Are you surprised to see your blocked urls displaying in Google search results? Why did Google not follow robots.txt directive? Why does this happen?
Matt Cutts explains well in this video why this occurs -

The video clearly shows that Google sometimes lists your blocked urls, but shows no description, meaning that they have not “crawled” those [...]

Its finally here! Now Mac users can download the Google Chrome web browser for Mac computers and test drive the new fast and speedy version of the popular Google browser on Mac OS X.
The main features were as expected – Fast start-up, Fast loading and Fast search. In fact Google introduces it saying that “we’ve [...]

Google has introduced a new product called Google Goggles, a giant leap in visual search, wherein you point a camera at an object and Google figures out what it is!
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Simply take a picture of an object with your camera phone and Google will recognize the [...]

Google has now introduced real time Google search results in association with new partners Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and Twitter. Updates from these sites will be incorporated in real time as they are posted and users can have access to these in the Google search results.

The feature is rolling over across the world [...]

Google has launched an irresistible deal – buy 200 GB Picasa Web Albums storage and Google gifts you a free Eye-Fi Wireless memory card! So while you pay $50 for 200 GB Picasa storage, you get a 95$ free 4GB Eye-Fi card!

So what are Eye-Fi cards? They look just like normal camera memory storage cards, [...]

Now you must buy the Monopoly City board game as the popular online game Monopoly City Streets, where you could buy your own street on Google Maps, is ending on December  9, 2009. The game started with a huge response in September and was reset and restarted after several cheating and server issues continued to [...]

Guest Post by Prasanth Chandra.
Which are the best Mac antivirus programs? Whether it would be cyber life or real life, security is the most alarming issue. One can go to any extent to see him and his family safe and secure. Since computer plays a pivotal role in almost each and every human life, keeping [...]

Time Magazine has released their list of 50 Best Inventions of 2009 and there are some amazing inventions which you might have never seen before.
The Best Invention of the Year is NASA’s Ares Rockets; and they call it the “the best and smartest and coolest thing built in 2009 — a machine that can [...]

Idea cellular, a leading Telecom companies in India is running the Talk for India Hour campaign; where they will donate the revenue earned for all voice calls between 8.36 p.m and 9.36 p.m on November 26 to the police for better protection gear. 
On 26 November last year (26/11), terrorists attacked Mumbai, and the [...]

Have you heard about the Second Best Job in the World? Become an International Shopping Consultant – Fly around the world, stay in prestigious hotels, travelling business class and recording your adventure.​ Sound interesting?
LetsBuyIt.​com, the online price comparison site, is hiring an International Shopping Consultant. The job benefits say you get €5,000 euro monthly [...]

Firefox is now 5 years old and preparations are on to celebrate the Firefox 5th Birthday. Its amazing how a new browser born in 2004, has broken all records and emerged as the most popular browser across the world.

Photo by Christopher
Join the Light the World contest and post a photo or video of your project [...]

Did you know that Microsoft Windows 7 Launch Promo tie-up with Burger King Japan has created the Windows 7 Whopper Burger. Loaded with 7 meaty layers, Burger King is selling out Windows 7 Whopper burgers quickly over the last few weeks.

Visit the Burger King Japan website and eat the huge Windows 7 Whopper… it costs [...]

Have you seen this Google Story video which quickly tracks the Google history over the last 11 years from Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.

Looking for more details on Google History? Read the key milestones in Google’s development [...]

As more celebrities join Twitter everyday, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus decided to quit Twitter, but she did it in style and made a rap song to tell her fans why!

If you hear the Miley Cyrus rap song, some reasons she suggests are she wants her private life private, and wants to put a stop [...]

I use Google Reader for RSS reading daily and today stumbled upon this easter egg called Ninja mode that causes Ninjas to appear in the sidebar and hearts to bloom and break in Google Reader.
Matt Cutts from Google reveals this easter egg in the video below and you can try the secret code and enjoy [...]

Guest Post by David Godot.
All bloggers secretly wish that their readers would just tell them what to write about. But selecting new topics is seldom so easy. Well, what if I told you that Google has devised a system that allows you to tap into your readers’ psyche and magically predict which topics will interest [...]

The Joy of Giving Week is being celebrated from 27th September to 3rd October 2009. The Joy of Giving initiative is a national movement, that aims at engage Indians in different “acts of giving” money, time, resources and skills.
A lot of events are taking place as celebrities, corporates, NGOs and individuals are giving their [...]

Now you can submit websites, advertising campaigns and videos for the 14th Annual Webby Awards, which honor the best in Websites, Interactive Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video and the Mobile Web. This the best time to get early bird pricing and enter your best online work to be judged by the 650-member IADAS [...]

Blog Action Day 2009 is back on October 15, 2009 and the theme is Climate Change this year. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. [...]

How often do you stuff keywords on the META keywords tag on your html pages? Now Google officially says that Googlebot pays no consideration of META keywords tag for your search engine rankings.
This is how typically a meta keywords tag would look like

Matt Cutts, the famous Google engineer clarified the [...]