My technology news blog got PR 4 yesterday. I also noticed that this site had a PR4 for some time.
Also, this time Google has changed the way they rank sites. Google no more gives much importance to backlinks
So what do you think? Is Google really updating PageRank?

This new Email Subscriptions product launches officially this morning and can be found under the “publicize” link at Feedburner.

I was so excited to know that Google is researching even better search.
Google Voice Search
Google patents “Voice interface for a search engine” which allow user to search by voice.

uTorrent was very slow for me until recently I applied a few tweaks. Here’s what I did.

Paul Stamatiou has released Part 4 of his K2 customization series. He has also covered the basics on How-To acheive the 3 Column layout for K2. Here are all the four parts of his customization series.

Darren Rowse has listed some of the most useful blog tools on his recent post- Blog tools.
Here are some of my favorite tools.

Gabbly is a new application that embeds a chat window in any web page. It is based on iframes.

Here are some simple things you can do to get your blog noticed quickly:

Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on Pingomatic which allows you to ping a few services all at once.
Submit your blog to Pingoat which allows you to ping over fifty blog ping services all at once.

Liz Strauss has written a good post on 7 simple keyword rules that must be followed when writing for the Internet. What are those rules?

Always write for people first.
Position keywords after the post is written.
Keep the number of individual keywords limited.
Avoid using a given keyword too often in a document. The Internet is not a [...]