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Google

Personalized Search – The Feature No one is Asking For

February 8, 2007

As the debate over personalized search continues I asked myself this question, is anyone one really asking for personalized search results?

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Google Maps and Click to Call

February 4, 2007

So I’ve been playing with some local/maps features and tried “click to call” and found it was pretty cool and useful.

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Google Video Getting Personalized

February 3, 2007

I was looking for something on Google Video today, and looking at the most recommended videos I see some personalization going on.

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Google is Not My Mother, and Should Kill Personalized Search

February 2, 2007

If Aaron’s correct that they are increasing personalized search and turning off notification, and I have no reason to doubt him, I have to say whatever rocket scientist came up with that idea should be handed a pink slip and thrown out the door.

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Gmail Is it Big Enough

January 29, 2007

So I’ve been living in a brand new Gmail account for almost a month now, and I’ve grown used to it but I, see a problem on the horizon I’m going to run out of space.

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Google MFA and No Way Out!

January 28, 2007

I know Werty showed something similar to this at pubcon, but this is as bad as I’ve ever seen it. 12 sponsored ads on a page and almost no way out but to click the ads. Yes I know there are two links in the upper right but well seems a bit like an MFA [...]

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Google’s Policy on No follow and Reviews is Hypocritical and Wrong

January 25, 2007

I’m not exactly sure what caused all this secondary fuss about no-follow and reviews lately but I think it’s time someone pointed out that Google is being extremely hypocritical about the entire thing and using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to corral web publishers to their way of thinking.

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What I Miss About Not Working at Google

January 24, 2007

I’m a curious person, I like to experiment, try new things, read and learn. You wouldn’t know it by looking at my permanent record or report card since I graduated high school 374th out of 400. You also wouldn’t know it looking at my college transcripts because I tried going to college twice and dropped [...]

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Are Ajax Applications Immune to Clickbots

January 22, 2007

I’ve been playing with GMail and Google Reader lately and becoming more accustomed to the AJAX/Javascript interfaces. Which got me to thinking how good are they at separating humans from clickbots.

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Gmail Ads in Persian?

January 21, 2007

I can assure you no one was speaking in Persian and no I wasn’t surfing from a proxy server

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Google Adwords and the Search Network – Needs a Line Item Veto

January 21, 2007

Since I’ve been experimenting with purchasing my my own name on Adwords, and I’m being forced to pay a premium price for it I’ve been watching my campaign closely, and there are definitely some problems.

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More Adwords Quality Stupidity

January 17, 2007

So exactly why do I have to raise my bids to $0.20 and $0.30 for terms like [michael gray] , [graywolf], and [greywolf] when there are only 2 other people bidding? Am I somehow not relevant for those terms?

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Strange and Irrelevant Gmail Advertisements

January 17, 2007

So I’m logged into GMail and I see some strange ads down in the lower right hand corner.

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Google and Personalized Search – Collective Data Borg

January 14, 2007

I’m getting pretty in depth in studying the tools and services Google makes available to people with Google accounts. However I came across something today that made me wrinkle my nose and look down over the top of my glasses like my Grandma did when she knew I was telling fibs.

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Interpreting Data from Webmaster Central – Page with the Highest PageRank

January 11, 2007

I’m really a big fan of webmaster central it’s about the closest you’re going to come to getting some info about the “health” of your site in Google.

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Google Blog Feed Bundles

January 11, 2007

So how does one get to be included in the Google feed bundles page? I’d give you a link to it but because it’s trapped behind an unlinkable AJAX page I can’t (I told you AJAX was stupid) so you’ll have settle for a picture:

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Google Webmaster Central and Google Accounts

January 11, 2007

Hey Google can we get a link for Webmaster Central put on the Google accounts page when you are signed in?

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Google Maps ‘Send to Phone’ Oddities

January 8, 2007

So when I search Google Maps for [1 penn plaza ny ny] I get this result

However when I search for [penn station bookstore], which is at the same address, I get the ’send to phone option’ shown below. I’d really like to have the ’send to phone’ for both.

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