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Well well well, it’s been so long; almost 3 months that I’ve not posted anything in this blog. Was I busy? What happened that I suddenly stopped writing in one of my most updated blogs? The reason is Google again. Now what did Google do this time, you might be wondering? I should probably have posted this long time ago but I wanted to wait for sometime and then later I was so busy with my other blogs that I totally forgot that I have a blog named 547thcrusaders.com too.

Anyways coming to the reason why couldn’t better to say why I didn’t updated my blog is because Google probably banned my blog. The posts in my blog used to get cached in an hour and it used to have more than 18,000 indexed pages but few months ago when I checked the web cache in Google, it was gone and there were no indexed pages; not even a single page. I was shocked. I thought there was some error probably and it would be fixed but it didn’t. I asked for reconsideration like more than 2 months ago and haven’t yet heard from them. I don’t know whats wrong with Google. Treating us like nothing. Any why? Coz it’s big? Coz it’s an internet giant? I really have enough of all this and I deny to be treated like an insect. But when I think what can I do? I really am an insect in the world of internet compare to Google and it can do whatever it wants. If my site was very popular like facebook or yahoo or twitter then probably the absense of my blog in Google won’t matter me much but it isn’t and it really hurts my revenue as most of my traffic used to come from search in Google.

I don’t really know what to write right now. It’s all mixed emotions that’s flowing in my mind. God what should I do with this site? Should I keep writing or is this the end?

written by rajit197 \\ tags: Blog Banned, google, Webmaster Tool

Yesterday, I was checking out the threads in V7N’s forums and there I saw a thread titled “Facebook is Google’s greatest threat?” I thought for a minute and then I gave it a thought again and thought – What rubbish? What a fool to think like that? How in the world can you compare a Social Networking Site with the king of internet Google? Makes no sense at all.

I know Facebook’s driving a load shit of traffic lately and many advertisers and marketers are shifting to Facebook but its traffic is in no way comparable to what Google gets in a day. Marks making a load of cash too but “Can he retain it for long?” is still a question. Microsoft is spending a lot on it (Gates bought the 1.6 percent of Facebook’s stake for whooping $US240 million) but that’s merely just useless try to get Google down from the throne. Google might start a social networking site itself, who knows, it might buy out Facebook too.

written by rajit \\ tags: Facebook, google, Google’s Greatest Threat

Google Apps is a service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google products. It features several web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites. - Wiki

I had heard never signed into Google Apps before few days ago when a friend of mine whose domain - BizPersonnel.com I had hosted, asked me if I knew about this service Google was providing using which one can host his email accounts in Google rather than in their own hosting. Well, at that time I thought he was talking about forwarding the mails to his Gmail account but when he showed me his office email account hosted in Google with Gmail like interface, I thought it was something else and that’s when I thought I have a new topic to research and write about. Hosting your domain email on Google server was one of the services from Google Apps.

So, I signed up for a Free Trial Account of Google Apps which offered the same amount of storage as regular Gmail account which was enough for me (The premier cost 50 USD/yr and offered 25 GB of e-mail storage). I signed in as an IT administrator of the domain so that I can have the full access of the services it was providing. I had to verify if the domain really was mine which was no big deal at all. Then it says it will take about 48 hrs to verify (mine took much less though). After the verification, just log on to the domain thru Google App site, go to email and you’ll have access to your domain’s email in Gmail interface which is hosted in Google’s server not yours. Plus the advanced features of normal Gmail services, such as searching, spam filtering in additions to user interface that similar to normal Gmail view.

I heard Microsoft is also offering a similar service to the Gmail for your domain as part of its Windows Live initiative were Microsoft Windows Live Custom Domains offers to host a user’s domain and the email will be available via MSN Hotmail interface. I haven’t tried that though myself but if I try that I’ll do post on it too.

written by rajit \\ tags: Email Hosting, google, Google Apps, Host Email In Google

 It’s a tragedy that the Page Rank of this blog 3 now. It was PR5 earlier with many PR2 and PR1 inner links last update brought disaster for me. Well, many people said that it was because of the blogposts and links that I was selling on my blog. It could have been, I don’t know. I hadn’t read Google’s Webmaster Guidelines at that time but since then I’ve been trying to reach Google and ask the real reason. I can’t believe in whatever anyone says, frankly I don’t care because I’ve been in this for a long time now and I have seen and witnessed things that are shocking. Few weeks ago, I had this guy that was selling a 2 day old domain which was PR6 (how could it have gotten PR 6 in 2 days)…now what do you all have to say about that. Also, another case is of a friend of mine whose blog had no content or backlinks but still updated to PR6. My blog at least have content on some niche and is updated regularly until I got hit by Google PR update last time. There are millions of such examples that I can give which say that Google Page Rank system is useless but still many including me are after it.

