Category Archives: misc

Help Make Blogs More Visible!

There are by some estimates more than 3 million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of … read more

H-Bot, the history bot…

I just found a nice service using the Google WEB API. It is called H-Bot. Here is what Dan Cohen, posted to Google Groups:We’ve just launched a beta version of an application that uses theGoogle API in combination with other … read more

Bye bye Athens Olympics….

The Athens Olympics are over… It was fun for us Greeks, I hope the rest of the world enjoyed them as much as we did (it looks like you did!). I think Athens was proud to have all you athletes, … read more

Ideas for new g-metrics features

I’m working on the new version of g-metrics.com. The backend is being rewritten almost from scratch and the user interface will be much more clean and easy to use. Here are some new features I have in mind to implement:- … read more

Google Web APIs license key limit

As many of you may have noticed, some queries kept returning a result of -1. This was due to the fact that the Google Web APIs license key has a limit of 1,000 queries/day, and any query after that returned … read more

I’m back!

After a 2-weeks break, I’m back. Wow! I didn’t think g-metrics would draw so much attention! Thanks guys! On the other hand, many of you sent me mails regarding problems… Most of them have been myu fault, I’m working on … read more

RSS feeds

I am testing a new feature for g-metrics.com, “custom rss feeds”. After you have logged in, you will notice at the bottom of “my list” page a link for your custom RSS feed. If you try it, please leave a … read more

g-metrics is getting attention!

It looks like more and more people visit g-metrics.com and mention it in their pages! That’s great, I like the feeling that other appreciate my work so far and I feel motivated to make g-metrics.com even better! Some websites mentioning … read more

Data loss

Unfortunately, yesterday (Sat 17 Jul) the data gathering scripts did not run, due to a syntax error… A day’s data lost…

Links of interest (google-related)

Lately I’ve been searching around for interesting google-related pages, and I’ve come up with this list: Google Hacks Google Alert Google API roundup :: hebig.org O’Reilly Network: Google Web API persistent.info: RSS-based PageRank™ Monitoring Tool Poodle Predictor (this is fun..) … read more