Category Archives: Google

What is Google’s Project Glass?

In the beginning of this month Google announced commencement of Project Glass –an augmented reality research and development project. For sure, Google has been working on the project for past … Read more

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Create Survey Forms with Google Docs

Google Docs is an online office suite which allows you to create and save word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, drawings and tables etc. In addition to these features, Google Docs also … Read more

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Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Eadweard J. Muybridge

Today Google is paying respect to Eadweard J. Muybridge on his 182nd birthday, one of the most important photographers in history. Google has created a nice doodle and placed it … Read more

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Virtual Tour of the White House

Google has photographed all the publicly accessible places inside the White House. And now, they have put these photographs together to form a virtual tour of the official residence of … Read more

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What Type of Blogs Attract High CPC Ads?

A TechWelkin reader and a friend of mine has asked me an interesting question. He wants to know which categories of blogs attract higher paying Google ads. I know that … Read more

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Track Your Google Account with Account Activity

Google is not only providing people with the facilities that are becoming almost indispensable –but also it knows how to keep you from getting lost amidst host of Google services. … Read more

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Benefits of Linking Google AdSense and Analytics

Google Analytics is one of the best tools around to keep track of traffic on your website. Analytics provides comprehensive data and easy-to-use reports for your consumption. This information can … Read more

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Use of CSS to Alter Look of AdSense Ads

Many AdSense publishers become desperate when their CTR and CPC seem to have become adamant and just refuse to boost up. After seeing that all the ad style juggling through … Read more

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Ad Blindness: How to Avoid and Overcome

Website owners who display advertisements on their web pages sooner or later face the effect of a phenomenon called “ad blindness”. This is also known as “banner blindness”. Ad blindness … Read more

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Gmail to Give Reason of Marking a Message as Spam

Google has announced that from today, it will tell the Gmail users as to why a particular message was marked and filtered as spam message. Now, if you’ll go to … Read more

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Watch Hindi TV Serials on YouTube

YouTube India has added a “TV Shows” link in the top navigation bar. Clicking on the link –you will enter the world of TV serials ranging from modern soap operas … Read more

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Create Floating Bar Like Gmail and Facebook

Many people ask me about how to create a Gmail like floating bar. Facebook also uses this technique. Although it is a bit jerky but the technique quite useful in … Read more

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Remove Page URLs from Google Search Index

Sometimes, you may want to remove one or more URLs of your website from the Google search results. Intent of removal of just one or few URLs may arise due … Read more

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Google Penalty: Why You Should Not Copy Content

Many people who believe in shortcuts of making money tend to fall for the trap of deliberate content duplication. Attracted by advertisements like “Google blessed me with $500 a day” … Read more

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Amusing Google Easter Eggs (E-Eggs)

In computer terminology, Easter Eggs or E-eggs are the functionality or tricks hidden inside a piece of software. E-eggs are planted by software programmers and are mostly aim to amuse … Read more

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YouTube Top 10: Most Viewed Viedos of All Time

The first video on YouTube was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim on 23 April 2005 at 8:27PM. The video was titled Me at the Zoo and is still available on … Read more

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Google AdSense: Yellow Box Appears for a Brief Moment

Google serves its ads in an <ins> tag. Some of the blog themes do define a style for this tag and usually it is because of this style that you … Read more

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Important Tip: First Adsense Ad Matters a Lot

Well, using Google AdSense is easy. Apply, get approval, paste ad code in your website and ta da! You are done! AdSense ads will being to appear on your webpages. … Read more

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How to Use Section Targeting in Google Adsense

Google has realized that on websites (especially on blogs) there is some information which is not suitable for ad display decision making. Such information mostly lies in the sidebars and … Read more

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Google Ads in a Fixed Floating DIV

Users of Google Adsense often ask a question: Is it okay to show Adsense advertisements in a fixed div element (created by position:fixed in the style property) Well, the answer … Read more

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How to Add Your Author Picture in Google Search Results

While searching on Google, you might have seen that with some of the search results Google shows the article author’s photo. Many people think that Google automatically selects people for … Read more

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Drag and Drop Similar Image Search in Google Images

Google’s innovation knows no stopping! If you have a picture on your computer -you can find similar images using Google Image search! Check it out: Go to Google Images Search … Read more

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Google Graveyard: List of Failed Google Products

It was not until Google Wave went under water in 2010 that I seriously began to think about failed Google products. Google and failure? Nay! But failure of Google Wave … Read more

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Varsha Gupta Wins Doodle4Google Contest 2011

Today, India is celebrating Children’s Day. To mark the occasion, Google is using a doodle made by Varsha Gupta in place of its logo on the dominant search engine home … Read more

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Tips for Efficient Google Search – Part 2

In the previous part of this two part series we discussed operators like plus, minus, synonym, phrase, number range and wildcard operators. In this second part we are going to … Read more

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