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Back in the 90s, the home page concept was all the rage. Yahoo! built an entire business model around the home page concept and they’re still doing it to this very day. Nevertheless, in this Web 2.0 age, is the home page model dead or has it merely evolved?

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When it comes to web statistics, I’ve always been an advocate of the “Only server logs are trustworthy” principle. I still stand firm on this opinion. Recently, I installed Google Analytics here and on ServerBuzz.com. I realized that my life as a webmaster would have been much better if I had installed Google Analytics on my web sites much, much earlier.

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If you’ve been reading on SEO and related topics, you will undeniably be familiar with the term PageRank, or it’s acronym PR.

PageRank is Google’s numerical ranking of web pages. It ranges from 0 to 10. Essentially, the more a page is linked, the higher its PR will be. PR has gone through a number of revisions, but essentially, the concept remains similar to its link popularity roots. You can get an explanation of the PR algorithm here.

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I know some people who had used up all their Gmail quota; two that I can recall right now are Lainie and Kay. If you’re just like them, this might be good news for you: you can now increase your Gmail or Picasa storage space up to 250GB!

Of course, if you’re hoping this would be free of charge; you’re living in dreamland my friends. Plans start at $20/year for 6GB. Find out more from the Official Google Blog.

A Chinese company is suing Google Inc. because the search giant’s Chinese name is too similar to it’s own. Their demand is pretty simple actually; Google should change its Chinese name to something else… anything but the Guge it’s using now:

A spokesman for Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. Co. said Google’s commercial name had led to the company being constantly disturbed by people calling up its office trying to contact the search engine.

“We just want Google to change their commercial name,” Tian Yunshan, a company official, told Reuters on Friday. “We have already passed our demands on to Google … We will see what happens in court.”