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Google announced about Google Instant Search and there has been some concern on the twittersphere that this will eliminate SEO. I am not one who believes that SEO will be eliminated, but it does sound like we may have to make some adaptions to our techniques. Feedback welcome!!!

As many of you may or may not be aware, today Google released a new search technology called "Google Instant". Here is a link to an info page about it: [url]http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launch&utm_medium=et&utm_source=toggle[/url] It's only available on the most up-to-date browsers, such as Firefox 3, IE 8 and a couple others, so …

The great thing about modern technology is that it makes our lives easier, well, most of our lives that is. For some, it would seem, technology just adds another layer of confusion into the whole living their life thing. Take the many cases of people apparently having to do exactly …

Hi, for some reason when ever I go onto google, yahoo or any search engine, the only results I get are that of phishing and scam sites. This started happening just after I had removed three virus' (one of those scan ware things that pretend to be anti-virus') that had …

I have a virus on my computer that when I search something on google and click on a search result, the link takes me to a random website and the computer is running a lot slower than usual. I have Ad-Aware, Malawarebytes Anti-Malaware, Sypot Search & Destroy, Hijack This, and …

I am quite irritated with Yahoo's new policy of requiring new users of their Delicious service to sign up with a Yahoo! ID. I do not want more email addresses to worry about, etc. I just want to bookmark. So now I am wondering, among all of Google's offerings, do …

I want to matching addresses, without necessarily displaying them on a map by using Google MAP. For example : [CODE]<input type="text" name="drop-off" id="drop" style="color:#666666"/>[/CODE] the customer will enter like this in the texe field : 10 Abbe......., then autmatically the address appear like this for example 10 abbey st and …

With the Android developer community buzzing about how easy it is to pirate apps, one outfit took it upon itself to try and track down the pirates. The results are truly shocking. [attach]16959[/attach]The provocatively named Android Police site last week claimed that [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/626374/android-app-flaw-allows-easy-piracy"]most Android apps can be simply patched and …

Hi everyone - This is my first post, so please be gentle :) I am having a problem on a website I recently built in which the entire container is shifting just a few pixels to the right on some of the pages of the sites. Not all of the …

[B]Context[/B] I'm retrieving data from Google Analytics (via the python-googleanalytics library, as Google's API is way too complex for me right now) and putting that data into a table using an HTML library. Python experience: very low. [B]Problem[/B] I have this: [u'string', u'string'] [integer] [u'string', u'string'] [integer] [u'string', u'string'] [integer] …

[URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL] has upgraded its mobile version of [URL="http://www.youtube.com"]YouTube[/URL] so that it shares more in common with the desktop version on HTML5 enabled phones. This anticipates the idea that more people will watch videos on the move than on the desktop, so you'll get a better browsing experience, the ability to …

I'm working on a site and I want to give the users option to change the background image. Of course client-side. My default background-image is put in CSS file. [CODE]body { background-image: url(images/back.jpg); overflow: visible; width: 1260px; }[/CODE] I've tried to make some javascript trigering the change [CODE]var img = …

This is funny but what if it is a not-too-distant reality? [youtube]Xtuxax8Dtk4[/youtube]LOL "Come on let's go to Dunkin Donuts..." or the 911 call, how funny is that.

[ATTACH=right]16801[/ATTACH]The holiday shopping season has apparently come early to the tech world. First came the big and stupefying news that [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story305645.html"]Intel was purchasing security leader McAfee[/URL] for $7.68 billion earlier, and now the end of the week brings a new flurry of acquisitions from three more industry leaders. [B]Google Likes …

[ATTACH=right]16767[/ATTACH]In Google's apparent on-going quest to take over the entire (virtual) world, the latest rumors have the search giant making a major play for the tablet market on the biggest shopping day of the entire year. If rumors are true, on the one day a year when apparently normal people …

Remember Lycos? One of the earlier leaders in search, it was sold to Spanish firm Terra for more than $12 billion ten years ago. This week [URL="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129246686&ft=1&f=1006"]it sold again[/URL] to an Indian company, for a paltry $36 million. Ouch. That got us wondering how some tech companies seem to go …

Google PPC Effective?