Ok, where was I? Sorry I got lost. So, I was trying to reach out Google when in some blog I read that Google can be contacted for this issue thru the “Request reconsideration” in your Google Webmaster Tools. Many people had been reported to have requested for the reconsideration, asking for the excuse this time and that they will never do selling of any kind in their blogs from now on and Google was kind enough to give them their PR back. This was what they were saying. So, I did the same. I have requested twice I think for the reconsideration about 3 months ago. I was waiting with patience for such a long time because I think Google might have millions of such case and mine must be in a queue but 3 months is a pretty long time and Google hasn’t even sent me anything. At least I was expecting something like “Sorry!!! Your reconsideration was rejected because you’re still selling links and blogposts or something like that” but there was no such reply from Google. So, now I’m having second thoughts about the Request reconsideration link or even the other links because I can easily report millions of paid links and expect Google to cease their Page Ranks, can’t I but even that might take years to process.

written by rajit \\ tags: google, Google Webmaster Tool, Page Rank, PR System, PR Update, Reconsideration

Technology is one field that updates nearly constantly. If you aren’t paying attention, a whole new generation of electronic gadgets will spring up in no time. There are lots of websites chronicling the frantic expansion of technology, so it pays to stay up on the latest technology news. Most people get most of their news online, so it’s natural they’ll look to RSS feeds for much of their information.

As technology expands, so does the internet. The internet is entering a more mature phase where entire industries have moved the bulk of their efforts online. Newspapers and related media are already finding that their customers search for them online. Plus, more and more consumers are becoming comfortable with making electronic purchases. The future for online newspapers looks bright thanks to the increase of cheap technology which has made the information revolution possible.

The role of search engines has risen dramatically in recent years as many of us have learned how to “Google” our answers. If you’re looking for the freshest and best technology news, you have to look online, because that’s where the best sources are.

written by rajit \\ tags: google, Internet, RSS, Technology News

It might be late for me to say this but Google’s Chrome has officially been released. It’s been like a week I guess. So, I’m not the first guy to say this huh?? So what?? I-D-C means I don’t give a fu**ing care.

I don’t what Google is trying to prove but it’s creating hell of a problem for Microsoft. Already Firefox, Opera and Safari are giving enough of headaches to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and now Chrome has been added to the list.

It has been said that Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Designed to be lightweight, fast and optimized for the next generation applications that goes heavy with multimedia and graphics Google Chrome is gonna give a tough competition to other browsers.

I have downloaded and tried it. I still feel some awkwardness with the design and new interface of Chrome but that’s probably because I’ve been using Firefox for a long time.

You can Download Chrome Here. Best of luck Chrome!!!

written by rajit \\ tags: Browser, Chrome, google, Google Chrome

“Google is the leader and we have to follow the leader.” I know for some this may seem rubbish and some may even think that I’ve gone mad just ‘coz my Google PR dropped :(. But it’s a fact. A bitter fact but let’s face it, if Google doesn’t like us we can’t survive the heat of internet.

The great John Chow who makes thousands of dollars….I’ve read many of his posts and he strictly disagrees that we have to depend on Google if we want to survive in internet. According to him, it’s all about the traffic. But he’s saying all this just because he has established himself as a pro blogger and people know him/his site and they don’t need to search him in the search engine. He’s already making huge 10s of thousands of $$. But how did he get famous in the beginning. How did he get traffic as a starter? I don’t think he’d be making this amount of money if it weren’t for his PR which was 6 months back. I mean now he just has PR4 but it was when he’d PR6 that his traffic grew and he become mister popular as a blogger.

Ok let’s just cut it out. Let’s not talk about JohnChow.com….my pr dropped too and I’ve been banging my head since then. It was PR5 and few weeks back the PR dropped to 3 which was a huuuuuggggggeeee disappointment for me. As you must have noticed that the domain name of my site is very difficult (547thcrusaders.com). Actually, I’d bought this site in dp and I’ve spent over a year maintaining it. When it was bought it already had PR5… how I don’t know… it only had one pr5 backlink. But after I bought I spend night and day looking for the perfect template and getting the right content for my readers. Yes, I did quite a few paid blogposts but that was just so that I can feed my family. I never did anything that didn’t belong to my niche. But still I Google penalized my site and the result as you can see… my PR is 3 now. I don’t get enough traffic now like before and I don’t get paid now like before.

I don’t know what to do. All I could think of and most of my pals told me were to request Google for reconsideration and that’s what I did. I read the Webmaster Guidelines thoroughly and modified most of the paid links who I don’t think are important to ‘nofollw’ so that the PR juice don’t get passed to them and submitted the reconsideration form to Google. Now, I’m crossing my fingers and waiting for the reply from Google. But please don’t think I’ve gone mad. I’m not…really… huhaaaa… ahem ahem .. oops !!!

written by rajit \\ tags: google, Internet Leader, Page Rank, PR Update, Traffic

It is official now…Yahoo has rejected Microsoft’s offer. Alas a sigh of relief for Google.The reason – Yahoo finds it too low. As I’ve already mentioned in my previous post, Yahoo was offered $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares by the software giant Microsoft to compete with Google. The offer was actually 62% above the level at which Yahoo stocks were trading when it was made on 1 February. But somehow Yahoo’s shares closed on Friday at $29.20. So, it was very much sure that the offer was going to be rejected.

Yahoo said the offer “substantially undervalues” the company and is not in shareholders’ interests.

A source quoted by the Wall Street Journal said that Yahoo’s board would be unlikely to consider anything below $40 per share which would be a 109% premium to the $19.18 closing price of Yahoo’s shares the day before the original offer was announced.

Also the thing to keep in mind is that Yahoo’s shares have not traded above $40 for two years.

Let’s see what Microsoft’s next move is going to be.

written by rajit \\ tags: google, Internet, internet war, Yahoo rejects Microsoft offer