Google Adds More Of Its Own Goodies To Search Results

PROTECT-IP is the latest piece of legislation aiming to chip away at your online rights in the name of protecting the entertainment industry's business model. It's legislation that won't work, will give us yet more lawsuits, and will make the net worse. Read more...

Google is now providing photos and other information about local businesses in its search results, an update that puts Google in direct competition with sites like Yelp and comes just weeks after lawmakers grilled Google over allegations it was abusing its search dominance to quash rivals. [Full Article: HuffingtonPost.com]

What’s so important about email etiquette? - Email is a powerful and versatile form of communication, but if you don’t follow some basic guidelines you can find your message marginalized or not read at all. As in any form of written or oral communication there are accepted practices that must be adhered to if you want the best results. This article outlines some of the practices and guidelines. Read more...

Free web-based email makes you think of dead-giveaway addresses like This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , which are not the ideal on a business card or resume. But setting up your own email server or paying a hosting provider to do it for your small organization can be costly or time-consuming. The good news is you can get all the benefits of the leading web-based email service out there - Google's Gmail - with a This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. address, and we can set it up for you quickly and cheaply. Read more...

Killing time the wrong way - Recently Google, the behemoth search, mail and online applications provider released statistics that the amount of spam making into their webmail client’s email inboxes doubled from 1.3% to 2.6% in the month of February. I have used Gmail since it was in the invite-only beta testing phase and I can attest to the fact that they have traditionally been better than Hotmail and Yahoo at keeping junk out of my inbox. 2.6% still isn’t bad, and in fact is below national averages, but it is still unsettling to think that a company with a multi-billion dollar research and development budget can’t kill this phantom menace. Read more...

Google is a noun, a verb, and the single largest repository of information in the history of mankind. They not only provide Internet search and advertising services, but also use their beyond significant information resources to store things like every book ever printed, medical records, climate statistics and a whole lot more. Read more...

Joomla! has become 'the' most powerful Open Source Content Management System on the planet. It is a 'free' open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and eCommerce applications. The name 'Joomla' is Swahili for 'all together'. Read more...