by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ February 28th, 2008.
Microsoft Windows and its applications hide some “features” people are normally not aware of.
FEATURE #1
You can NOT create a folder named as “CON” anywhere on the computer. This is something strange, because CON does not seem to be a keyword or reserved word in the operating system. For some reason, it will just not let [...]
by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 13th, 2007.
Google has its local pages which it is serving depending on visitor’s geographic location. Consequently, both organic and paid search results differ if you are searching on, let’s say, www.google.com or local www.google.co.uk.
If you need to know what Google results are served in different countries or you have an International or geotargeted Google AdWords campaigns [...]
by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 13th, 2007.
The “unavailable_after” tag will allow instructing Googlebot when to stop crawling certain pages. This tag will be very convenient when you have a limited time offer promotional page. With this tag you specify a date when the promotion expires and instruct Google not to crawl this page anymore. Or you can use it if you [...]
by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 12th, 2007.
Yahoo launched a “suggest search” feature that automatically prompts users with suggested search queries as they type.
This feature is supposed to reduce the number of words the users need to type in when performing queries, thus reducing the time needed to find what they are looking for.
Previously it was available to users of the Yahoo [...]
by rudibela ~ July 11th, 2007.
Compete issued the search market share report for June 2007. The report is showing MSN/Windows Live Search dramatically gaining a number of searches since last month.
The search market share trend is based on the ISP data, traffic panel data and toolbar tracking information that Compete gathers.
After a constant climb since October last year and reaching [...]