Malayalam typing made easy with Google IME

January 7th, 2010 by Sunil

For the couple of year back, it was very hard to type Malayalam on computers. For generating a single character we need to use combination of keys in some Malayalam softwares.  It is very hard to remember the combination keys and it is time killing.

Earlier, Google has started Google transliteration for web interface.  So it is very easy to type Malayalam in  Blogger, Gmail, Knol, Orkut etc. Now Google has released a standalone software which you can download and install on your machine.  So even if you don’t have internet connection you can type Malayalam.

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Configure your DNS with Google public DNS

December 7th, 2009 by Sunil

I blogged earlier about how to set up Open DNS on your Ubuntu Operating System. Yesterday I heard that Google also providing free DNS. I just tried myself and I felt that has better performance, security and correct results.

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Check your pagerank with PaRaMeter – a free, bulk page rank checking software

May 15th, 2009 by Sunil

Google pagerank will be a craze for the SEO masters. So page rank checking is so important for them. Finding an appropriate tool is important. It should be ease the life for them. 

I have been checking for such a tool which checks all the pages in my blog for rank. There is a lot of page rank checking tool. But in that, we have to manually copy paste the URLs one by one. There may be a limitation of up to 50 URLs or something. So it is time taking.

Finally I found such a ranking tool which will check all the URLs in the website. We have to pass the only URL of the site. That’s all. The software called “PaRaMeter” stands for Page Ranking Meter. It is a free page rank checking and monitoring tool. We can call it as a bulk page rank checker.

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'Sunil’s blog' and 'Google Dance'

February 22nd, 2009 by Sunil

I started this blog 3 months back. I had been really happy because of the Google’s indexing. But things are changed now. I am feeling something wrong. I had been in 2nd position for the keyword ‘Sunil blog’. Last Thursday onwards this keyword showing in the 2nd page for the blog myhtmlworld.com.

I had no clue about this. I checked with my colleagues and my colleague Sadiq found one interesting article. I think ‘Google Dance’ may be the reason for pulling off the keyword ‘Sunil blog’? Huh! I couldn’t found any other reason.

What is ‘Google Dance’?

The term ‘Google Dance’ means the period when Google is rebuilding its rankings. This time results may be widely fluctuate for a 3 to 5 day period.

I am not that much techie to explain this term

Please visit this article to get more about Google Dance

http://www.metamend.com/google-dance.html

http://dance.efactory.de/

This may be the reason to pulling off my website for 2nd page for that keyword? What do you think? Let’s see.

I am writing this post only to introduce ‘Google Dance’; I wont care even if Google throw me out from the Google search results ;)

Google Webmaster community on Orkut

February 15th, 2009 by Sunil

Google India has launched a webmaster community on Orkut to help developers / webmasters  for better crawling and indexing their pages on Google.

Google said that 83% of Indian sites do not use XML Sitemaps and 50% of them do not make use of the robots.txt file.

Google claimed that it would help the Indian webmasters for getting better answers to questions regarding their websites. Now you can send a scrap to your friend and get a solution to every webaster related problem.

Join Webmaster community on Orkut

Check the original post on Google India blog about the Webmaster community on Orkut.

Does the page rank really matter?

January 11th, 2009 by Sunil

There was a recent page rank update from Google on this December. Many of the SEO people may notice that. Some websites got a better page rank and some websites lost their existing page rank. 

What are real factors that affect the page ranking? (Really I don’t know!)

According to the words of Google, “PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.”

And Google is saying that it depends on the links of the page and other links which are coming to the website. (Incoming links). 

google-pagerank

But the last update from Google was not on this policy? I hosted this blog around 1 and half months back only (28th of November). I don’t have much incoming links. But I got page rank 3. But some good sites which have a lot of incoming links lost their page rank. Any of them could find any reason for this? What do you think? 

Now I am feeling like that Google page rank is not a big thing…You may miss the page rank at any time? Build your web page for your visitors not just for search engines!

Google Malayalam news went crazy

December 30th, 2008 by Sunil

When I was checking Google news in Malayalam, I found that the news were not in a right category, check the screenshots. Check the category and the news.

Google Malayalam News

Google Malayalam News

Google news malayalam

Google news malayalam

Google SMS services – amazing service from Google

December 1st, 2008 by Sunil

Today I have seen Google’s new service called Google SMS. You can now search anything from your mobile phone through SMS (Short Message Service) with free of cost. (You have to pay to your service provider for sending SMS – don’t forget that).

You can get the ticket status of train, schedules of train, restaurant information and more… Just try it out. All you need is send an sms to 9-77-33-00000 (without “-“). Eg: Get the PNR status of Indian Railway. Then send sms to PNR <number> to 9773300000.

I think it is country depended. So you have to check the customized (country wise) domain name of Google. Eg: For India,http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels

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