Gmail: The Free Replacement for Paid Email Hosting

So you purchased a domain name for your website, and you want a custom email address under that domain. But the registrar requires you to pay for the email hosting monthly. Though they are usually cheap, paying for email hosting monthly when you can use that custom email address for free would be impractical, especially if you are a small business site owner or the like. Forwarding email addresses won't look good either, as when you reply, the Sent From would show the email address the email has been forwarded to.  Solution? Simple. Use Gmail.

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FileDen: Marked by Google as a Malware-Distributing Site

Yesterday, while checking my blog, a malware warning appeared on my browser. It says that the site I'm visiting contains contents from FileDen, a site that is known to distribute malware. I was shocked, then I posted it to Twitter. Someone responded that they are getting the malware warning, too. However, the only files I uploaded on FileDen are photos on my old blog posts. So, I assure you that L-I is 100% safe to browse. Read more to see the details.

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Google's New Search Algorithm: Goodbye to Irrelevant Results

Last week, Google announced that it has launched a change in its search algorithm. Their main goal is to return more relevant and more high-quality results. These past few months, Google's reliability has been questioned and doubted as more and more techniques to get into the top ranks are manipulating the results, thus resulting to low quality search results. However, they stated that the change in their algorithm impacts 11.8% of the queries. They said that this will prevent low-quality sites from getting into the top. 

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