It’s extremely rare to see Google change anything on their homepage. Today they added a link to donation splash page for victims of the recent Myanmar disaster.
Join the recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist cyclone victims in Myanmar. Your donation to either of these organizations will help survivors of the cyclone and other [...]
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Google reaches out for Myanmar support from google.com
May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Integrated site search on Google
March 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Google have just added a search box in the snippets area for high authority sites. The box conducts a google search for keywords on the website and returns the results within Google using the ’site’ operator.
It’s not clear what the requirement is to have this added to your site’s snippet. High ranking sites which already [...]
Gmail Inbox gone ‘wonky’
February 13th, 2008 · 8 Comments
For the past few weeks my Gmail inbox has been stuck in some sort of a time warp. It’s only showing 148 emails and those are all from September of last year. The only way I can read emails which I received today is to do an advanced search and select the ‘received within one [...]
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AIM in Gmail
December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Just noticed that a web version of AIM instant messenger is now built into the Gmail.
Just click on ‘Options’ when you are logged into Gmail and then select the login with AIM link. After you signup, your AIM friends appear next to your Gmail contacts.
This feature is only rolled out to US [...]
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GooMag - A Google powered Magazine?
November 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments
Google have a patent called “Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications” which if invoked, will see Google going into the Magazine business.
The patent paves the way for users to select which web based content they would like to subscribe to and then Google prints off the articles and posts the subscriptions as a magazine [...]
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Google to launch Wiki rival to Wikipedia?
September 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments
Approximately one year ago; Google aquired Jotspot, a Wiki based startup. For the past year the site has been shut to new signups as Google go about the revamping process.
Techrunch are today reporting on the possiblity that Jotspot is about to be reopened to the public. From Techcrunch:
Google Operating System noted that the Jotspot [...]
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