Evidently the thin streets of some European cities caused some trouble for a car mounted with the Google Street View rig, so those ingenious guys at Google came up with the human-powered tricycle above. This idea is great, but what I love even more is the face on the rider that says “I really expected [...]
I was listening to an NPR story on credit the other day and was struck by the similarity between credit score and search rank. Here’ s an edited transcript of one section of the story:
Texas-based flight attendant Lilli Durbin used to have six credit cards, which is fairly typical for this country. She couldn’t pay [...]
I’ve fallen a bit off the blogging wagon in the last few weeks because of travel for work, a new agency of record agreement and a lot of deliverables, not to mention trying to spend some family time. As a result there is a bunch of news that I’ve thought about over the last few [...]
Enjoy the following links to data for online activity in 2007.
comScore 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review
Surprise surprise, Facebook was the fastest gaining social media site, politics had the biggest gain as a category and Google had the greatest number of searches.
Google Zeitgeist
What were we searching for on Google last year? One word; iPhones. [...]
Either OneStat had their data wrong in November, Google is way ahead of other search engines in terms of the number of words in their average query or folks got a lot savvier about search queries very quickly because beu blog got a look at a Google presentation claiming that the average search query is [...]
Two bits of news about Del.icio.us from TechCruch in the last few days. First is that Del.icio.us results are being tested on Yahoo! SERPs. To which I’ve got to wonder what took so long. And the second is that Del.icio.us 2.0 may be launching this week. At least one team is doing ok [...]
Dang!
I’m bowled over by this little Christmas present from Google. Google Talk now includes automatic translation into 23 languages. Sending a message to [from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com will return translation or perform automatic translation if included in a group chat.
Maybe it’s just the spirit of the times and hoping for peace on earth, but [...]
Google alerts are a handy way of keeping tabs on what’s going on and being said online for people, companies, brands and ideas that you are interested in. Through Google Alerts you can have emails sent to any email address that you would like whenever a specific keyword phrase is found in new results [...]
I don’t know if the news last week that Google was spammed my malware sites is scary, impressive or a vision of the future. What seemed to have happened is that sites with malware, destructive software that is usually uploaded to visitor’s computers without their permission, rose to the top of Google and other [...]
Google launched a Mobile Updater for BlackBerry yesterday. You should be able to download it at mobile.google.com, but it wasn’t there yesterday; you had to do some digging to http://www.google.com/m/download/pack/apps/v2.14/en/BlackBerry-42/pack-0.jad in order to download the thing. It’s worth the digging.
The new pack includes 7 applications; Google Mobile Updater, Search, Google Maps, Gmail, News, [...]
