Archive for January, 2008

Google Suggesting Your Tag Phrases

You can always rely on Google to make fantastic things we can’t resist.
This time they have made a thing called Google Suggest.
You start typing a search term into the google search box and it shows you other phrases commonly searched for and how many search results there are for that term.
It’s very cool. It’s free, [...]

Finding My Own Lens On Google

I just had quite a bizarre experience.
I was searching Google to try and see if there was a blog that existed where the owner just wrote posts about things they wish existed in real life. Kind of like my post here last week wishing the guestbook limit was increased, but for things in every day [...]

Google and Squidoo… sitting in a tree… K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

For those of you still worried about a ‘Squidoo Slap’, here is something interesting to think about.
With Google, when you search for a person’s name followed by the word age or birthday you will get a little result (from an authority site) at the top that tells you the date of birth.
And here is what [...]

SquidCasting Tips (getting more visitors, and spreading your links)

Thefluffanutta has just published some helpful tips for using SquidCasts more effectively.
Here they are: 
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All of the casts you make will be published in the lens RSS feed, and potentially syndicated elsewhere, so make sure your titles are good ones. The title of each cast will be linked to your lens, and search engines will use [...]

Approving Comments: Now displayed on your…

Now displayed on your… dashboard!
If you scroll to the bottom of  your list of lenses, you’ll see that you can now approve or delete comments from ALL of your lenses.
This is AMAZING news, because you now won’t miss a single comment, and it’s a LOT quicker than getting the emails in your inbox and clicking [...]