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Category Archives: Search

Gooshing for a true UNIX feel

June 2, 2008 – 9:44 pm

Emily Chang pointed me to this link via Twitter.

It’s a sweet Terminal-like search engine that uses the Ajax libraries from Google. Impressive what a little CSS can do!
Check out the commands:

I might use this more than google.com for searches.

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Learn SEO from a Google webmeister

May 29, 2008 – 2:44 pm

Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without [...]

By me | Also posted in Advice, Ajax, Code, Google, Internet, Programming, Reference, SEO, Semantics, Standards, Web 3.0, YouTube, flash | Comments (5)

Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

May 29, 2008 – 9:06 am

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]

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30boxes: Organize your life.

March 25, 2007 – 2:40 pm

How organized are you? I spend a lot of time multi-tasking, especially on the Internet, and I have always wanted a central calendar to plan out my steps.
Microsoft Outlook is a pretty good calendar application, but I use Thunderbird for mail, and Sunbird isn’t really a solid schedule manager yet.

This application blows Outlook out of [...]

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Five Useful Twittering Tips

March 15, 2007 – 6:22 pm

Twitter is a growing network of real-time away messages which asks the simple question, “What are you doing?”
Here are five suggestions that I dreamed up to make your experience more fun:

Be Creative.
Try to write favorites. A lot of users recieve updates via text message or SMS. Don’t use phrases like, “I am doing [this]” or [...]

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What am I doing? Where am I? Ask my phone.

March 13, 2007 – 7:23 pm

Two new mobile services just recently caught my eye. And I have to admit, I am addicted to them.
Twitter, a two-year-old social networking site, asks one simple question, “What are you doing?”
When I first came across this site, I signed up for an account, and sparingly updated my status. I never really got into it [...]

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