Google Docs has been gaining more and more popularity. First of all, it is free compared to the expensive yet well-known office suite. The portability also adds value to people on the run.
A new feature has been added in Google Docs recently. What is Google famous for? Search.
Now in Google Docs, you can highlight a word and look up the definition/synonyms with Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. You can also look something up in Encyclopedia Britannica.
Last but not least, you can perform a Google Image Search from within Google Docs.
Software
Posted by: Leo
18 September 2008
Google Ad Planner is a media tool, free of charge, to help you identify the sites that your target audiences are likely to visit. With the use of the Google Ad Planner you would be able to make better decision on where to advertise.
Check out Google Ad Planner here: http://www.google.com/support/adplanner/bin/answer.py?answer=96376&topic=14715
Google Ad Planner allows you to:
- Define audiences by demographics and interests.
- Search for websites relevant to your audience.
- Access aggregated statistics on the number of unique visitors, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
- Create lists of websites where you’d like to advertise and store them in a media plan.
- Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.
You can choose to define a media plan or research site only in Google Ad Planner. A list of defined sites or placement can be saved for your future use.
If you have an Adwords account, you can also export your defined sites and import them for your placement campaign.
Just like Google with iGoogle & Google Gadgets, or Facebook’s widget platform, Yahoo is going to open up their platform for third party applications.
Applications written and shown on the Yahoo site allows users to check information without leaving the site. Thus keeping the users on the Yahoo site for longer.
Yahoo would still control who can write the applications to avoid security issues. Therefore, it is not really a ‘open for all’ news.
But this would at least make users of Yahoo feel safe, as they don’t have to worry about personal data being in jeopardy.
Google Chrome has just released! It is the long waiting Google OS. It is really a browser.
Google claims it has better stability and won’t slow your computer down, as it frees up memory when a tab is closed. It also uses multi-threading technology so everything runs in parallel. If anything goes wrong, you only lost one tab. Not the whole browser.
A 38-page comics is available for you to understand the browser more. You can view it here:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
You can download the new browser here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html
I am hoping that addon / plugin would be available shortly.
It is quite frustrating when accessing a site and reached a 404 page. Usually people would just click back or simply close the browser.
However, it is always recommended to make this 404 page useful. This way you would be able to keep your potential client when they fail to reach a page.
The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that an ‘enhanced 404 page’ can be created in the webmaster tools. Once created, a widget can be placed on your customized 404 page. The page would then display something like this:
It contains:
- A link to the parent sub-directory
- A link to the sitemap
- A Google Search box
To obtain the widget, go to ‘Enhance 404 Pages’ section in webmaster tools, and a Javascript would be generated. Copy and paste the code and you are done. Remember to return a 404 code.
