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How to put WoW Insider on your Google Reader

Posted Mar 28th 2008 9:00AM by Adam Holisky
Filed under: How-tos, Odds and ends

In an ongoing series of articles we'll show you how to put WoW Insider on your own blog, guild website, personal website, or even on your computer's desktop. For a complete list of the software that's covered, check out our guide's index.

About Google Reader

Google has developed an online tool that coalesces all your RSS feeds into one source. It's a very handy tool, and is one of the windows that I always have open. For me, it helps me stay abreast of everything happening in the world in one easy spot. One of the best things about Google Reader is that you can search through news with ease, and you can search through lots of news in just seconds.

How to add WoW Insider to your Google Reader



1. Logon to Google Reader.
2. As you can see from the above screenshot, I already have WoW Insider in my reader's list. However, you probably don't. What you want to do is click the green "Add subscription" link.



3. This will open up a window as shown above. Type in "wowinsider.com" and click the "Add" button.



4. WoW Insider is now added to your Google Reader! You can see it on the list of subscribed sites to your left.

WoW addons dominate Google Trends

Posted Mar 25th 2008 10:30PM by Alex Ziebart
Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Ranking, Blizzard, AddOns

There's no denying that patch 2.4 has been one hot topic today. Not just here on WoW Insider, either. I'd say it's safe to assume Google is a pretty good indicator of what's what on the internet, and Google Trends reveals all.

Patch 2.4 and many other WoW-related things dominated March 25th as the most popular Google searches. As of 8 PM CST, out of the top ten searches, only two were unrelated to the World of Warcraft. As you can see above, the Omen Threat Meter ranked number one. Not particularly surprising, since it is one of the most used WoW addons around. If WoW is going to dominate the charts, it should be no shock Omen took the lead, especially on a patch day.

As the night goes on, things are tapering off a little bit, but the numbers were still very impressive for most of the day. A screencap of what Omen's search traffic throughout the day looked like is just behind the cut, and you can see pretty clearly when people discovered the patch was coming.

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Grisoft marks WoW as a false positive

Posted Jul 13th 2007 5:30PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Patches, Odds and ends, Blizzard


If you run Grisoft's AVG antivirus program, you may have seen a strange message pop up yesterday-- the program reported that there was a trojan in WoW's fmod.dll file. fmod.dll, as Datth tell us, is part of the sound engine for WoW, and is not a virus at all. But it appears that AVG picked it up as a false positive, and labeled it as dangerous when it wasn't.

There was some confusion yesterday about it, but as of right now, the fix is easy-- go to AVG's website and update it to the latest version. The most recent definitions rule WoW's directory A-OK, so everything should be fine. Apparently this is not the only false positive problem AVG has had this week-- Google Desktop was also ruled a virus, so either AVG is being too strict, or these two big software companies are getting a little too grabby for Grisoft's tastes.

[ via WoWLJ ]

What we google on patch day

Posted May 22nd 2007 11:08PM by Amanda Rivera
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves

Althras on the Suramar (US) realm tipped us to the power that WoW players have over the internet as a whole. It appears that we are affecting the Google Trends data, particularly while the servers have been down. Of the top ten most researched terms on the search engine, WoW related items occupy four slots.

Most of us seem interested in mods, since four of the six search terms are related to CT Mods, Titan Panel, etc. Other examples in our search engine monopoly refer to the Netherwing, Skettis and the additional content entering the game in Patch 2.1.0.

As Althras puts it, being 8 million strong, with about half of the players being English speaking (give or take) can make a huge impact on the internet when focused on one specific purpose. As we spend our time waiting for the realms to come back up, we also show the internet powers that be that World of Warcraft players are affecting the virtual world around us.

[via Althras]

Breakfast Topic: Have your say about our ads

Posted Apr 7th 2006 7:00AM by Jennie Lees
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Insider Business, Breakfast topics

We've had a few discussions here about gold farming, and we're well aware that thanks to some of the keywords on this site, the Google AdSense ads displayed here can be incongruous with the message we are trying to get across. While we've had to leave the adverts as-is so far, we want your feedback on this issue, and we're prepared to act -- how important is the content of our advertisements to you?

Technologically speaking, we can block certain ads based on their URLs, but as more sites spread and more domains spring up, this isn't going to help too much. Of course, we know that most of you aren't going to buy gold, so if you do click on the adverts you're costing the gold sellers money -- doing this, and making advertising expensive for them, could be one way to combat the problem.

What would you do in our position?

Mainstream WoW References

Posted Dec 22nd 2005 2:00PM by Damien Barrett
Filed under: Odds and ends

World of Warcraft was recently listed as one of the top gainers in Google's 2005 year-end zeitgeist, which means that awareness of the game is increasing, and not just with gamers. The people at Jeopardy have included the game in answers for the show, and the popular comic strip Foxtrot, recently referenced World of Warcraft in a strip.


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