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Google has launched IMAP access for Gmail for about a month but I never get it working yet…until today. Gmail required secure connection (SSL) to connect to the IMAP server. The default non-secure connection port used is 143. SSL connection should use port 993.
Over the past week, many webmasters and bloggers got hit by Google by decrease their websites’ PageRank. Many top blogs got slapped as well. How to rescue your PageRank?
Gmail decided to speed up the counter to give out more free storage. Current increasing rate is about 1.5KB per second, and Gmail space is over 3GB.
Google Analytics is free powerful enterprise level web traffic analyzer but most users do not take advantage of the features. Google Analytics Short Cut is a 85 page PDF ebook packed full of information about Google Analytics. Written by Justin Cutroni, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant. The goal of the book is to help users to configure Google Analytics to meet their business needs.
Google released the final video of Gmail Behind the Scenes Video project. The Gmail envelope went through sky to undersea, passing by human, robots, animals… a great video I watched over and over again!
Now you can add a Google Map to your website or blog by copy & paste HTML code. Just like the way you embed YouTube video player to your site. No more requirement of API key and JavaScript knowledge.
Have you ever want to search web results in other language that you are not familiar with? Now you can do it easily with Google Translate’s search websites in another language.
Google AdSense announced a new feature for Blogger.com users to allow them insert AdSense ads in between blog posts. Member can select how often to display ads, example: show ads after two posts. Here is the step-by-step instruction to insert AdSense ads between Blogger blog posts
Google now allows you to purchase additional storage. The additional storage will be shared across Google products, currently Gmail and Picasa Web Albums. Soon, other applications like Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
John Chow, a popular money making blogger, has his blog rank dropped in Google search engine results page (SERP). His blog no longer get the top ranking for “making money online”, not even get into the first few pages of SERP for searching his name or blog’s domain name. John Chow has been penalized by Google.