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I have Google Analytics installed on my website since this site is created. As we all know, these Analytics scripts are placed at the bottom of the page just before the </body> tag. A few days ago, I tried putting some Adbrite ads in different places here on my site. I also placed an ad at the bottom just before the analytics script.

The next day, I noticed that my Analytics report dropped to 0 or 1 visitor. I thought it was normal, maybe I really didn’t have visitors that day. But when I tried to check my cpanel’s aswtats and my Adbrite stats, it indicated that I did have visitors that day. I double checked the code to see if I accidentally deleted some lines but everything’s ok. I assumed maybe it has something to do with the Adbrite ads I placed.

What I did to make Google Analytics work again

I Google searched for a solution about this matter but unfortunately did’t find any solution. So I tried fixing it on my own. It thought maybe somehow, the Adbrite  script is causing a conflict with the Analytics script. So what I did is I simply switched the positions of the two scripts. I placed the Analytics script before the Adbrite script at the bottom and it worked.

I still don’t know why this worked considering that I still have Adbrite ad scripts at the top of the page and which are still above the Analytics script. Anyway you can check  this page’s source code and go to the bottom see what I did.

Hey, did you know you can use Google to search for Mp3 files instead of using P2P file sharing applications? You can directly download mp3 files directly from website’s directories using your browser. It’s easy.

Let’s say you want to download an MP3 file entitled Canon by Pachelbel for example. Just go to Google and search for

"intitle:index of" pachelbel canon mp3

like the one shown below. Make sure you enclose “intitle:index of” in quotation marks and specify the keyword “mp3″. (Yeah you can use this trick to search for other file types too!)

Now let’s click the first result for example. You will get a page like the one shown below.

Now all you have to do is to right-click the file you’ve choosen and select Save Link As… in Firefox or Save Target As… if you’re still using Internet Explorer and your browser will automatically download the file. That’s it!

Explanation why you are able to browse through website directories

The results that Google displays are directories or folders from different websites. The reason why you are able to browse a website’s directory is because the website developer did not put an index file (i.e. index.php, index.htm, etc…) in the directory. Directories without an index file shows “Index of” on the page’s title. In addition, web developers should tell the search engines NOT to crawl (search) those folders.

Hey guys, check out google’s new browser. Its pretty neat and it has a lot of cool features. Its open source like FireFox with a lot of different features. It had a security flaw on its initial release but it had been fixed. Here are some of its cool features:

• One box for everything. It only uses one text box for typing the address and for searching.
• Crash Control. Every tab you’re using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down
• Dynamic Tabs. You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.
• And more. Check out google Chrome’s feature page here.

You can download Google Chrome here.