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Google dependency

5 February 2010

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My internet connection is not great in Bali. I think now my internet bill is higher than my monthly rent! Partly because I moved to a cheaper place and now paying to have it in our office. From time to time, Google.com stops working. They seem to have some serious problems with their proxy. The [...]

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Using Google Chrome

15 November 2008

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My laptop is still going strong after a couple of years, but it is starting to get slower and slower, mainly when starting up. I am reluctant to buy a new one as this one has been so reliable. A reinstall of the Windows would help a lot, but I can’t bothered with that. I [...]

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Are you going to stop selling links?

27 October 2007

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I can’t believe how much people are talking about the latest Google PageRank update! It even made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in Australia (at least the online version). It’s not going to stop me selling links, at least on this blog. I am still making money with Text Link Ads [...]

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Mail from a Forbes reporter

22 June 2007

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Back in April I received an email from Andrew Greenberg from Forbes. He was writing an article on Google’s supplemental index. He found me through a comment I made on Aaron Wall’s blog. He wanted me to call him to discuss his story. (I need to get a phone one of these days!) I was [...]

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Blogger merged with Google accounts

7 January 2007

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I logged into blogger today and got a message asking if I wanted to merge my blogger account with my google account. I don’t use blogger for much these days, but I still have the original acccount where this blog started. My old blog still has a page rank of 4, so it is useful [...]

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The Google Story

25 November 2006

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After not being able to find anything that looked vaguely interesting, I picked up a copy of ‘The Google Story’ by David Vise and Mark Malseed. It is a fast pace read and is interesting to think what you were doing as the company evovled and when exactly you started using it for search. I [...]

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Google and Microsoft go head to head

18 April 2006

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The competition between Microsoft and Google is becoming greater as they both try to cross into one another’s domains. Google have released their own on-line calendar and just when I thought I would stop using Hotmail, I clicked on the “try new beta” in my account and found Microsoft’s new web mail offering. It has [...]

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