Archive | December, 2007

Google’s (and parents’) role in keeping kids safe online

Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet EvangelistWe know that technologies like the “v-chip” can be used to keep kids from seeing inappropriate content on TV. And while technology has an important role to play in protecting kids online, it’s as important …

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Boost Your Willpower by Exercising your Mental Muscle

All of us have struggled to maintain self-control. Whether it is to have that last drink at a party, or a a cookie before dinner. An interesting article today in the New York times seems to suggest that self-control is a form of mental muscle that can improve with training. Studies now show that self-control [...]

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Easily Import Song Ratings to iTunes

Updated A few years ago I was given an iPod. Like many, I loaded all of my songs into iTunes and used it as my primary music player. At some point iTunes stopped working and nothing I did would get it working again. At that point, I switched to an alternate music player, JRiver’s MediaCenter. [...]

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Answering more popular picks: meta tags and web search

Written by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, ZürichIn writing and maintaining accurate meta tags (e.g., descriptive titles and robots information), you help Google to more accurately crawl, index and return your site in search results. Meta tags…

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Easy way to track time spent on projects

I’ve used a few different project management programs, my current favorite is Basecamp. However, Basecamp wants to treat everything as a project and gets in your way if you want to track time spent on tasks that are not bound to a specific project. Today, for example, I need to track some time spent on [...]

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Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank

Written by Matt Cutts and Maile OhyeOur goal is to provide users the best search experience by presenting equitable and accurate results. We enjoy working with webmasters, and an added benefit of our working together is that when you make better and mo…

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