Google Webmaster Tools Now Shows Clickthrough Data

Google Webmaster Tools(GWT) “Top Search Queries” tool has got a complete makeover.The tool now shows complete data of impressions, clickthrough numbers on a daily basis in the form of charts much like the data in Google Analytics.

You can click on any given search query in the Top search queries report to see the number of impressions and the amount of clickthrough the site’s pages have generated for each position in search results (SERPs).

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To find this data for your sites, go to “Your site on the web” tab in Google Webmasters Tool and then click “Top search queries”.

This information is of huge importance to the webmasters as this insightful data is pretty much helpful for webmaster to optimize their title tags and meta descriptions to record higher clickthrough rates and also in other SEO factors.

Via Google Webmaster Central Blog

Drag And Drop Attachments Onto Message In Gmail

Gmail has announced yet another small but really a time saving feature to its users.Now you can just drag and drop attachments from your PC, onto the message in Gmail while you are composing it, provided you are using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6.

To add attachments to your email, just open the folder, where the target files (attachments) are located and now tile your windows so that you can see both the explorer window and resized browser windows.Now just drag the files on to the browser window and they will automatically be attached to your message.Follow the screenshots given below:

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As of now this new functionality is only available in Firefox or Chrome.But Google is planning to extend this to all other browsers as soon as they support this feature.

Via Official Gmail Blog

Speed Dial For Google Chrome [Extension]

Speed Dial is a browser feature that was first introduced in Opera to quickly access your favorite websites.Later the same feature was extended to the other browsers thanks to the numerous extensions that made this possible.Here we are talking about an extension called Speed Dial for Chrome that lets you to add Speed dial feature to Google Chrome.With this you can replace Google Chrome’s default new tab page with colorful speed dial.

Once installed, the extension can be customized by adding your favorite websites but even if you configure them, it’ll set some default speed dial websites based on your browsing history.You can also customize the background color/image, search options etc., from the options menu.

You can also add any page that you are currently viewing to the speed dial by just clicking the speed dial icon that appears on the extreme right in the address bar.

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Google’s New Launches: Google Follow Finder & Twitter Replay

Google is clearly showing its love for Twitter nowadays.Yesterday (April 14, 2010) Google has made 2 announcements both relating to twitter related features launch in Google.

The first one which was announced earlier was called Google’s Twitter replay that lest you search.Twitter replay will allow you to recall what had happened on anyway in the past courtesy the twitter tweets.To use this feature, click on the “Show Options” when you search for anything in Google.Then choose “Updates” from the sidebar menu.You can see a horizontal graphic chart which represents the volume of the tweets tweeted within a particular period of time, you can always go back to the history by using the backward arrow link just below the chart.You can click on any date/period to see the tweets about that topic in the given period.To see how it actually works, follow this link.

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Google Follow Finder:

Google Follow Finder is yet another Twitter related feature that was announced by Google yesterday.Follow finder analyzes public social graph information on twitter to find people that you might want to follow on Twitter.To use this feature, enter Google Follow Finder site and enter your Twitter user name and search for Tweeps.

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[Spotted] Google Testing New Colorful version

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For the past few weeks I have been spotting a brand new colorful version of Google in Google Chrome (working only with google.co.in but not with google.com).As I digged into find more about this, I came to know that only few people around the world are currently seeing this new version, luckily I am one amongst them.

The main improvement in the new version is the addition of colorful icons on the left hand side of the search window (enabled by default) which are only used to show up in current version only when you click “Show Options” link.Also as you can see in the following screenshots (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in my case), your current location is being added below the search box (which you can change anytime).

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Here are the screen shots that I have taken on my laptop.

Screen Shots:

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I don’t know many number of people getting this, I personally like this new version.I would really like to hear from you about this, if you are also getting this Google’s new version.

Google Buzz Official Share Buttons Released

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We had earlier posted about Google buzz counter buttons for websites.

Google has today announced the official Google Buzz share buttons for websites.The unofficial buttons that we have been using till now are created based on Google reader.As Google raises the point correctly, not every Buzz user uses Google Reader nor not every website owner is so tech savvy to implements hacks for using Buzz buttons.

Many sharing platforms including ShareThis , Meebo, Shareholic, AddThis and AddtoAny have added buzz in their sharing services list.

Get’em :

If you are a webmaster and want to get Buzz button widgets for your websites, visit this page and configure the buttons for use and copy-past the JavaScript in your site where you want them to  appear.

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Firefox Lorentz: Google Chrome Like Plugin Crash Handling

Firefox has yesterday released a new beta of Firefox 3.6.3 (a test build) which will be called as Firefox Lorentz, intended to minimize the entire browser crashing due to crashing of a single or multiple plugins.Normally what happens in Firefox browser is that when a single plugins crashes for some reasons, the entire browser goes down in effect which now will no longer be the case.

Google Chrome has implemented similar feature way back in 2008 by isolating the pluigns process from normal browser’s process.So with such out-of-process plugins, only the errant plugin’s process gets damaged keeping the rest of the browser intact.

Download the Firefox Lorentz from the direct download link given below:

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Direct Download Link:

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UniverCell Hyderabad IndiBlogger Meet 2010 – A Beautiful Experience

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I was very much excited for this event as this was my first bloggers meet. The event was interesting in every part of it and didn’t even find a single boring moment (Which usually happens in most of the meets). It was very well organized and beautifully executed. We wholeheartedly thank the IndiBlogger team for organizing such an exciting event and we also thank UniverCell for sponsoring it.

I am putting forward my experience in the whole event below.

