Posts Tagged Google
Google Apps – Annoyances
I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps.
However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail.
Join an email list (I’m on linux-users@linux-sxs.org) with your Google hosted email domain.
Send an email to the list.
The traditional behaviour should be that you receive the email you posted back in your inbox and any list replies to your post are under that first email.
Not with Google Apps Mail.
Someone(the same genious’s that developed the loopy tag/All Mail paradigm I’d suggest) has decided that you would never want to be able to receive an email from yourself that originated from an email list. It seems to scrub your returning post.
So if no one replies you can’t see if you have posted or not.
What a crock.
Google Ranking Anxiety
Ever since I posted this regarding typing my name into Google and being on the first page of listings I have noticed that I’ve now become obsessed with staying on the Google search results front page. This is silly because
a. The Telarah Times is not for commercial purposes… yet and
b. There is really no good reason why I would want my website on the first page of a Google search for my name.
Be that as it may. I am finding myself checking to see if I’m on the first page and worrying that I’m slipping.
I’ve somehow managed to get myself on the subscription list to an Australian SEO Industry magazine “Nett” which has the tag line “Take Your Business Further Online”. Besides providing copious page real estate for everyone to spruik their wares, according to them, being up there in the Google results is critical for online business success.
So my name is on the front page of Google’s search results (currently and for however briefly and accidentally). Now if only I could think of something to sell… but sadly I think the entrepreneurial gene is missing from the biological cocktail that makes me. No wait – does anyone want to buy a used dial indicator?
Until next time. cu l8tr