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Google

Google Site Links UI Looks Funny

June 9, 2007

Not sure what’s causing it but I’ve never seen site links formatting go funny like that

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Google Analytics and Search Engine Spiders

June 9, 2007

Holy Crap how does Google Analytics not track/report search engine spider visits? I mean like duh isn’t that web analytics 102. I mean yes I want to know what the people are doing first, since Googlebot doesn’t have a credit card (yet), but I want to know what the spiders are finding second, because if [...]

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Google Adwords Account Snapshot Page

June 8, 2007

Hey Google Adwords I like the new snapshot page as a concept but it needs a little improvement.

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Google Trends

May 22, 2007

I like the new Google trends feature but does anybody really believe [esoteric] is a “hot search term” for May 22 2007? Like really … a hot 20 search term … c’mon. Hey Google would it really have been that hard to make it RSS so I wouldn’t have to scrape it it …

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Google Onebox with Maps Gone AWOL

May 9, 2007

So I was looking at something last week and I was getting onebox results with a map and three listings for [local town service]. Today I went to someone’s office and show them the onebox and the map with three local results were gone. Tried a bunch of others I know used to work in [...]

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Google Love Affair with Wikipedia

May 2, 2007

Much has been said about Google algorithmic favoritism for Wikipedia. I was working on a project this weekend about celebrities, and wikipedia’s dominance in the SERP’s was nothing less than astounding.

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Google Web History – More Spying From Google

May 1, 2007

I was a little busy last week and didn’t have time to respond to this, but don’t worry the Google Web History isn’t going to pass by without me taking a well deserved swipe at it.

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Forbes Article

April 30, 2007

I’m mentioned in a Forbes article about Google along with Aaron Wall and Jim Boykin

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Is Google Too Powerful

April 30, 2007

Check out a guest piece I wrote over on the Context Web Blog
Google: The Virtual Dictator of the Digital Economy
Google’s dominant share of the search landscape puts it in a unique position. For many consumers, Google is the internet, or at the very least Google is the start page of the internet and doorway to [...]

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Google Reader Still Showing Dupes

April 28, 2007

C’mon Google Reader I’m still getting dupes

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How Can So Many PHD’s Be So Wrong

April 14, 2007

There’s a famous saying that if you put enough chimpanzees in front of enough typewriters eventually you’ll end up with the works of William Shakespeare. However it’s seem the largest collection PHD’s in the world at Google are having a really hard time identifying paid links and have to resort to a bit of bluffing, [...]

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DoubleClick Becomes Part of Google Data Borg

April 14, 2007

Google paid through the nose buying Doubleclick, but man leveraging all that doubleclick cookie data into the Google data borg, that is just scary.

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Google Personalized Search – Don’t Become a Google Traffic Addict

April 4, 2007

Recently I was doing a bit of research on personalized search for two different projects (I love a bit of convergence) and I had a revelation, with Google’s personalized search they are creating traffic addicts for their own self interests.

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Google Calender Adds Weather Icons

March 13, 2007
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Contextual Advertising That makes me Laugh

March 9, 2007

Sometimes the ads in GMail crack me up

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Google Not Afraid to Big & Ugly for Your Data

February 28, 2007

In a non logged in account in IE Google is not afraid to get big and ugly to get you to download that toolbar and start sending them data. Notice it’s almost as big as the Google logo. Is getting your hands on my data really that important to you …
 

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Matt Cutts Wants You To Help Fight Spam

February 23, 2007

If you needed any further evidence that Google is ramming personal search and Google accounts down your throat for their own self interests you need look no further than the latest Google Patent about removing documents.

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Google: Greed over a Rollback

February 17, 2007

Google recently announced they were updating the Adwords Quality Score, however it appears that there is a bug that raises the prices form any advertisers:
Google AdWords Quality Score Has Major Bug
Google AdWords Adds Quality Score Column & To Improved Quality Algorithm from Wednesday warned us of the new changes coming but apparently there is a [...]

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Google Analytics Hiring and Sheepwalking

February 11, 2007

So I came across something from the Google analytics page about hiring a new representative
To meet Google’s exacting hiring standards, you’ll need an outstanding academic record from a highly ranked university and have a history of professional achievement.
Which struck me as kind of humorous as I just read Seth Godin talking about hiring and [...]

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Google Thinks I Love Danny Sullivan

February 10, 2007

Looking at latest stats from Google Reader, Google thinks I like Danny Sullivan more thank I like myself

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