Thu Tu’s Blog

When I first learned of Linked Custom Search Engines from Google Co-op, I didn’t really get it. When I got the explanation, I then saw the potential.
Previously, to create a custom search engine, we needed to go into a control panel to give Google a list of sites we want it to show results from. [...]

Finally… Google offers the ability to do group chat by way of the Google Talk Gadget. It’s not available with the client version of Google Talk, though.
To use it, start a conversation with a contact, click on Group Chat and select additional contacts.
To have concurrent group chats, even involving the same individuals, repeat the above [...]

I was checking out the control panel for my blog’s Google Custom Search Engine and saw something under the Code tab that I hadn’t noticed before: Search box and search results code for your website
I was intrigued at the thought of having the search results show up with my blog’s theme. After completing my search [...]

I have an account that I use for my Google services like Gmail, iGoogle, etc. However, I want to use a different account for Google Groups. Since the sign-ins propagate to different services, I would get logged into the wrong account in the wrong service. Here’s how I’ve figured out to be able to log [...]

Back in March, I chose Seasonal Scape for the theme on my Google Personalized Homepage. All spring, I wondered when Google would update the scenery so that it would show a spring theme instead of a winter scene with a snowman. Since it is almost summer, and I was still seeing a snowman, I went [...]

Sweet! My blog ranks #2 for my first name, Thu, in Google. And it only took 9 years. Hopefully I don’t jinx myself by writing about this. BTW, my name is pronounced like ‘two’ so that’s why it’s punny that it is #2.
I’ve been using Google since 1998, when it was a student project [...]

As organization administrator for Coppermine’s participation in Google’s Summer of Code, I have asked the four students working with our team to provide weekly updates on their progress. After two weeks, things are looking good. I am impressed with the students. As a dev team member and user, I am also excited at the potential [...]