Scattered Thoughts » search http://www.kunaal84.com/blog where you go when not looking for the answer to life, the universe and everything Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:07:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 SEOmoz – The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2008/05/07/seomoz-the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet/ http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2008/05/07/seomoz-the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:41 +0000 Kunaal Ramchandani http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/?p=44 SEOmoz, is a blog I have started reading recently to get my regular fix of what is happening in the SEO world. If you haven’t heard of them, I suggest you check them out as they write some really great articles with a lot of useful information. (SEOmoz, I’ll email you the details on where to send the cheque :) )

If you’re a web developer, you should really check out their Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet, which has some really great info on things developers should keep in mind when creating web sites.
The sheet covers various areas including

  • Important SEO HTML Tags
  • Search Engine Indexing Limits
  • Recommended Title Tag Syntax
  • Common Canonical Homepage Issue
  • 301 Redirect for Apache – Probably one of the most important things to know (at least in my limited experience)
  • Important Search Engine Robots
  • Robots Meta Tag
  • Common Robot Traps – Something to definitely be mindful of
  • Robots.txt Syntax
  • Sitemap Syntax

While there, also checkout

]]> http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2008/05/07/seomoz-the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet/feed/ 1 Its the small things that make the difference http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2007/09/24/its-the-small-things-that-make-the-difference/ http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2007/09/24/its-the-small-things-that-make-the-difference/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:06:09 +0000 Kunaal Ramchandani http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2007/09/24/its-the-small-things-that-make-the-difference/ I have always had family scattered in different corners of the globe, and being as forgetful as I am, I can never remember the time difference. Needless to say that this has resulted in a few cases of “Oh, I’m sorry were you sleeping?”
As a result I always use the humble search engine to find me a site with the correct time. But now, Google has eliminated that extra click by giving me the answer in the search results itself!
Type in “time india” to get the current time displayed in india or “time canada” to get a list of times in a various zones in canada. It is pretty nifty, you can also go as far as typing a major cities name, “time mumbai“!
A couple of other things I noticed:

1. The small clock had a orange dial if the sun has risen in the queried place and a grayish dial if the sun has set.

2. The arms on the clock are pointing at the right time!

Its always the little touches that make the difference.
screen shot - India time

screen shot - Canada time

Here are some other cool things Google search acts as

Calculator: type in an equation and out pops the answer, type “10654 * 8764”

Converter: this is another invaluable tool I always use, conversion be it “miles to km” or “feet to inches”

Currency conversion: Try “3 USD to AUD”

Q&A: Google attempts to answer questions as well, try “height of mount everest” or “population of australia“, this does not work for everything but is pretty good for fact based questions

and one of my favourites, for the cricket fans type in “cricket India” and it will give you the score from the last match played by that team!
screen shot - India Cricket

Here are a few more links which have information on more features in the google search and tips on advanced search.

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