Google Maps Navigation – Free Navigation From Google Looks Amazing

Google recently launched a beta version of Google Maps Navigation. As the name hints, it’s based on Google Maps but it’s also heavily updated with new stuff because of the “navigation”-part of the name. At first, the software will only be available for Android 2.0 but it will be free and ad-sponsored. The advertisements are … Read more →

Google Similar Image Search Fresh Out of Google Labs

A new feature from Google Labs was just released and is now available to the public, it’s called Similar Images. At first it works just like regular Google image search, but when you click “similar images” on an image, you will see..… *drum roll*… similar images! For instance, an initial image search for “apple” will … Read more →

Mozilla Raindrop – An Alternative To Google Wave?

Google Wave has been getting a lot of buzz in the world of tech lately, as more and more people are getting invitations and access to join Google Wave and try out the preview version. Mozilla, the team behind applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird, now introduced their “alternative” to Google Wave. It’s called Raindrop. … Read more →

Firefox 3.6 Will Support Accelerometers – Beta Release Tomorrow?

Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be made available for download today or yesterday, but so far I haven’t been able to find a download link for it – I can only assume that it might come out tomorrow instead? Firefox 3.6 comes with bug fixes as well as some interesting improvements such as a … Read more →

Google Removes The Pirate Bay From Search Results (Never Mind, They’re Back!)

Google does the China move and removes The Pirate Bay’s homepage and seven other pages related to the Bay’s BitTorrent tracker, because of a DMCA complaint, writes The Register. At this time Google has not responded to The Register’s query for more information about the removal. Peter Sunde, former spokesperson for The Pirate Bay, asks … Read more →

How To: More Targeted AdSense Ads & Thesis Code Example

If you have watched the Matt Cutts video from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 you probably noticed his mentioning of the two following HTML codes: [html] <!–google_ad_section_start–> <!–google_ad_section_end–> [/html] Most people don’t know about those two tags and so they don’t use them. Using them lets you define what part of your website (or blog) should … Read more →

Matt Cutts: “Google Crawls According To PageRank”. A Must See Video For Bloggers

Matt Cutts is often looked at as the “face of Google” among bloggers and search engine optimization people. Matt often posts information, tips, videos etc. with information about Google and other related stuff that can help bloggers and webmasters optimize their site for better ranking and readership. He joined Google as a software engineer in … Read more →

Google Search Becomes Bigger – Almost Super Sized!

Did you also reset your font-size in your browser yesterday when you noticed how the Google Search had grown in size? There’s nothing wrong with you, or me, it’s just Google changing things around. Google writes on their official blog: For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you’ll notice on our … Read more →

Apple Builds Giant Data Center In North Carolina – But For What?

Earlier this month Google CEO Erik Schmidt parted with the Apple board of directors because Apple and Google are closing in on each others core businesses. Most people will probably say that Google is closing in on Apple, with the launch of Android, Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS and so on, which was also said … Read more →