Posted in Google on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Since I’m considering changing this blog’s name to ChurchMojo.com, I created a Google alert for “church mojo” to monitor the activity on that phrase (and registered the domain). As a Gmail user, it surprised me to see that Google had flagged one of its own Google Alerts as spam.
Adding “googlealerts-noreply@google.com” to your Gmail Contacts will [...]
Posted in Google on June 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hallelujah, all my church’s keywords have moved to the top of Google! Oh wait, those were Google personalized results. Now I have to log out of Google, try that query again and see if the results change. Heavy sigh.Here are three ways to quickly turn off Google personalization so that you can see the default [...]
Posted in Google on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you don’t have a Google account yet, read Anna Belle’s reasons why church webmasters need to sign up. When you’re ready to get one for your web team, just don’t make the mistake of registering the account using your personal email address. Instead, use churchdomain@gmail.com (my preferred format, although it doesn’t have to be [...]
Posted in Google on May 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Danny Sullivan of SearchEnglineLand pointed out an anatomically amusing Google CAPTCHA –those strangely formatted words that you have to type in to prove you’re a human and not an automated program. Here’s a scatalogical one to add to that list of adolescent humor:
Yes, while trying to use Google Groups, I was asked to type “poopper” [...]
