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Amazon.com Greasemonkey Script

Most people writing about books in the Web are linking to amazon.com nowadays. I like it because the reviews there give you some clue about the book and if it is worth buying it. The only problem is that I normally order my books on the German amazon website. To add an book to my [...]

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Location != Language

As web applications get used international the need to translate them into several languages gets bigger and bigger. Google describes in on of their last blog entries how proud they are to support 170+ Laguages for some of their applications. They even try to include the community to do translation on their own. Everyone understands [...]

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Google Reader Feeds

On one of my last post i was writing about Meta RSS Feeds and that it would be nice if Google Reader would support a possibility to get feeds for special tags. I just step over a post by Niall Kennedy (already posted in December 2005) that describes how you can use the API of [...]

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Google Search Results

Lately i noticed some changes in the search results of google. More and more rss news feeds are returned as top results as you can see in the screenshot below. This is really a big problem becaus if you click on it immediately your configured RSS reader opens (in my case this is the Google [...]

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