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- Controlling crawling and indexing now documented on code.google.com
Do you know how Google's crawler, Googlebot, handles conflicting directives in your robots.txt file? Do you know how to prevent a PDF file from being indexed? Do you know Googlebot’s favorite song? The answers to these questions (except for the last ...
- Ajax Forms - JQuery
JQuery is a very flexible tool for managing form data. There is a plugin that allows JQuery to manage form data passing this data using AJAX. This Javascript plugin can be downloaded free from: http://malsup.com/jquery/form/ I highly recommend re...
- Google Adds Microdata Support For Rich Snippets
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced a third markup language supported for Rich Snippets. In addition to microformats and RDFa support, Google has added microdata support, which is part of the HTML5 specification. Here is an example look at M...
- Microsoft Starts Over in Phone Software
BARCELONA — The frenetic pace of the mobile phone industry has forced some of the technology world’s largest players to make a break with the past. Microsoft, Intel and Nokia — all leaders in their respective markets — have struggled to capi...
- Apple’s new iPad seen as a game-changing ‘breakthrough’
The Apple 'iPad,' a new tablet computing device, is shown in this publicity photo from Apple released to Reuters on Wednesday. Photograph by: Apple Inc. handout, Reuters VANCOUVER — Apple’s new iPad is a game changer for publishing,...
- Quickly Find the Tab You Need in FireFox
It’s like a disease: I always have plenty of tabs open in my FireFox and sometimes it is getting too difficult to control. I keep tabs open if I want to give something more attention later the same day or if I want not to forget to include the lin...
- Top Google Apps in 2009
Here's a list of my favorite Google services that were launched or were significantly improved in 2009. 10. Google Public DNS - a DNS resolution system that doesn't offer too many features, but it's free and fast. Very fast. 9. Google Fast Flip -...
- Google Chrome OS Event
Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for...
- Google Earth iPhone App 2.0 Available Soon
A new version of Google Earth for the iPhone is due soon, and among its new features is one with a personal touch: the ability to see maps you’ve created and/or saved in Google Maps. To make this happen, the new Google Earth iPhone app will add the a...
- Show Week Numbers in Google Calendar
Google Calendar's gallery of interesting calendars lets you add some useful features: show week numbers, the day of the week, sunrise and sunset time for your location. Some of these features should be available as options because they're difficul...
- Digging into Google Analytics for Mobile Applications
Last week, Google Analytics expanded to offer reporting features for mobile applications on the iPhone and Android. But how does it work for mobile applications (or parts of mobile apps) that don't render HTML pages? Google says mobile app developer...
- Gmail Labs
Matt Cutts, a power Gmail user and a Google engineer shows which features of Gmail Labs he has enabled in his account.
- Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions
A recent Chromium build added a feature that converts user scripts into extensions. Until now, Google's browser didn't provide an interface for adding and managing user scripts, so you had to manually copy the scripts to a folder. "Lots of users sti...
- Google Gets Patent For Search Results Based on Query, Click Behavior
Bill Slawski reports on a new Google patent that manipulates search results based on query patterns and click results. As Bill explains Google can track when people search for a few related terms and then click on a specific page and develop aggregated...
- Facebook Platform Live Status Makes Life Easier for Developers
Taking a cue from Google, whose Apps Status Dashboard is showing whether some of their applications are having stability issues, Facebook has launched Platform Live Status, a tool that can save developers a lot of headache. It shows whether the Face...
- Google Music Search 2.0 Launches
Saying that it wants to bring music fans “closer to your favorite artists,” Google has added a new Music Search OneBox to its search results. The new OneBox includes content from partner sites such as MySpace, Pandora, Lala and others, and lets...
- Google Maps Navigation for Android
One of the most requested features for Google Maps Mobile was to add turn-by-turn navigation. In the past, this wasn't possible because of the licensing fees that had to be paid for each user of the navigation system. Now that Google no longer uses dat...
- 5 Useful Reverse Domain IP Checking Tools
There are a lot of people who are sure domain IP address as well as domain IP neighbors have nothing to do with SEO. I’ve been in SEO long enough to be sure in only one thing: there are only a few very basic theories we thing we can be sure about. Mo...
- Windows 7 Launch: Plain and Simple
It was easy in, easy out, and over in an hour. Today's Windows 7 launch in New York went off without a hitch--or a software crash--but without the hoopla that has heralded new versions of the Windows operating since Windows 95 debuted in 1995 to the tu...
- Microsoft - a fresh start with Windows 7
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. finally got its chance to reboot its reputation Thursday, launching a new edition of Windows that it hopes will encourage more PC buyers to get back into stores. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer celebrated the arrival of Windo...
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