Can anyone advise what is the maximum number of text link ads to have on our <snip> [B]Home Page[/B] without going down in page rank? As of now we have a Page Rank of 4 and our Alexa rating is 285,000.

[ATTACH=right]16607[/ATTACH]Earlier this week, information and telecommunications giants Google and Verizon were nice enough to work out a deal on Net Neutrality, outlined in a "joint policy proposal" for Congress. [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story303180.html"]As we reported[/URL], one of the most controversial parts of the proposal is the suggestion that service providers should be permitted …

[ATTACH=right]16448[/ATTACH]In the fight to be the No. 1 smart phone, Google's Android stands to surpass the iPhone's top seat in two years, according to [URL="http://www.isuppli.com/Mobile-and-Wireless-Communications/News/Pages/Googles-Android-to-Outstrip-Apples-iOS-by-2012-iSuppli-Forecasts.aspx"]market researcher iSuppli Corp[/URL]. "Google and Apple are engaged in a fierce battle for control of the wireless market, which represents the most lucrative growth opportunity …

[ATTACH=right]16632[/ATTACH]This week, the world's most famous search and everything else company waded into a ballot battle in Google's home state of California. [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20013242-265.html"]At an event held at the company's Mountain View HQ[/URL], Google 'Green Energy Czar' [URL="http://research.google.com/pubs/author3525.html"]Bill Weihl[/URL] and a handful of other green business personalities announced their collective opposition …

This is not short but it is good. [B]The best is at the beginning and end.[/B] Some say that I am too open and honest so if something is not allowed, delete that instead of the whole post. I read that this website was started by Dani in 2002 and …

[URL="http://www.facebook.com"]Facebook[/URL] has got in the way of [URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL] and acquired [URL="http://www.friendfeed.com"]Friendfeed[/URL]. This is not great news for Google. The search giant has one major chink in its armour; you can't search social media in real time. Once entries have been around for a while you can find stuff; I've certainly …

[ATTACH=right]16573[/ATTACH]Just as it seemed one Google Street View debacle in a foreign country came to a resolution today, another was just beginning thousands of miles away. The problems first began for Google in Germany in May, when the company's Street View vehicles collected private data that was sent across unencrypted …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16532[/ATTACH]Yet [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/google-aquires-jambool-social-gold/"]another target of Google's shopping list has been revealed[/URL], this time [URL="http://www.jambool.com/"]Jambool[/URL], the producer of Social Gold, a payment product that allows developers to build a payment system directly into their applications. The purchase price is a rumored $55 million dollars, with an additional sum on earnout. Founded in …

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of former US President Ronald Reagan, has accused people who use email services from Apple, AOL, Google, Hotmail and Yahoo! of "supporting the Obama, Pelosi and Reid liberal agenda" and ultimately "hurting our country". His answer, for those supporters of what he calls true "Reagan …

The big mystery of what exactly Verizon and Google were talking about behind closed doors was solved this afternoon when about 1:45 p.m. ET, the two telecom companies issued a joint policy proposal, announcing a compromise on net neutrality. Their [URL="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35599242/Verizon-Google-Legislative-Framework-Proposal"]suggestions[/URL] are legislative framework for policymakers, they said. "Google and …

I have a blog with variety topics of technology information, submitted to blog directory, backlinks site and etc, but unfortunately it's not indexed by google, yahoo index is okay. My blog is about 6 months age. Please help suggest me how to make google index my google!

In a new development to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story302325.html"]news earlier today[/URL] that Verizon and Google were nearing an agreement that might end net neutrality, both companies have now released statements to the contrary. In Google's case, the statement came as a [URL="http://twitter.com/googlepubpolicy/statuses/20393606477"]Tweet[/URL] around mid-day Thursday. "@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos …

Rumors surfaced today saying Verizon and Google are reportedly close to making a deal that could end net neutrality. The [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_verizon"]Associated Press[/URL] reported that the two companies, which have been in talks for close to a year, may reach an agreement in the coming days. If such an agreement were …