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New daylight savings dates can affect your computer calendar (PCs and Macs)

This year’s new daylight savings dates (March 11th to November 4th, instead of April 1st to October 28th) can cause the time zone settings for your computer’s system clock to be incorrect during this four week period. This is somewhat like the Year 2000 bug; that is, the operating systems and the applications have a [...]

Google Subdomains – New Google Projects

UK-based developer Tony Ruscoe, doing some routine Google sleuthing, believes he may have uncovered a few quiet Google projects. Judging solely from subdomains, one might surmise Google has a lot up its sleeve. When Google unveiled a smattering of this past Spring, there also came with the unveiling a promise that this would be a [...]

Google Tests CPA (Cost-Per-Action)

Google Inc. confirmed they are testing a new ad-pricing model that would have advertisers pay a fee when online consumers buy a product, qualify as a sales lead or sign onto a mailing list. This model, (referred to as “cost-per-action”) is seen as a way to deliver a better return on investment to advertisers, and [...]

Chaos at Google, What's next?

The inside story of disorder, disarray, and uncertainty at Google. And why it’s all part of the plan. (They hope.)   In a story that appeared in Fortune magazine, investors are concerned whether Google can come up with a “second act”. Its new products haven’t made nearly the splash that its original search engine did. Even Google’s [...]

New Search Engines and Directories

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Judge Considers $90M Google Settlement

A U.S. judge begins weighing objections this week to a $90 million class-action settlement between Internet search leader Google Inc. and advertisers who say they were victims of “click fraud.”Plaintiffs in a class-action suit argued Monday that Google has not exercised reasonable care to prevent “click fraud” and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from [...]

The Web Word Processor from Google

http://www.writely.com/ Google quietly opens up Writely Filed under: Applications Despite all its fans, Google opened up public sign-ups to Writely, its online word-processing application, late last week with little fanfare. Google snagged Writely last March, and until last Thursday, only a limited number of beta users had a crack at playing with it. Now anyone [...]

6 Kinds of Email Scams To Be On the Lookout For

Never believe promises from strangers, especially when they arrive via e-mail. Most of the time, these are old-fashioned scams delivered via the newest technology and should be deleted promptly. The Federal Trade Commission offers the following examples of common scam offers that Internet users should ignore. • Work-at-home schemes often promise opportunities that never materialize. [...]

WWW Stats

Number of web users: 1.1 billion Number of web searches per month: 5.7 billion Number of webpages viewed per household, per month (excluding any work viewing): 1373 the kings speech film hd part Number of hours per month of web viewing by home PC users: 28 Time spent in each web surfing session: 51 minutes [...]

Internet history

August 6 2006 was the 15 year anniversary of the first web page posting!  Tim Berners-Lee had a vision of it being “a force for individual, regional and global understanding.”  Check out the growth in number of websites over the years: 1992: 50 1993: 150 1994: 3000 1995: 25,000 1996: 250,000 1997: 1.2 million 2001: [...]