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Hi! My Name is Rick...

I am a jack of all trades who doesn't know when to quit and has no time to worry about risks. I do what I feel needs to be done and live life with no regrets. I enjoy reading, writing, MMA, keeping reptiles, traveling, self improvement and technology. If I had to describe myself I would say I am a man of many facets..

THIS IS MY BLOG...

This is where I put all my incoherent ramblings for the world to read. This little site filled with random thoughts, opinions and facts is an extention of myself. If you are worth the air you breathe you will read every last post, comment often and check back daily to see if I have added any more content.

Google Powers Us All

Posted on 17 May 2007
Tags: WWW

As my day perusing the WWW begins I find myself thinking about what I do most and what enables me to do it. The conclusion of such thought is that I mainly use Email and Search. For E-mail I use an IMAP account on one of my domains. For search, I use the giant monstrosity known as Google.

Personally I love many of the products that exist in the Google arsenal. Google is such a big part of the online experience. Millions of Internet users search using their #1 product, the Google Search Engine, use Adsense to earn income from their blogs and websites, receive email using Gmail and enjoy all the other products Google has brought to us over the years. Some of us whom are more interested in technology and time saving techniques have read books to help us use Google products more efficiently such as Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World’s Information as well as Google Advertising Tools: Cashing in with AdSense, AdWords, and the Google APIs.

Some Google product users however, have for one reason or another not read the many publications focusing on Google products. For these people I am posting here a few decent links to some helpful tools to streamline the Google experience. Though nowhere near a full list these are the ones I personally use. It is possible I will update this page or add new blog entries as I find new things or think of information to add,

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ possibly the most important link, this page allows you to see and use all of Google’s features.

Googlebar Lite: A light-weight Google search toolbar for the Firefox browser.

GooglePreview An an add-on for Firefox which inserts preview images of web sites and Amazon products into Google and Yahoo search results.

Gooscan is a Linux based tool that automates queries against Google search appliances, but with a twist. These particular queries are designed to find potential vulnerabilities on web pages. Think “cgi scanner” that never communicates directly with the target web server, since all queries are sent to Google, not to the target.