Looks like I am the only blogger who hasn’t talked about the latest PageRank update so far. So here goes…there were two batches of PageRank drop - in the first some sites like JohnChow.com, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and this blog itself (from PR 6 to 5) that were selling text links were hit.

The second batch took place yesterday and I came to know from DailyBlogTips that this blog’s PR had dropped again from 5 to 4 this time. Many blogs were hit in the second batch including popular ones like Engadget, Problogger, Copyblogger, John Chow, QuickOnlineTips and Weblog Tools Collection!

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Amit Agarwal recently found a simple keyboard shortcut to delete email messages in Gmail that works across all web browsers.

If you are reading a message in GMail, press the # key (Shift+3) and that message will instantly move to Trash.

Alternatively, select one or more email messages in the GMail list view, press the same # hash key and all the selected GMail conversations will be deleted in one batch.

This secret keyboard shortcut is very useful, I wonder why Google decided not to share it with GMail users.

These are some interesting videos about Google I watched recently. Enjoy!

Power of Google

This movie depicts that in the future the entire information in the world will be collected and controlled by Google. All your emails in your Gmail account are scanned and Google collects your personal data using cookies and account information to just display relevant text ads?

Google is also collecting user data in other ways. The Google homepage for example sets a cookie on the client computer which is valid until the year 2038.

Continue reading ‘Google Videos’

Google recently announced that it will begin reporting the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage. Hence on February 17th, FeedBurner publishers noticed an increase in their feed count. This is great news as you can now have a better idea of what your actual feed counts are.

My Feed readers jumped from 500+ to 800+ and I am really happy about it and wish to further increase it to 1000+

Continue reading ‘Google Now Started Reporting Subscribers’

Did you know that you could find the definition of a word using Google? Here’s how you do it - if you would like to find the meaning of a word say ‘blogging’ you could search for define: blogging and Google will show you the definitions of blogging on the Web.

The information is shown from a variety of dictionary related Web sites such as Wikipedia.org, and there’s a link to the full entry for each Web site. Google also provides links to related searches, such as “blogging engine” in this example.

I had learned this trick from a friend but you can find this on About.com.

Update: Other Google Web Search Features can be found here

For a few days I had been hearing news about Google acquiring Youtube which I believed was just a rumour, but now Google announced the acquisition for $1.65 billion.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

I spend some time on YouTube almost daily and this is great news for me as I expect Google to improve YouTube’s service a lot more. Google Rules!

What’s your opinion on Google acquiring Youtube?

The official Google Blog was hacked this weekend and a fake post was published claiming that Google discontinued their AdWords click-to-call test.

Later Google removed that post and explained here that it was a bug in Blogger that enabled the unauthorized user to make a fake post on their official blog.

A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we’ve discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we’re pleased with the results thus far.

found via Google Blogoscoped

Google announced today that you can now ping their blog search service here to let them know when you have updated your blog.

If you own a WordPress blog, you can ping them automatically everytime you post by going to ‘update services’ under options/writing and adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to a new line.

Note: Doing this may increase the time to publish a post.

found via ProBlogger

Google has started updating PageRank again and it looks like my PageRank problems are finally over. After checking my future pagerank, I found that both www.johntp.com and http://johntp.com has now got the same PageRank of 5

But I did expect this blog to have a PageRank of 6 with the next PR update

Anyways go ahead and find what your site’s future PageRank will be with this tool from SEO Chat

Future PageRank Tool © SEO Chat™ URL Valid URL

Other tools you can use are RustyBrick’s and iwebtool’s PageRank prediction.

Do let me know what your new PageRanks are

With this simple trick, you can get tons of mp3 download links using just Google. For example, if you want to download gorillaz mp3 songs, just type in this phrase in the Google search box

intitle:index.of? mp3 gorillaz

and then you can start your downloads. You can also get applications or ebooks with this trick

via TechnoBytez Forum

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