Android Won’t Take Over The World
Friday, November 6th, 2009
DTN protocol will be used with Google's OS to increase interplanetary communication.
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
How Google Handles Parked Domain Placeholder Pages
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who was trying to figure out why his site was not coming up for a search on its own name. After some review, Googler, JohnMu, said the site has recently shown a placeholder page from a web hosting company or domain name registrar. These are also known as parked domains, where a domain is purchased but there is currently no web site on that domain. Many registrars or hosting companies place placeholder pages on those new domains. Clearl
4 New APIs: Wine, Whois and Web Site Monitoring
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Since our recent update on new APIs like Google Sidewiki, online storage, content analysis, and social search , we’ve been adding about 10 new APIs per week to our directory. Four of these news APIs include an API that lets you add a shopping cart to any web site, an API to access web site monitoring data, a handy API for accessing the Internet whois service to get data in XML or JSON, and an API that can lets you get data on over 40,000 wines. Here are more details on each of these new web ser
Google Search Algorithm Patent Application Creates Spring Buzz!
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Google applied for a patent on their ranking algorithm as of 15 months ago on December 31, 2003 and that application was posted on March 31st at the US Patent Office. It got the discussion forums buzzing this weekend. Even though I had substantial work to do and was behind on a project, I couldn’t resist the temptation to read the very long 14,000 word, 45 page application and see what it could mean to the volatile world of search. So I tripped on over to the the US Patent & Trademark Offi
Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Some web hosting companies have now taken it to a new low: they are monetizing (making money) from your web site without your knowledge. Web hosts are now hijacking their customers’ 404 error pages and putting up a slew of paid ads: advertisements, when clicked, make the company money. And most web site owners don’t even know that this is happening to them. It could be happening to you, on your web site, and you don’t even know it. It looks like this: Google recently was caught hijack
