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I’m certainly not addicted to web stats. This blog has a Google Analytics marker but I don’t follow the statistics on a regular base. After all, I’m blogging for fun and I don’t need to keep my audience at a certain amount or don’t need to attract more visitors – even if a growing audience [...]

Google released interesting statistics about the number of requests they received from Governments Agencies around the world. If you offer free services on the Internet, they are (mis)chances that people will try to abuse of them. Google is certainly not the exception with all the services they provide: webmail, web indexes, collaborative tools and all [...]

One more time, companies asked the help of the Justice to fight against Google. This time, the Google Suggest tool is the target. This service is quite simple and you probably use it on a daily basis. When you type your search terms in the search engine, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time. Google [...]

Once again, Google hit hard! They announced yesterday a new service via their blog: Google Public DNS. The new Google baby is a public DNS resolver open to everyone. Just reconfigure your TCP/IP stack to use the following DNS server and you’re done! 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Google’s arguments are in direct line with the current DNS [...]

Unusual but tonight, Gmail was unavailable as reported by the Google Apps Status Dashboard. Besides the fact that more and more people rely on the number-one webmail interface to handle their e-mails, this problem has impacted other Internet social services like Twitter! When the problem was detected by users, they immediately tweeted to ask if [...]

The Google toolbar is a powerful add-on for your browser. It adds very nice features (of course, to be used sparingly if you don’t want Google to know everything about you). There is also an API which offers extra features for webmasters such as creating custom buttons. Here is a quick how-to to add custom [...]

I was driving into Brussels this afternoon and saw two Google cars. The second one stopped just in front of me at a traffic light. The cameras were recording (I saw some activity on the LEDs on top of the cams). I wrote down the place and time. Let’s see now how much time it [...]

The Cult of the Death Cow team is back with a new toy called Goolag. One more time, the Google search engine power is diverted to help webmasters to find security breaches in their web site(s). Of course, as a good boy, you will always use Goolag against your own site! Isn’t it? :-] [1] [...]