Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Google'

Bye bye Cormac Nolan. Google finally recognises my surname!

June 29th, 2007 · 10 Comments

It took a few months but Google has finally dropped the appearance of ‘Did you mean Cormac Nolan?’ when you search for Cormac Moylan.
I should have propably conducted a bit of research into the principles of Google’s spellchecker and made an attempt to understand its inner workings. It would have been interesting to see how [...]

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Tags: Google · Personal · Wordpress & Blogs

Is your Gmail A/C secure?

April 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Dave, the Irish Developer, blogged recently about some strange going ons with his Gmail account…
I believe my Google Account was just hacked tonight. My Thunderbird was prompting me for my password saying it was invalid. So I tried to log into my Google Account, and after 5 tries the password went through and I was [...]

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Tags: Google · Phishing · Spam

Google Talk available on Mac via Firefox

March 24th, 2007 · 23 Comments

Yes! Finally it has arrived in some shape or form.
Since my conversion to Apple from the dark overlord that is Microsoft I have missed programs such as Winamp, uTorrent and Google Talk. But Google Talk is now available to me on the Mac via on their recently released Gadgets.
So what does this gadget do? Here [...]

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Tags: Firefox · Google · Software · Technology · Web 2.0

Defeating “Cormac Nolan” via Google Search

March 14th, 2007 · 16 Comments

Who is Cormac Nolan? I don’t know him, I don’t think he exists, or if he does exist he certainly doesn’t have a blog.
If you search for Cormac Moylan in Google, Google thinks you’re searching for Cormac Nolan. Now that’s not on!
I’m upset at this, I can’t lie, it’s hurting bad.
The only way to [...]

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Tags: Google · Online Advertising & Marketing · SEO

Google Phone to take on Apple’s iPhone - Thy rumour mill needs some oil!

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Crunchgear is after causing a bit of a stir after it reported on Google’s intent to follow Apple into the mobile phone market with the launch of Google Switch. Or so the rumour goes.
An insider has leaked this photograph of a mobile device to which Google is accredited to be developing with Samsung and Orange. [...]

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Tags: Apple Macs · Google · Software · Technology

Monetising a Wordpress Blog - Adding Google Adsense between paragraphs

March 6th, 2007 · 12 Comments

I have long been mulling over placing adverts on my blog. The only adverts I have implemented so far have been google ads via adsense in the single page view of posts. I have also added a referal link in the footer to my webhost, Blacknight.
I’m not a big fan of in-your-face ads so as [...]

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Tags: Google · Monetisation · Wordpress & Blogs