Did you notice? I’ve just seen that Google has a new favicon. I couldn’t find any new thing across all other services, though (Gmail and stuff). Is this a first step in some bigger redesign process? No more green-blue-red-yellow logo on the search page? Share This Related posts www dot googleporn dot com (0) WTF of the Week [...] → Read more

WordPress 2.6 will implement a potentially very cool feature: Google Gears. Here is what you get to see after you click on a catchy “Speed up!” link in WordPress 2.6 … Basically, Google Gears is a browser addon that stores on your local computer some files, allowing for quicker (as in “immediate”) access. Those files are stored [...] → Read more

Hu? I didn’t know there was a Google Bookmarks service (apparently it’s been around since June 2006). It’s a bit like del.icio.us, without the social dimension, without the usable interface. Sort of sucks. Share This Related posts www dot googleporn dot com (0) Wikipedia Google Bombing (0) Trouver sa Ville dans les Google Maps (0) scuttle 0.6.0 (0) My Name is Google [...] → Read more

I just found out about Google’s Music Search (example). Don’t expect anything to find illegal MP3s (although Google can be used for this) but this is a neat tool when researching about a band: their discography, album names and release dates, reviews, even lyrics. I didn’t know about this. Share This Related posts www dot googleporn dot com [...] → Read more

“How much does Google hate Text Links Ads ?” This question seems to have a simple answer: google it. TLA doesn’t even appear in the first 100 results (while it is obviously #1 result in other major search engines) Share This Related posts www dot googleporn dot com (0) Wikipedia Google Bombing (0) Trouver sa Ville dans les Google Maps [...] → Read more

Half of the planet (or so) is actually suffering from “Pagerank Update Disorder”, which make them check every minute if, finally, the long awaited Google Pagerank update occurred and what PR their various websites now have. If you belong to them, or if you just happen to wonder from time to time “What PR this [...] → Read more

I’m back online (yes, it’s been slightly less than a month this time:), all tanned, all rested, and all depressed that I’m back to work :Þ Croatia was very nice, and our dive center Diving in Croatia was probably the finest and kindest group of people we’ve dived with. Now waiting from a few fellow divers [...] → Read more

According to Google’s hot trends for today, keyword “iPhone” is used in more than 10% of all searches. How come then that nobody has some adwords on iPhone related searches, then? Is the keyword banned in AdWords ? Share This Related posts www dot googleporn dot com (0) Wikipedia Google Bombing (0) Trouver sa Ville dans les Google Maps (0) My [...] → Read more

I’ve seen recently a lot of plugins for WordPress aimed at taking care of the duplicate content issue in search engines. Don’t get me wrong, those plugins are doing well what they were created for : adding a meta tag in some pages so that Googlebot and its friends don’t index them. The problem is [...] → Read more

With Google’s latest toy, Code Search, you have yet another tool for your egosurf needs. How many people use your code ? Example query for “ozh”. Once again I found several Wordpress themes using my Theme Toolkit I didn’t know about, if only theme authors would simply drop a line to say hi when they [...] → Read more