According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today. Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as are Google Docs, Google News and Google Groups. Other sites and apps that were previously and remain blocked include YouTube, search suggestions, Google [...]
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July 29th, 2010
Oldest Twitter user dies at 104
Ivy Bean, 104, began tweeting last year from her residential home in the outskirts of Bradford in northern England, and amassed over 56,000 followers with posts telling of food, family visits, and even an invitation from Gordon Brown to meet the then Prime Minister in Downing Street. Ivy had fallen ill last month, and her [...]
Tags: July 28th, 2010
36 RSS Feed Distributions To Promote Your Site
Many website owners, especially bloggers utilize RSS feeds to distribute their content. For those that use Feedburner, you’ve probably already chosen a few services to further publicize your feeds. But there are also a number of additional directories available to further promote RSS feeds to help you increase visitor numbers. I found a list of RSS [...]
July 27th, 2010
Yahoo Japan Signs Search Deal With Google
Yahoo Japan said it will be switching Yahoo’s search technology with Google’s search engine, dealing a serious blow to the global Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership. In July 2009, Yahoo signed a deal with Microsoft, under which Yahoo was to adopt Microsoft’s Bing as the search engine on all Yahoo sites. However, Yahoo only has a minority stake [...]
July 26th, 2010
10 Less Known Facebook Features
Facebook recently surpassed 300 million registered users, meaning it’s becoming increasingly vital to your online and offline social graph. Whether you use Facebook primarily for your personal life, business purposes or both, this list of tips will help you gauge how well you’re already using Facebook’s tools and perhaps offer advice on how to make [...]
July 24th, 2010
Will linking to other sites, reduce your Page Rank ?
Google PageRank is calculated by the number of internal links to your site and Google has repeatedly stated that the number of outgoing links from your site have no direct implications on your PageRank. Fair enough. But I’d invite you to look at this from a different perspective. Rather than bothering about the number of [...]
July 21st, 2010
5 Tips to create an excellent search engine optimized landing page
These days, landing pages are being used very frequently, even though they have evolved from the cheesy designs and glaring oddities. These days landing pages come with sexy designs and the best compelling copies, that can convince you in seconds. We’ve seen many good examples of modern, sleek looking landing pages, which are eye candies [...]
July 17th, 2010
Use isset() Instead of strlen()
This is actually a neat trick. Here is the example: <?php if (isset($username[5])) { // The username is at least six characters long. } ?> When you treat strings as arrays, each character in the string is an element in the array. By determining whether a particular element exists, you can determine whether the string [...]
