Nov 5, 2009 Posted by searchef

Google Announced “Google Dashboard”

Well, another thumb up to Google as this new dashboard will let you to easily access your personal information data stored in Google such as your services in use. You can reach your own dashboard by http://www.google.com/dashboard/ and can check the services you are using with brief informations and statistics. You can also run those services by simply clicking on them. For your info; Gmail, Reader, Talk,... read more

Oct 31, 2009 Posted by searchef

International Domain Names are On the Way

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that website domain owners will have the chance to register their domain names in non-Latin characters. This will give the chance to have domain names in their own language to nearly 50% of the world wide web users, who use non-Latin character based languages. What would be the benefits ? Well, this  in the first place will let... read more

Oct 30, 2009 Posted by searchef

Google Announces Using of ATOM/RSS Feeds to Discover New URLs

“We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.” …says the Google This exactly means that Google search engine will be using rss and atoms to discover new webpages even if they are not listed or submitted to search engines. “In order for us to use your RSS/Atom feeds for discovery, it’s important that crawling these files is not... read more

Oct 29, 2009 Posted by searchef

Let the “Google Music Search” Begin!

Day has come, Google officially rolled out a music search feature that allows user search songs via web search. It works like this; when you enter a music/song related query in the search box and go for it, the results of the search will include the audio preview of the song(s) that is (or most related in some cases) with your search query. This feature will indeed answer most of the needs in music... read more

Oct 28, 2009 Posted by searchef

No More Geocities

Well, one of the old faces of the internet, Geocities,  is now closed. I remember the early days back in 1994 when it was first launched to serve the web users. They offered a great opportunity for the webmasters to host their websites for free under their domain name. Might sound not that charming nowadays but was indeed a gift for those times. It is kind of sad those websites will not be available to... read more