Google

Today I’m introducing Google’s Webmaster Central. The Webmaster Tools are one of the tools most blog owners in Taiwan use. Besides analyzing where your site’s SEO falls short, this service also lets you submit a Sitemap to Google, which is a site map. The Webmaster Tools can also check whether your site has malware and how fast it loads. But to use any of these features, you first have to make sure your URL has been indexed by Google! So in this post, I’ll cover the following: ...

After a long wait, I finally received a Google Wave invitation. I’m sure many of you have heard of Google Wave. It’s a new service Google is about to launch, combining email with many other Google services. It’s a bit like MSN (because it’s real-time). Honestly, I don’t fully understand what Google Wave is about, so I’ll quote someone else’s article below. Google Wave is still in testing, and you need an invitation to use it. I’d been asking for invitations on various forums, and I finally got one. Here are some Google Wave pictures for you XD. I’m still figuring out how to send invitations to other people~ ...

Google Maps, the electronic map service from Google, has added yet another new feature. Calling it “new” isn’t quite accurate, though. It’s really the first time it has appeared in the Taipei version. The feature is called Street View Preview. What is it? I’m sure everyone has seen electronic maps before. They usually look like picture A: ...

I imagine many people need to bring a map when they go out to travel. Google Maps, which I’m introducing today, is a free map service provided by Google. You can print the map, so you don’t have to go buy one at 7-11! Google Maps also makes heavy use of AJAX, so you won’t see a blank white screen while browsing. Website: http://maps.google.com.tw/ ...

I actually discovered that Google can look up movie showtimes when I went to see a movie with a “friend” last time. We had agreed to see a movie, but we didn’t know what time it was playing, so I looked it up online. To my surprise, I found something that shocked me: Google, the all-powerful, even has movie showtimes = = .. And it’s very complete! Google may be a god, but even a god shouldn’t be greedy, you know~~ (I’m lecturing Google!!) Enough chatter, let’s get straight to this Google movie showtimes search feature. Website: http://www.google.com.tw/movies . ...

I’m sure you’re all curious about which websites contain links to your site! Here I’ll show you how to search with the link syntax. It’s a Google operator that lists the websites that link to your site, and note that the unit here is websites, not pages, so let Ting-feng walk you through this syntax! Syntax: link:URL Replace URL with your site's domain, without "http://"...

We already covered Google Reader in the post “Google Reader: Online RSS Reader.” I said back then that it had lots of amazing features, but I didn’t explain them very clearly. So now I’ll show you how to use Google Reader to build RSS applications. The first one is the broadcast network. If you blog a lot, you probably know what that is! It automatically posts the new articles from every participating blog, which raises the visibility of everyone’s posts. It’s a really great technique XD ...

Recently I noticed that my popularity suddenly went up. Do you know why? It’s because this blog has been added to the Google search engine. So now you can find this blog when you search on Google! That brought in quite a lot of traffic XD I never expected anyone to come visit, given how bad my SEO is……… P.S. This post now ranks above the original creator’s post = =