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Google PageRank Updated on 3rd April, 2010

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Google PageRank has been updated on 3rd April, 2010. It was announced earlier that the next PageRank update after the January 2010 update will be in April, the update was seen yesterday. This is a happy news for all the bloggers.

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Bloggers all over the world have a lot of concern for Google PageRank.As far as I am concerned, I believe that Google PageRank shows the quality of your posts, and also the reach and design of your blog. Techrena.net has got a PageRank of 3 this time which was 2 previoulsy. We are very happy with the update and consider it as a gift to techrena.net’s birthday which was on 27th March.

As far as we have observed most of the bloggers are satisfied with the page rank update and most of us take it as a catalyst to our hard work.

You  can check the PageRank of your blog using the Google Toolbar:

http://toolbar.google.com/

Goo.gl, Youtu.be URL Shorteners

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There seems to be URL shortening competition going around the web off late.Every one is going crazy about shortening those looooong URLs, thanks to twitter.

Now it’s Google turn, Google has launched 2 such URL shortening services.

1.Goo.gl :

Goo.gl service has been launched for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner.Just install latest Google Toolbar for Internet explorer to be able to use this.

Google toolbar with Share option

Share goo.gl links in Google toolbar

As shown in the above screenshot, the shortened goo.gl link can be shared with your friends in various social networking services.

Creating Goo.gl links Using Firefox

But as of now there’s no such option in Firefox version of the Google Toolbar.But still, there is a Firefox extension which will do the same for you without installing the toolbar.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet:

(Thanks to Matt for this Bookmarklet)

Goo.gl This  <goo.gl bookmarklet link with prompt for copying

Just drag it to the your bookmarks in case of Firefox, Safari, Opera(?) or just add it to Favourites in case of Internet Explorer.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet URL Shortener

Video:Google Toolbar with Share

2.Youtu.be :

If Goo.gl isn’t enough for you, there’s a new dedicated URL shortening service Youtu.be which shortens the YouTube URLs whenever you favourite a video using your YouTube account.

Using Youtu.be Manually:

Replace the "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/"

Or just copy the video-id (the string after ‘?v=’ in the YouTube URL) of the video(cebbvcMW5Uo in this case) and paste it after ‘youtu.be/’ part.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebbvcMW5Uo

http://youtu.be/cebbvcMW5Uo

Facebook too is getting into URL Shortening service with ‘fb.me’

Happy URL shortening folks…

Install Google Toolbar 5.0.2009.0324b for Firefox

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Google Toolbar version 5.0.2009.0324b for Firefox  2+ version users is available now for download (updated on April 13,2009).As many of us know Google Toolbar had introduced the famous Google Chrome feature viz., Most Visited Sites access in the toolbar, the same feature is obviously available in this version too.

Google Toolbar For a complete list of features of Google Toolbar, visit Google toolbar page

You can also add your custom buttons to Toolbar by choosing from Google Toolbar Button Gallery

Google Toolbar Screenshot

Firefox 2+ Users, install Google Toolbar 5.0.2009.0324 [Beta Version] from this Firefox add-on page