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Google Topeka

lopau — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:08:32 +0000

As a sign of gratitude to city of Topeka, Kansas renaming their city to Google. Google on behalf has renamed the company to Topeka as officially announced on their blog.

Go ahead Topeka(google) it.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html

Happy April 1st everyone.

First Mobile Post

lopau — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:39:18 +0000

Just got a new phone yesterday after almost five years of sticking with my old trusty slow Nokia 6680. Now I’ve finally found a reason to buy one. I didn’t get an iPhone but instead got myself an HTC Hero with Andriod 1.5 OS. So far I’ve been impressed. I installed WordPress for Andriod and this is my official first post using the app. The journey to start learning mobile development has begun.

Here is a shot I took with the cam.

Google Adwords Pending/Under Review

lopau — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:45:03 +0000

Seems like I’m not the only one experiencing this issue with running a new ad on Google Adwords. Previously when I run an ad it would get approved in less than 5 minutes. Now it’s more than 24 hours and my ad is still not running. The ad is even a simple one, we just wanted to run an ad so we can quickly get feedback for a survey we are conducting.

Here is a link to other users affected by this “approval system” for new ads on Google.

http://www.google.de/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=2ca794df25bdd38f&hl=en

I wonder why Google is actively promoting Google Adwords, I even get emails for free 2K to start using the ad system and I see banners everywhere, but they are soo missing a lot more potential clients on the delay on their approval system.

It’s almost close to 48 hours. I hope Google sees there is a big issue with their ad approval system.

Google Images now with more Search Options

lopau — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:10:09 +0000

If your a fan of Google products, you may want to know that Google Images search has been upgraded, it now has the feature to make more reliable results for your searches, you can search by color, type of pictures like clip art, line drawing, photo, face, etc. Plus you can search by size. An amazing upgrade. Things keep getting better and better with Google products.

Happy Birthday Gmail

lopau — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:51:00 +0000

Gmail is 5 years old. Way back 2004 existing email solutions like yahoo and hotmail were the only good options. Thanks to revolutionizing what online emails are. Huge storage, ajax features, chat, feeds, etc… Looking forward to more enhancements in the future.

5 Years of Gmail.

The Spirit of Times- Zietgeist 2008

lopau — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:59 +0000

The year is almost coming to an end and Google has released their 2008 Zietgeist – or known as the spirit of times (the most sought or searched keywords in Google Search Engine).

Fastest Rising (Global)

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login
4. tuenti
5. heath ledger
6. obama
7. nasza klasa
8. wer kennt wen
9. euro 2008
10. jonas brothers

And for the Philippines

Fastest Rising

1. cabal
2. y8.com
3. psp
4. comments
5. emo
6. friendster.com
7. naruto
8. multiply
9. mozilla
10. realize lyrics

More information here:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html#top

Firefox Update 3.5.2

Google Chrome browser now available

lopau — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:49:40 +0000

I just downloaded and installed Google Chrome and it rocks! Super fast and lightweight.

Faster than IE 7, can’t tell though for IE 8 Beta. Compared to my Firefox though which is loaded with addons, Google Chrome breezes. Very easy to use, no cluttered toolbar and first feature I saw is the thumbnails for searching your history.

A step up to another level for simplicity and usability on browsers. Big ups again to the Google Team.

Google Calendar Improvements

lopau — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:06:23 +0000

I just love Google applications and how the Google team constantly improves their product. The Google Calendar has some small improvements worth mentioning that really boost productivity and improve its usability. Really its the small things that matter.

Emailing guests – You can now select guests based on their response status or pick-and-choose them individually with checkboxes.

Adding a friend’s calendar – It’s much easier now: you simply start typing a name in the “Add a friend’s calendar” box and we’ll match against your address book. Click the name, and the calendar will be added. Previously you had so many steps to take to do this.

Dragging to create new events – New “gutter” feature for dragging into a cluttered events list. Small improvement but beneficial.

Flexible reminder times – Now you can have a reminder schedule up to the last minute.

Definitely a big ups to the Google Team for these improvements.

July’s startup buzz Knol and Cuil

lopau — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:01:27 +0000

Last July, a new product from Google named Knol similar to Wikipedia was launched, a social content sharing network. The criteria for articles and to be an editor is more tougher than in Wikipedia but you can expect great content. You can also earn online in Knol for you can put Adsense on the articles posted, similar to how you do it with blogspot. The more traffic your article generates the more possibility of earning through clicks on ads. Knol has already gotten alot of backlinks, new and likely to be a hit.

Also new on the block is startup search engine Cuil (pronounced “Cool”). Searches more pages 3 times more than Google and 10 times more than Microsoft as they say. But my blog page hasn’t been crawled yet after having it submitted to be crawled likely because of the amount of submission they got. Well lets see how it goes.

Google Page Rank and increase site traffic

lopau — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:39:10 +0000

After two months from launching my blog, Google gave me Page Rank 2, sweet! I managed to have an increase in site traffic with some starter blog post and getting linked in high traffic sites, my starter posts were pretty simple and were just to get my feet wet on blogging.

Increase in site traffic and having a high Page Rank or PR are almost synonymous. You need to do some SEO to build traffic to your site, one method of doing is to have incoming links, when you have incoming links from a site with high PR, there is portion of PR that gets relayed to your site, depending on how many outgoing links that site has, there is the portion relayed to you which is computed to build your Page Rank. Page Rank algorithm is always talked about and there are dozens of theories on it for it is constantly being changed and improved. Some say if you have high traffic on your site already you don’t need to have a high Page Rank. I found this great indepth article outlining Google’s Page Rank.

Google Pagerank what do we really know about it

With the new PR ranking I recently got, time to get my feet wet again by moving on the next experiment, alot of people started blogging to earn online or make money online. I’m targeting revenues from Adsense served on the site. Serving relevant ads on your site and same time having quality posts relevant to those high paying keywords is still a science to me and a work in progress. That would be my next attempt, write quality post relevant to Adsense keywords. There are a lot of online tools to find relevant keywords to blog, for one there is Keyword Tool External from Google which replaced Google Sandbox. There are dozens of tips and techniques, but the real tip is to experiment on one method, analyze and then try another method till you get successful results. You won’t know what works until you try but stick to the Adsense policy so you won’t get blacklisted.