Justilien Gaspard notices that Google is currently testing an enhanced dictionary of its own. In the past, when you misspell a word, Google would suggest the correct spellings in the result page (a.k.a Did you mean…). With this new tweak, Google hyperlinks the misspelled words in the search box and suggests the correct spelling. It also lets you to add your own custom words into the dictionary even if you are not logged in.
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First, it was discovered by Ron Ruscoe that Google redirects the subdomain purchases.google.com to Google’s homepage. And then nullbit of Webmasterbrain discovered a hidden link of the actual sign up form for a service Google have coined “Purchases”.
According to Nathan Weinberg of InsideGoogle, Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search history, which lets you tag and comment pages you find on Google.
To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit� and type in any tags under the “Labels� heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that.
Once you’ve saved a bunch of sites, you can view them by clicking the Bookmarks heading in the left sidebar. You can show multiple tags at once by clicking all of their check boxes.
Google has fixed a security hole found on its AdWords advertising program and a customer training site.
The bug was found and reported to Google by security company Finjan Software late last month.
The bug is a cross-site scripting vulnerability and is said to allow attackers to hijack Google accounts, launch phishing scams or even download malicious code onto users’ computers.
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Did I just find out some undocumented features of Google? When I search for “Kahuna invite” on Google with Firefox, I don’t see the Gooooooooogle page navigator at the bottom even though Google says it has found 37,800 results.
It happens only when I use Firefox (regardless of whether I’m signed in or not), and it happens only when I search for “kahuna invite”. (Click on the image to enlarge it)
Strange. It seems to be okay with IE and Opera. Anyways, the syntax used by Google is this.
Sorry for lack of updates recently. Have been extremely busy with something else. In case you missed this, Google has launched its own online RSS reader as expected. Dubbed as Google Reader (yawn), it’s still in beta (double yawn), and it is still in Google Labs, so expect to see many more features of it soon.
And it’s interesting to see a Google product that currently works exclusively on Firefox. Yes, it currently doesn’t work with Opera at all, and it produces error in IE.
Link: Google Reader.
Cross posted at Techdigger.
Oh no, what a disappointment. The rumor that Google would collaborate with Sun to launch an office suite with Google logo is just an overhyped, well, rumor. The speculation that was so strong that it even evidently caused Microsoft’s share price to drop (info).
It turned out to be: Now when you download the Sun Java virtual machine, you get the opportunity to download the Google toolbar. That’s it.
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Yesterday I blogged about Barry who wanted to propose to his beloved girlfriend the special way. So he got his girlfriend to search for her name on Ask Jeeves, and got it to deliver the “marry me” message to his girlfriend.
So what happen if you search for her name on Google?
Heh, this is boring and lame, I know. I’m bored, and currently running out of things to blog about. And to make it even more boring, the log file reveals that so far there have been 7 people who were curious to know.
Webmasters, if Google PageRank and Alexa ranking matters a lot to you, check out Pagerankcheck.info.
Just key in the domain name and you will get the following information of your website:
# Google PageRank ranking
# Alex ranking
# Number of Google listings
# Number of MSN listings
# Number of Yahoo listings
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Google has got a mail application, a desktop search engine, an instant messenger, and what do you get when you combine all them plus Sun Microsystems, the company that makes the popular StarOffice?
Rumor has it that Google will team up with StarOffice to launch an office suite that carries Google’s brandname. The speculation began with its hiring of Joerg Heilig, the former director of software engineering at Sun, a consultant and designated representative of the OpenOffice.org open source community.
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