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A PR update was in the works and I guess it has happened. And unfortunately it seems like this blog PR has dropped and dropped straight down to zero from a PR of 5.
I’m totally clueless how this has happened and am hoping this is only a transition.
Or will I have to wait for another [...]

Orkut and Google Talk have now been integrated.
Follow these steps to link your Orkut account to Google.
Are you on Orkut? Add me to your list and scrap me.

After having thought about it a while I’ve decided to use Google Apps for Your Domain for AjayDSouza.com.
I have already been using Google Apps to manage WebberZone email for a while now, and now AjayDSouza.com
What this means is now I have a 2Gb Email account, which has all the features of Gmail (which [...]

You can now harness the power of Google to build your very own search engine tailored to sites you want to search.
Google has just launched Custom Search Engine. All you have to do is give it a name and select which sites you want it to search from. You have the option of either searching [...]

A few days back Text Link Ads released their Blog Juice Calculator.
It uses number of subscriptions at Bloglines, your Technorati and Alexa rankings and the incoming links from Google to arrive at a figure.
My blog juice as of now is 5.6. I’m sure it will fluctuate a lot as my Alexa rank fluctuates. I noticed [...]

Gautam pointed out this article in the Economic Times today about Google’s Social Networking Site, a.k.a. Orkut
In a nutshell, this is because of the “We Hate India” community which has been present on Orkut for a long time now. I’m stunned that Orkut has not done anything about it in so many months of [...]

After a great deal of speculation, discussions and debates, Google is finally set to acquire YouTube for $1.65m, a paltry sum indeed.
The official press release says that YouTube will continue to operate independently.
This ofcourse leaves the question of what will happen to Google Video.
Will it continue to run independently? Or will it now search within [...]

If you have been using Google Reader, you would have noticed that it doesn’t work with Opera as of now.
However, there is a fix available for the same which is very easy to apply.

Get hold of reader.js and save it to some location on your PC, e.g. C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\
In Opera, visit http://www.google.com/reader/ and then right [...]

You can now ping Google Blog Search directly when you post a new entry on your blog.
This is similar to pinging PingOMatic.
The benefit is that you can let blog search know that you have updated your blog as soon as you do it.
I don’t know how quickly they take to add this into their database, [...]

Not that you couldn’t do it before, but now Google search has been integrated perfectly with this blog.
I have still maintained the option of using the inbuilt search because that will give you the best result.
However, if you want to search comments as well, then Google can help you.
There are three ways for you to [...]