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I just got this message when using Google search: We’re sorry… … but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. I just learnt about some new commands for search, specifically allintitle: and allintext: I did a few searches of allintitle: but...
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News just in the Google has bought an online travel firm. ITA was set up in 2007 by a group of IT developers in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Google have paid $700 million for the company. They plan to integrate the ITA travel information within their own search results in the same way that some retail...
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How is this possible? Today I witness the publication online of a new article on a health and fitness website. The article was about how diet can help reduce hay fever symptoms. What I witnessed was shocking. The main Adsense advert on the page was for a popular anti-histamine drug. For this advert to...
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Google have got into the spirit of the World Cup. Google “World Cup” and then scroll down….. More useful are the search results for “World Cup” though, as they display all the groups plus the first two games. Here is a screen shot of the results for a search on “World Cup” at the...
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Google have announced on their Blogspot blog that their latest major Search Algorithm update, Caffeine, is not fully live and on all servers. From now on, Google search is even better than the competition. It is faster and indexes more sites at a greater level. Google are so excited about this news that they...
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Just got this error message in Google Adsense: There was an error in generating the report that you requested. Please try again later. Now, let me make it clear, I do love Google. But in the last few days I have had a real headache working with some of their excellent products. Specifically Adsense,...
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Google has purchased the main threat and biggest player in mobile advertising. Google firmly beleives that Mobile Internet is the future and it is set to dominate search and advertising on mobile in the same way as it has on line. Here is the announcement from Google: We’ve officially acquired AdMob! Posted: 27 May...
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Google TV has finally been announced. It is something that we have all been expecting and waiting for really. Microsoft were talking about the future of the computer and Internet being in the living-room a few years ago, but not much has come out from that camp other than ideas. Google are on the...
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You may have noticed Google’s search results look a bit different today. Some people had commented seeing small changes in recent weeks and speculating that Google were testing some new layouts. At the moment it seems that the new layouts are really just a style issue and there is little substance behind them in...
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Most UK Gmail account holders already refer to their email as “gmail” and even give the @gmail address (I certainly do, seems I was an early adopter without really realising it). But due to trademark issues from way back when (in Internet terms) Google could not use “Gmail” in the UK. Well, now it...
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