Finally! After tracking everything manually, Google has launched a statistics page for Android developers using the Android Market. Below you can see some screenshots from TV.Centerr with all the available details. Accumulated installs Operating Systems/Android Versions Devices Notes: The data of this page is scheduled to update once everyday. Accumulated installs are counted daily as […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Account 2-Step Verification
I managed to activate the new 2-step verification for my Google Account. The setup takes up to 15 minutes. And they aren’t lying about that. It is quite long and different things are changed or printed out. I’ve taken some screenshots for you to check it out: At the end, you need to define passwords […]
Continue Reading“The Dirty Little Secrets of Search” – Additional Information
By now you have possible heard and read about the New York Times story by David Segal, which talks about how JC Penney cheated Google’s ranking system to become the number one spot for several keywords and phrases. David Segal contacted me in mid of January about a “dresses” link to the JC Penney website […]
Continue ReadingNYTimes: The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Thank you for your visit. If you are here because of the New York Times article, published on February 12th, you can see those links on the right side navigation under “Links”. After a short discussion with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, I have decided to remove these links from my blog. This […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Docs: I am now a video player
Google is about to roll out a new feature to their Google Docs product line: Video Upload and Video Player The new feature promises easy access to all your uploaded videos from everywhere. Files that you can play Uploaded video files can be up to 1 GB. These are the most common video formats that […]
Continue ReadingGoogle With New Search Results Page
Just a couple of weeks after publicly launching their new look & feel and less then a week after allowing people to use custom backgrounds on the Google homepage, they do another redesign. As of today, I see preview pictures next to search results. Check out the screenshot below. To use this, simply append “&tbs=prv:1” […]
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