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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007

After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page.
When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with the [...]

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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were

Google Desktop Search
Microsoft Desktop Search
Yahoo Desktop Search

I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines.
Search on [...]

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Feedburner FeedCount

June 2, 2007

The RSS subscribes for this site is tracked using the Feedburner service. From the past week I have been observing an change in the way the feed count is reported/calculated. I am not sure if I am the only one seeing this change.
The site had an average reader count of around 130 feed subscribers. On [...]

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Search Result Link screwed by Google Personalized Search ?

May 17, 2007

Google Personalized Search which was out of Beta this February was enabled by default for every Google account.
Once you login to your Google Account, your entire “Web History” is being recorded by Google. The recording is not just limited to Google Search; in fact searches across the various Google services such as Image Search, Map [...]

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Google Analytics Reloaded

May 10, 2007

Just a few days back I bought licensed copy of Mint; the cute powerful Web analytics application. When I wrote about Mint some days back I also mentioned about the poor navigation interface in Google Analytics
Looks like I was not the only one complaining; Jeff Veen and Brett Corsby unveiled the new version of Google [...]

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Mint – Flexible Web Analytics Program

May 1, 2007

Web Analytic tools are “must have” for anybody running a website. They give interesting insight into your site’s traffic patterns. The tools give data on number of people visiting your site, the search engine used to arrive at your site, the keyword used in the search engine and much more information about every [...]

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RSS Bandit – Alternative to FeedDemon

April 17, 2007

FeedDemon, the popular RSS feed reader for windows is/was one of my favorite application. It has a clean user friendly interface and reading/managing the feeds is a treat with this application. Its also one of the few desktop based readers which can synchronize with an online service -Newsgator. However FeedDemon comes at a price (30$) [...]

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Checking backlinks

April 16, 2007

Backlinks are the incoming links to a website or web page and the number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website or a web page.
Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining the website’s search engine ranking. For [...]

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MeasureMap – What ever happened ?

March 20, 2007

When I initially started this blog I signed up with Statcounter service which showed me detailed data of visitors reading my posts. It was exciting and nice to see the increasing number of visitors every day.
However the free service of Statcounter has limited functionality and you infer less data with more visitors visiting [...]

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SearchMash

February 12, 2007

SearchMash as the name suggests is a mashup of a Search Engine and is created and maintained by Google itself !
Surprisingly you don’t see any Google logo in the index page or the search result page. Only the TOS page seems to confirm that the site is maintained by Google !
When it was launched few [...]

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