The official Adsense blog has a pointer informing us that the Google Sitemaps service has a handy extra feature that lets webmasters view statistics on their websites from Google’s perspective.
By just creating a Sitemaps account and uploading an empty HTML file to verify you own the website, Google provides statistics about the Pagerank distribution across […]
Google has released an official “Add to Google” button for bloggers to put on their sites, that lets their readers subscribe to the blog feed in Google’s RSS Reader or the Personalised Google.
The buttons are similar to the ubiquitous Add to My Yahoo! images which proliferated across the web back in 2004, and it […]
Like many others eager to try out Google’s new traffic-tracking service, I added the Google Analytics javascript to my sites yesterday, and was informed that I had added it correctly and my stats would begin to appear in twelve hours.
However, it’s now 27 hours later and I’m still seeing no stats, a problem a lot […]
Google have finally made the Urchin Web Analytics technology they acquired back in March a free product for all.
The newly launched Google Analytics service allows web site owners track exactly how visitors found their sites and how they interact with them. The service is sure to be a major threat to the current stable […]
A new beta search tool has been posted up on Yahoo’s Next website, the showcase site for their new products.
Instant Search is an AJAX-based interface for Yahoo search that lets you do a search and go straight to your destination without ever having to see a results page - as you type in the search […]
Users of the woefully slow, spam-ridden Technorati will be happy to learn that Google have just announced their first foray into the world of blog search.
Blogger.com users won’t have missed the prominent addition of Google Blog Search on the dashboard page that allows you to “Search blogs from all over the web”, not just Blogger-hosted […]
A surprising rumour has hit the blogosphere that Google may acquire the ubiquitous news service Reuters.
The story feels far-fetched, and John Battelle has posted on why he’s treating this one with scepticism:
I mean, what on earth would the Google culture DO with Reuters? Really, I’ve dealt with both companies extensively, I can’t imagine a worse […]
A lawsuit Microsoft filed after one of their executives defected to Google has revealed MS CEO Steve Ballmer really, really doesn’t like Google.
Executive Kai-Fu Lee jumped the Microsoft ship for Google in July, prompting MS to file the lawsuit, arguing that Lee was in violation of a one-year non-compete agreement because he could pass Microsoft […]
Business 2.0 has an interesting report speculating that Google may have a secret plan to roll out free Wi-Fi access to everyone in America.
The basis for the report is the fact that Google have been buying up literally miles and miles of unused fibre optic cable at bargain-bin prices. Add some super-fast connections it has […]
Google have used their official blog to announce that, because of concerns by authors of copyrighted books, the company will not scan any more in-copyright books for its Google Print programme until November.
The Google Print initiative was launched late last year, its aim to make the wealth of knowledge contained in the libraries of the […]
The counter seen by millions every day on the Google homepage has been suddenly overshadowed by the company’s rival, Yahoo!.
Yahoo! yesterday announced they now index over 20 billion items, comprised of 19.2 billion Web pages, 1.6 billion images and 50 million + audio and video files.
Google claims an index of 11 billion items.
The quality of […]
The AP is reporting that Google is punishing tech news site C|NET by not speaking to any of its reporters for one year.
The source of Google’s anger is a July article that pointed out how easy it is to find a person’s private details with the search engine. The big mistake however was using […]
When news emerged that Google would be launching it’s own media player, excitement rose that Windows Media Player would have a serious competitor from the top Internet firm.
But I know personally I was disappointed when I found out Google’s version of the open-source VLC was restricted to playing clips embedded on Video.Google.com.
Norwegian hacker Jon Lech […]
