Have you ever tried to search some information for your assignment or project using Google Search but ended up getting some spam rubbish instead? Maybe the first few search results are relevant to what you searched, but the other are just plain rubbish.

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped felt the frustration, thus, created Spam Google, which utilises Google Search but will only give you spam results instead of what you want.

Just as Spam Google’s slogan “Just the noise.” says, you will only find advertisement spam and all sorts of crap.
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Spam Google – You’ll Find Only Rubbish

Well, usually I will avoid writing the same news others have already posted, but this is too big as a news for all bloggers and blog readers as well. Even if I write about the same news, I will try to get as much extra information or links to add some value to my post.

Anyway, Google has just launched its latest service, Google Reader. I lost count how many new services has Google launched in this year. Basically, Google Reader is like a one-stop online feed reader, which allows you to subscribe to any website with any form of feeds (RSS or Atom) then read them online.

I ain’t going to write a review of Google Reader, instead just to give you some idea what are the basic features. Other than subscribing to the feeds that you have known from the website that you visit often, you can search and subscribe to new feeds too. For example, as shown in the following figure, say you want to subscribe to feeds regarding mobile phone, the search will give a list of famous websites’ feeds.
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Google Reader – A Place To Read Feeds

In August, a breaking news spreaded out regarding the city of San Francisco of the United State will become a wide scale free WiFi zone that covers the entire city. Then exactly 1 month later, I talked about the the free secure VPN service for broadband offered by Google, which I thought very much related to the news above.

Today, I come across an article reveals that Google has already confirmed the plan to provide free WiFi service to the entire San Francisco city.

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The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s request for information for the city wide network.

This news spreaded rapidly after the confirmation from Google officials, who also revealed that San Francisco people will enjoy a free 300Kbps (kilobits per second), always on connection anywhere in the city. The speed is not very promising, but it is totally FREE. Anyway, this speed reminds me of my first broadband experience when I was surfing the Internet at the speed of 384Kbps 2 years back.
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Google Confirms San Francisco Free WiFi Service

Many Windows users are waiting for the forthcoming version of Windows, Windows Vista, to be launched, while many still skeptical to the upgrade. Before this, I have shared a review of Windows Vista and also some screen shots too.

If you are still having any doubt about the next Windows, Microsoft specially prepared a dedicated page on their website that gives you the confidence to upgrade. Let’s have a look of what Microsoft says about Windows Vista.

Well, I only list some highlighted features as follows:-

• Parental Controls – Parental control features that helps in monitoring and controlling children’s computer usage.
• Fast On and Off – This is what I like the most, according to Microsoft, Windows Vista starts or turns off within only 2 – 3 seconds !!
• Diagnostics – While the current hardware/software diagnostics feature in current/previous Windows is not very satisfying, I really hope this improved version can perform better.
• New look and feel – Well, as usual, a new version of Windows will definitely have a new look and feel. This time, Windows Vista will have transparent application interface as been speculating so far.
• Media Center – Easy-to-use Media Center menu system and remote control of entertainment files such as movies, songs and pictures.

Now almost all of us know ad-free Opera Browser is free for download. In case you don’t, go read the post via the link.

After the stunning announcement, Opera reached 1 Million downloads in 2 days !! The record doubles the previous highest download in April when Opera Software released Opera 8. Opera was even curious enough to track who were the downloaders too, who else? Internet Explorer users, they were.

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According to server logs, a majority of downloads came from Internet Explorer users.

A rough figure shows the annual income from selling Opera is around USD$3.9 Million. So, you might wonder, why all of a sudden Opera Software had such a thought of turning one of their money-making products into a freeware? Well, there is definitely a story behind it.
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Thanks To Google For Making Opera Free

I have just mentioned one of the Google free service, Google Web Accelerator, in the comment of previous post. Coincidentally, Google Web Accelerator has silently re-open for download after more than 4 month of shutting down the download link due to the reach of their maximum capacity of users.

As I have mentioned 2 months ago, Google Web Accelerator started giving out free download since the beginning of May 2005, somehow stopped accepting new users in less than a month time. Now after almost 4 months, Google once again starts accepting new users. You better be quick, otherwise who knows they will shut down the download link again soon.

Just in case you do not know what actually is Google Web Accelerator, basically it is an application that helps to speed up your broadband connection by sending your connection requests through some speed optimizing processes on Google servers, then send back the requests to you.

Please be noted that, this free service is only designed for broadband users, dial-up connection might not see any speed difference. Besides, it now supports only Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ browsers.
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Google Web Accelerator Re-open For Download