Luyi Chen’s blog

I just found a new feature in Google Notebook, that you can find deleted notes in trash. When you delete something, it will show a line of highlighted text inform you the trash folder. The style is quite gmail way. Stuffs in trash folder will be purged in 30 days. As long as the speed is acceptable, I am now using this as my main notebook.

Beta news:

Google’s new brand name in China will be “Gu Ge,” Chinese for “valley song.” The company said it picked the name to allude to a rewarding experience, adding that it draws on Chinese tradition.

According to this page, Gmail chat only works under http currently, although it will support https going forward. That’s why I never saw this feature tuned on in my account.

update: It’s available over https now.

This article on Google’s newsletter for librarians gives a well explanation on how google collects and ranks articles. You may think that you know PageRank well. But I promise you will find something new in this article. The best part I like is this exercise, for more details you should refer to the article:

Now tape those documents on a wall, step back a few feet, and squint your eyes. If you didn’t know what the rest of a page said, and could only judge by the colored words, which document do you think would be most relevant? Is there anything that would make a document look more relevant to you?

This shows you how important a good title is. Take a look at your page source. What’s in your title and h1 element. Are they relevent to your article?

Most websites put a static site name in the title of every page. Just think about how many times, you should modify the description area when you tag a page to online bookmarks. This shortage in page design not only annoys taggers, but also shows less importance to Google.

So I have something to do with my site now. Hehe!

Now you can search in Google Scholar and get direct access to some online resources in National Library of China. Here is how to do:

1. Go to Google Scholar, select search preference
2. In the section for add library, you search for China
3. And there is only one result, which is National Library of China.

You are done. I did some try, but cannot trigger result from NL of China. Maybe the resources they provide is not within my field.