Facebook Ads vs. Google Adwords
WordStream has an infographic that takes a detailed look at Facebook Ads network and Google Adwords and Adsense as it stands today. Google is a clear winner currently. But, does Facebook stand a chance?
Google acquires Motorola for $12.5bn
Google is known for its acquisitions, including the $1.65bn acquisition of Youtube in 2006. However, this time they have completely outdone themselves with their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
Google Search Made More Musical
Tired of unsuccessfully looking for a song? Know the name of the artist but not the band? Know the band the but not the song title?
How to add your Google Apps Mail account to Thunderbird
One thing that I love about Postbox is it’s complete support for tonnes of email services. However, sadly, Postbox has turned paid. As a result, I decided to give Thunderbird 3 beta a shot.
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Backup Google Documents to local hard-disk with GDocBackup
You’d think that after the success of their web based office tools Google would offer a simple backup solution to safeguard your online documents. I’m not sure when they’re going to enter with their solution however we as user no longer need to wait on them! Say hello to GDocBackup, an open source, freeware Google document backup utility that backups your documents by exporting them into a readable file format onto your hard disk.
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Undo Sending email in Gmail
Ever send an email out only to realize you’ve forgotten an attachment or even worse, it’s gone to the wrong person! Now, in Gmail Labs, you’ll find a new feature that will delay the sent email for five seconds before it is sent. During this time you will be hit the Undo button and stop the email from being sent.
Google, Services
Gmail finally fixes Mark as Unread
One thing ever Gmail user loves is the conversation view. However, one painful experience with the conversation view is the "Mark as Unread" feature which used to mark the entire conversation as unread, which means that you had to figure out exactly which was the first unread post, the next time you opened up the conversation again. This has always been a painful experience especially if you have ten or more emails as part of the conversation.
Google, News
Google Adsense to launch Interest-based advertising. Update your Privacy Policy
Google Adsense Team announced the launch of interest-based advertising. This will be offered to a limited number of advertisers over the next few months as part of the beta before a full fledged launch in late 2009. So, what is interest-based advertising To develop interest categories, we’ll recognize the types of webpages users visit across the AdSense network.
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Conversations – Now on Google Reader
Google Reader isn’t really my favorite feed reader since I prefer Feed Demon for this purpose. However, I know a lot of users who swear by Google Reader mainly because it is online and accessible from anywhere. Last year Google Reader added the ability to share feeds and added a sharing bookmarklet to make this task even easier.
Gmail – Better Uploads, Titlebar Tweaks & your own theme
Gmail is in super duper update mode! Over the last week we’ve seen some awesome updates to the interface. Multi-select Uploads with Progress Bar You can now select more than one file in the same folder by hitting Ctrl key in Windows or Cmd in Mac OS X.
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Google Improves Contact Search in Gmail
We reported earlier this week that you can now merge your contacts in Gmail. The same has been announced officially on the Gmail blog. Besides merging contacts, Suggested Contacts has been removed and this has been replaced by All Contacts.
Merge your Gmail Contacts
The Gmail team has been very very busy this last month or so. First we had the Send and Archive button. Next came the ability to store email offline.