update the way Gmail shows its contacts and features of how to show, sort and edit contacts. Now the contacts in Gmail is more

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YouTube Allows 15 Minute Uploads

2 August, 2010 (09:56) | Google

YouTube has made serious changes and strides since Google acquired them and has even become more popular. YouTube has announced that they are increasing the video time allowed from 10 minutes to

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Google In The Government?

27 July, 2010 (10:10) | Google

Google is continually in the news and expanding their services. Google has announced that they are opening up a new edition of their Google Apps. Google Apps for Government has new features that incorporate

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Have You Gone Google?

9 July, 2010 (10:33) | Google

There is a phrase that has been floating around the internet community and that is “Have you gone Google”? Going Google means switching over to Google Apps. Applications are becoming the norm lately as they are all programmed with the cloud in mind. This means that it is

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Google Voice Opened To Everyone

28 June, 2010 (12:41) | Google

Google has officially announced that they are opening the Google Voice system to be open to everyone. Google Voice has thus far only been open to those who requested an invitation as Google has been making tweaks and adjustments to the service.

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Google Caffeine Is Officially Live

10 June, 2010 (10:02) | Google

Google has been working on overhauling their algorithm in how they crawl, index and rank web content. The new algorithm is called Google Caffeine and has been in the works for quite a while. Google said they would be

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Misspellings Caught In Google Suggest

7 June, 2010 (14:20) | Google

Google has made several changes in order to help a user find what they may be looking for and one of those major changes was the launch of Google Suggest which would provide suggestions as you were typing making it very helpful to find things faster. This week Google has made an update to

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Customize Google’s Home Page

4 June, 2010 (08:47) | Google

Google has now made it available for anyone to customize the Google home page. Google came out with iGoogle in 2005 and was the product which would allow users to customize their own Google home page with certain widgets and modules. Google has recently announced that they

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Google Maps Community Editing Needs Approval

26 May, 2010 (11:26) | Google

Google has announced that they are no longer going to allow community editing on Google Maps go live until after review. This means that spammers and others cannot

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CEO’s Talk About Google TV

24 May, 2010 (15:42) | Google

Google TV is the new thing that is being talked about in the entertainment industry and at Google I/O all of the CEO’s of the major companies involved sat down to talk about the new wave of television. Included on the panel was the CEO of Google,

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Google’s Reasonable Surfer Patent

18 May, 2010 (09:03) | Google

Patent Filed

On June 17, 2004 Google filed a patent entitled “Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data” to improve the way that they value links that point from one document to another.

Here is a quick synopsis:

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Google MayDay Sending Less LongTail Traffic

14 May, 2010 (14:46) | Google

The Google May Day update has been all the rage over the last couple of weeks as many webmasters have been noticing traffic drops to their sites for long tail referrals from Google. A long tail phrase is anything that is 3 words or more. Some webmasters have reported numbers as high as

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Google Changes Search Results Layout

5 May, 2010 (15:06) | Google

Google has been playing with changing the way they change their search results interface for quite awhile. Today they have officially made the change to the public.

Here is a screenshot of the new look:

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Google Places Is Now Live

20 April, 2010 (09:05) | Google

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Google is becoming more LOCAL and they have made some serious strides in making their Local Business Center better. Last September Google launched their Place Pages allowing businesses to claim their place page and make changes. Today Google is now launching

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Google Changes Its Name To Topeka

1 April, 2010 (07:32) | Google

Google has already gone through one name change as they were originally called Backrub. Google has now officially released that they have changed their name to

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Google Acquires Picnik, Online Photo Editing

2 March, 2010 (09:30) | Google

Google has been making a lot of moves lately as they have been acquiring several companies in order to expand their horizons. Google has recently acquired Picnik, which is an online photo editing company.

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Google Acquires Aardvark

17 February, 2010 (10:31) | Google

Google has acquired Aardvark recently and this move continues to show Google’s interest in the social search. Aardvark has been described as a social search company in which you can

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Google Launches Google Buzz – Social Networking

10 February, 2010 (08:40) | Google

Google officially launched Google Buzz Tuesday February 9th, which is a social media network within the Gmail interface. With Google Buzz you can follow people and they can follow you on what you

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Google Maps Has Personalized Search

9 February, 2010 (09:03) | Google

Google is continually pushing their personalized search service making it better for users to find things faster and more relevant to them based on past search history. This feature exists on the web search function and now it exists in the Google Maps function as well.