Hyderabad IndiBlogger Meet 2010

Image Source: Aditya

Arrival and Startup

I reached the venue at 1:50 PM, which was quite early and I was one of the first bloggers to arrive. The conference hall was almost empty. The IndiBlogger team showed a warm hospitality.

By 2:30 PM the Hall was almost full. But as we were expecting more attendees, the meet started around at 2:40 PM. The IndiBlogger team was introduced to us. We got to know the whole team and got the idea whom to catch if our blog is rejected from IndiBlogger. One of the team member even rode a bike from Mumbai to Hyderabad to attend the meet. The introductory video featuring Adolf Hitler showing his desire for attending the meet to fulfill his hunger for Hyderabadi Dum Biryani was completely superb and hilarious.

30 Seconds of Fame (The Most Exciting one)

We had to introduce ourselves in 30 seconds. I got to know a lot on new people. The blogosphere in Hyderabad included from Movie Directors, Government employees, IT professionals to Mothers, Pensioners, etc. Most of the blogs were about their personal experience, life, social problems. Some were about poetries, songs and others were about jokes, sensible bakwas, humours, nothing, everything and so on.

 

Some people were nervous about the introduction. And i don’t know why many people compared the intro part with a matrimonial event? It was an exciting one, grey haired people searching for other grey haired ones, jobless people searching for helpers job providers, etc.

Live & let comment

This was another fun part. Mingling with each other, getting to know new people and writing about the person whom you hardly know. Enjoyed every part of it.

My Comment chart was almost filled. So one commenter wrote:

follow@anicode: “This guy is getting a lot of comments. So I am gonna spam!”

My friend Supraja wrote: “Craziest person ever seen”. I didn’t understand why she had to express that I am crazy on the comment chart? Guess she got the guts as it was the IndiBlogger’s meet!

The UniverCell Blogger Quiz by Riyaz Usman

The quiz was an interesting and a well researched one. Many topics and discussions were covered from Wikipedia, facebook, to Tharoor’s Tweet. This part was engaging.

Mingling session / High Tea

We had a good time talking to new bloggers over a cup of coffee. Just felt that we Bloggers had constructed our own identity. As a blogger I felt really happy to see other bloggers around me.

IndiBlogger Forum: Open discussion

In this session we decided an open discussion forum for the Hyderabad Bloggers as hyderabadbloggers.in. Hope we got to meet each other in the forum soon.

At last there was a group photo session. It was fun. Everyone wanted another photo because of the reasons like I didn’t smile!

Confession and A Sincere Apology

I am really sorry that I forgot to return the sketch pen which I got for commenting. Sorry!

Jokes apart, I sincerely thank IndiBlogger and UniverCell for making this event happen. I thank you for the Hospitality and also the T-Shirt. We are looking forward for similar events in future. Our confidence and morale as a blogger has been greatly enhanced after this meet.

Thank You!

YouTube TEXTp : Google April Fools Day 2010 Pranks

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We have had many hilarious and innovative Google’s April Fool’s Day Pranks till now.And I have been so curious to know what Google will do for this Aril Fools Day 2010 and this time Google has planned it in YouTube as well as the new blog post in YouTube official blog suggests.

YouTube’s TEXTp (YouTube ASCII video filter) :

Yeah, TEXTp according to fellows at YouTube is similar to video quality mode (like 1080p HD), but the difference being it doesn’t contain any picture in the video other than text, lol Smile

TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements. By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system — and have the added benefit of promoting literacy!

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If you want to see letters dancing in air like how Dyslexia patients see them dancing Smile, just head over to this page and select “TEXTp” from the pull down menu in the video.

And do remember always to use text-only mode because :

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By using text-only mode, you are saving YouTube $1 a second in bandwidth costs.

[Hmm..Really ?? ]

To see how it looks like in action, watch this video

To fool your friends, append “&textp=fool” to the YouTube video URLs and share with them.

Ok then we will change YouTube’s name to TexTube from this time around, (of course fun :P)

This year’s other Google April Fools Day Hoaxes include :

 

  • Google Books available in Anachrome 3D
  • Store anything on Google Docs
  • Google Street View available in Anachrome 3D
  • Google Maps OCCA
  • Search results generated in different times
  • Animal Translator BETA
  • Topeka

Finally, this TEXTp is just ok Thumbs down, but didn’t reach my expectation though, something on the lines of Pigeon Rank (my favorite Google April Day Prank till now) would only have satisfied me Wink.And ya, Google fellows consider my advice: Textube sounds good Thumbs up, isn’t it??

Is this fun, what do you guys think ? Happy Fools Day, BTW Hot

Google India Launches New Shopping Tool In Google Search

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Online shopping is yet to gain momentum in India.The high prices in online sites compared to open market  prices is a major barrier for the slow progress of online shopping particularly true in case of gadgets.

However, this is not the case with countries like US where online shopping has revolutionised the market, and the popularity automatically follows huge competition and thus lesser prices even compared to open market prices in such countries.

The reason behind mentioning about online shopping status in India is because Google has just launched a new feature “Shopping tool” in it’s Indian website.This can be accessed from the “Show options” menu when you search for any purchasable item in Google.

How To Use Google Shopping Tool To Find And Compare Prices Online?

Well, Google shopping tool will provide you with some basic information about the price of a particular item and also online price comparisons of the same item in different online shopping sites.

Just search for any item (ex: Nokia 5800) in Google.Click on the “Show options” link to expand the options.

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In the options menu click “Shopping” tab

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Now you will have the price details of your item (Nokia 5800 here) according to various online shopping sites.Just review and compare the prices from different online shopping sites.

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You can also filter results by entering custom price range which you can find the in the options menu > Shopping > Prices tab