http://www.igniq.com/tech Tech news stories and links Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=31 I noticed a very interesting thread on one of my favourite sites, Brett Tabke’s Webmasterworld, in which he has decided to completely ban all search engine robots from the site with a robots.txt file. This means no pages from Webmasterworld will be findable in Yahoo, Google, MSN or any other legitimate ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=30 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=29 Just days after the shaky release of Google Analytics, Google have announced one of their more curious offerings is now available, albeit this time under a Beta label. I have to admit I was initially puzzled and still am in a way by Google Base - it’s purpose doesn’t jump out ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=28 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=27 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=26 Ask.com have revealed the famous Jeeves butler is to be phased out completely and removed from the site. In a statement, the company explained that Jeeves is giving the impression to searchers that the only service Ask offers is the ability to perform a search query with a straightforward question; less ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=25 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=24 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 ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=23 Samsung have made a bold announcement that the world is set to enter a “digital paper age” with the introduction of a 16 gigabit flash memory chip. According to the company, devices like CDs and hard disks are set to disappear as flash memory dominates the information age: . “In the same way ... http://www.igniq.com/tech/?p=22