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Google Changing Search Results Layout?

25 January, 2010 (09:32) | Google

Google is continuing making changes in order to improve their service for users and here is something I saw that I thought I would share, Google might be playing around with changing their interface for search results.

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Google Chrome Extensions Now Available

9 December, 2009 (10:49) | Google

Google Chrome has not given people the opportunity to have addons to the browser like Firefox does. Google has now opened up Google Chrome extensions for their super fast browser.

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Google Launches Site Performance In Webmaster Tools

3 December, 2009 (14:22) | Google

Speed is on the top of the mind at Google and as part of their “Let’s make the web faster” campaign Google is continually improving the way they like speed when it comes to load times. In Google Webmaster Tools their is a new tool called

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Feedburner Integrates With Google Analytics

18 November, 2009 (09:48) | Google

Feedburner has now made it possible to track what is happening with your rss feeds in Google Analytics. Using Google Analytics you can get enormous amounts of data and now with content syndication being more and more critical internet marketing having analytics data is huge.

Feedburner is now automatically

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Google SPDY

12 November, 2009 (16:09) | Google

Google has made it well known that they have wanted the web to be faster for years. Yesterday on November 11th 2009, Google officially announced that they have been working on a research project called SPDY (pronounced speedy) which is a new application geared towards moving content across the web twice as fast.

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Google Music Launches

2 November, 2009 (10:33) | Google

Google has now officially gone into the music business by launching Google Music. Google Music has been in the works for a little over a year as Google was approached by leading music companies like Lala, Rhapsody, and Imeem who wanted to use the power of Google’s search engine.

Until now Itunes has been

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Gmail Automatic Message Translation

21 May, 2009 (14:10) | Google

Gmail is continuing to improve its services in order to become one of the foremost options when it comes to email. Many of the great things that come out of Google is because Google has to solve a problem that the company has because they are an international company.

The new automatic message translation is now another one of those things as it makes emailing those who are of another language even easier. Google is an international company with employees that come from various cultures, languages, and live in different countries.

In order for Google to operate the employees must continually speak to each other from across the world. The automatic message translation in

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Google Webmaster Tools Redesign

13 May, 2009 (07:59) | Google

The Google Webmaster Tools team has redesigned the interface of Webmaster Tools and has added some functions. This is only the start of what they are planning to do.

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Google Lime Scholarship

16 April, 2009 (08:28) | Google

Google is continually looking to improve the way they can help not only the online world with the way they gather information for their search engine, but also continually helping the offline world. Google has partnered with

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Google Integrated Sports Search

13 April, 2009 (15:02) | Google

Google is continuing to better improve the way they do real time search and that is why the social media has been a factor with real time search. Google has integrated

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Gmail April Fools Joke

2 April, 2009 (08:54) | Google

Gmail is back at it again with their April Fools joke and this year was Gmail Autopilot. Last year Gmail announced

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Google Ventures

2 April, 2009 (08:08) | Google

Google in a Recession?

27 March, 2009 (08:20) | Google

There are a lot of companies that are struggling with the way the current economy is, but is Google one of those companies struggling?

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Google Chrome Next Beta Version

19 March, 2009 (09:53) | Google

Google Chrome launched in Beta in September of 2008 on Labor Day. In December Google took off the

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Google Chrome Experiments

19 March, 2009 (09:00) | Google

Google has brought out several products and applications that have both helped themselves and internet users. Everyone in the world who has used the internet has used Google in some form or fashion. Last September Google launched

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Google Launches Chatback – Live Chat

27 February, 2009 (16:38) | Google

Want to talk with the visitors to your site? LiveChat has been one of the tools that has been out for awhile and has been expensive to website owners. On Wednesday Feb. 25th Google Talk launched a new feature called

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Gmail Outage is Over

24 February, 2009 (10:34) | Google

This morning the Gmail development team received alerts that consumers and businesses could not access their Gmail accounts worldwide.

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Google Powermeter

12 February, 2009 (14:18) | Google

Google is on a mission to help people have control over their electricity bills with a new software tool called Google Powermeter. Google has been actively pursuing their mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” and part of that is

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Google Maps “Friend” Tracking

5 February, 2009 (11:59) | Google

Google Maps is adding a new feature where you can see exactly where your

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GMAIL has new buttons

4 February, 2009 (11:40) | Google

The Gmail development team has made new buttons that appear in the top of the bar. The new buttons are designed to increase

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