Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Google has announced the launch of a new feature in Adsense that will allow third-party ad networks to show display ads on the Google content network alongside Adsense ads. This is a great news for publishers who use Adsense on their sites as it can potentially increase their earnings considerably. Because the third-party ad networks [...]
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Technology
Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Blogger is one Google product which has faced stiff competition from several online blogging platforms such as WordPress.com as well as self-hosted blogging solutions. The primary reason people choose other services is that Blogger doesn’t offer much customization options, especially for those who don’t have technical skills. Google seems to have realized this and that [...]
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Featured, Small Business Technology
Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Google recently announced the launch of Google Apps Marketplace where business applications providers will be able to sell their applications that integrate with Google Apps. According to Google, over 2 million businesses are now using the cloud hosted Google Apps for their day-to-day activities. Google Apps is a fantastic service for small businesses as it [...]
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Featured, Technology
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The web developer community goes bonkers on anything that Google does. So when Google launched Chrome browser, everyone started switching to it. Chrome is a great browser, but, developers had to go back to good old Firefox when it came to their day-to-day work. Why? Because Chrome did not have plugins that they need while [...]
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Technology
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Finally, Google has started taking the real-time search seriously. Today, I was searching for information about a company and Google came up with Twitter updates by that company in the search results. Then I tried this feature with several other queries and Google was bang on target in the results from the real time web. [...]
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Asides
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Adwords is Google’s cash cow which gets millions of customers who want to advertise online. But, is just getting those millions customers enough to run the business or you need to provide good support to the customer as well? I suppose the latter is generally true. I once read on Don Dodge’s blog about Google [...]
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Technology
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Google has launched a new version of Google Custom Search Business Edition, called Google Site Search. The service allows for site owners to easily include search capabilities in their websites. The all new cloud hosted Google Site Search boasts of an enhanced index coverage, synonym recognition and ability to fine tune results on the basis [...]
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Business
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Microsoft has launched an online marketplace for people to post and find freelance jobs, named Task Market. The differentiating factor for Task Market from other online freelance marketplaces is that the jobs should be the ones which could be completed using Microsoft Office products. So, you will not find any technology related jobs at Task [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google has opened its application hosting platform, Google App Engine, for all. Now, anyone can build a web application with the in-built Python IDE and deploy applications on Google’s own infrastructure which is highly scalable and reliable. When Google App Engine was launched, I had written a detailed post on what you need to know [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google Data API team has announced the support for Contact Groups and Contact Photos in the new Google Contacts API. With Contact Groups functionality, web applications will be able to offer grouping the contacts, access to Google Contact groups, and the basic CRUD operations on contact groups. The Contact Photos feature will allow for accessing, [...]