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Why Isn’t Google Maps Integrated with Google Calendar

November 29, 2007

Hey Matt I can’t be the first person who ever wanted a link on Google maps straight to a Google calendar, how come you don’t offer that? I look up the location, add my starting address (which Google never seems to remember despite me telling it multiple times it’s my default address) you have be [...]

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Making Google Reader More Social

November 29, 2007

I know Google’s been trying to get more involved in the social game, but here are a few suggestions on how they can make the integration a little more seamless, and I’m totally name dropping Mihai Parparita so he catches this one ego surfing.

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Why is Everyone Connected With Google So Creepy

November 17, 2007

Anne Wojcicki wife of Sergey Brin who is in charge of 23andMe.com (sorry no link love for you) is set to bring the company live this week. Here are the details via techcrunch:

23andMe will offer a genetic screening service for $999. The short story is that 23andMe will administer a test (presumably a swab or [...]

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Google Reader Indexes Really Fast

November 14, 2007

I’m not sure if it’s some synergy between google reader and feedburner but damn google reader is picking up new posts in like 10 minutes, that totally rocks! I still get the dupe thing occasionally, but latency was one of my primary concerns when I switched, and now it’s a total non issue.

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Is Matt Cutts Pulling the “I Did You a Favor” Card

November 14, 2007

C’mon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or don’t do them at all, I don’t think you want to get into the Google’s did you a favor, now stop bad mouthing us card at all. Bringing up stuff like this just makes people question your motivation …

Why get [...]

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Site Links and Search Volume

November 12, 2007

One of the things that I admire about the Google algo is it’s ability to “learn” and “adapt” based on incoming data. For example when search volume for a certain keywords reaches a certain volume words that were originally mis-spellings become real words. Today I came across an example of this logic being applied to [...]

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Bug in Google Desktop Forces You to Give Data to the Borg

November 11, 2007

So last week I twittered I noticed something odd that made it look like Google had opted everybody into personalized search and web history since I was #1 for [michael]. Danny Sullivan twittered back that that wasn’t the case, so I went to my Google account turned it on and then turned it off again, [...]

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Site Links are Ephemeral

November 5, 2007

When I see things like this I have to admit I’m fascinated about the inner workings of the Google Borg

Anybody think they aren’t using user/toolbar data? Want to do a nice experiment repeat this search every 15 days and watch for changes …

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Google Open Social I’m Disappointed I Think

November 2, 2007

So am I the only one confused/let down/disappointed by Google open social? I mean like I actually thought Google/it was going to do something other than being a bunch of incoherent technical gobbeldy gook? Umm Google I know I’ve said this before but when you guys release something, it really needs to be written in [...]

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Chinks in the Google Armor

October 25, 2007

Google’s grip on the hearts and minds the internet population is starting fade and people are starting to wize up, read Technosailor on Google Can Kiss My Derrière.
I’d love to be able publish a dirty little secret I found out about the paid links FUD campaign … cause it is good …

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Google Adwords More Pricing BS

October 25, 2007

Holy Cow Adwords you really have gone off the deep end with this one check it out

Today, we’d like to revisit a common misconception, about which we receive quite a few questions. In the first part of the post, we will very briefly cover the most important facts and in the second we’ll take a [...]

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Clever Video Adsense Integration

October 23, 2007

Some of my colleagues have seen a few of my more cleverly integrated adsense ads, however I just watched an adsense video ad and didn’t realize until after it was over it was an ad. Hannity Disses Ron Paul (skip the content if it’s not your thing) the lower video unit is an adsense unit [...]

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Google Reader Throwing Errors

October 10, 2007

Anybody else having a problem with Google Reader throwing errors? I’ve been getting this for the past 2 days and I’ve tried a dozen times, rebooted, restarted, and all that jazz.

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Why Google is the Recording Industry of the 21st Century

October 10, 2007

If you’ve been following any of the news in the music and recording industry you know that Radiohead announced they will be releasing their music for free, eliminating the recording industry middle man. Nine Inch Nails followed suit a few days later, followed by Oasis and Jamiroquai. The music wants to be free from monopolistic [...]

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More Paid Links Double Talk

October 3, 2007

Hey Matt if you said this:

Users don’t want to see results sorted by who has the biggest pocketbook.

Then why does adwords have premium placement above organic SERP’s?
full forbes article

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Google Phone

October 1, 2007

This borders on the painfully obvious but I’ll say it anyway. Google if you are planning ever releasing the gPhone you could really increase the adoption rate if you give it the ability to natively sync with gMail and Google Calendars (no third party hacks/apps). Of course if you really wanted to take a bite [...]

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An Abundance of Dyslexic Ads in Gmail

September 28, 2007

Not sure which is more entertaining the dyslexic nature of the ads (coffee, moms and Stargate) or the huge list of ads at the end … holy crap what a great user experience …

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Whatif Google were Evil

September 17, 2007

Go read What if Google were Evil now!!!
No really go read it the whole thing, really it’s worth it.

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Suggestions for Google Sitemaps

September 14, 2007

Hey Google sitemaps how about we clean up this menu to make it a little easier to understand

How about “pages with external links” and “pages with internal links”. You know this way the phrase is similar with just the condition changing. I can figure it out, but it eliminates one of those “don’t make me [...]

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Google SERP for Wiki Jacking

September 13, 2007

Boy it sure is a good thing we have wikipedia around so Google can use it to provide relevant results like these, I mean it’s not like the wiki is given and algorithmic advantage and ranks for phrases it has no right ranking for or anything.
Although it is interesting taking note of the stemming of [...]

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