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January 19, 2009
Google is in the process of rolling out a new feature called "Preferred Sites" that lets web users customize their search results by proactively telling Google that they consider certain websites valuable. Assuming this takes off - or even if...
September 22, 2008
Google's policy against clicking AdSense ads on your own website continues to annoy me. This time, it was a post on the Inside AdSense blog that drew my ire: However, we strongly advise against using your own AdSense for search...
September 9, 2008
Google announced yesterday that that made a change to how long they'll associate a search with an IP address in order to better protect user's privacy: Another step to protect user privacy We'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs...
August 18, 2008
What happens when someone searches for your name? Do they find you? Do they find other people by the same name? There are obvious benefits to showing up when someone searches for you. Especially if the results on the page...
August 16, 2008
Here are a few advanced searches that are incredibly valuable: 1. "quoting phrases" will search for the words within the quote in only that order. This is especially valuable when searching for people. 2. Searching within a site: site:technologyevangelist.com twitter...
August 14, 2008
Google came out with a post the other day clarifying different types of clicks they don't charge advertisers for, when detected. They break down into two categories: fraudulent clicks and invalid ones. Frauduent clicks are generally defined as those there...
July 16, 2008
According to TechDirt, Google is being sued by a lawyer who claims Google has been practicing "fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment" because he didn't get any leads out of $136.11 he spent on pay per click advertising. His...
July 10, 2008
I've become a big fan of Google Spreadsheets over the past few months for a number of reasons. The primary being the ability to collaboratively work on a single spreadsheet simultaneously from more than one location. That's a powerful feature...
June 3, 2008
Don't try this at home. I bumped up my Google Reader subscriptions last night from around 350 to 7570 for a work project. Fortunately, the blogs are very low volume so the increase in blog consumption wouldn't be that significant....
May 9, 2008
As a videocaster I try to keep up on the latest and greatest video players out there. From YouTube to Blip.tv to Revver to Google Video and many, many, many others. It seems that time and time again I end...
March 14, 2008
I just wrapped up a speaking tour where I created all of my presentations using Google's new web based presentations application. This is a look at how that worked. As a preface, the presentations I created were screen show heavy...
February 11, 2008
Is the world ready for resume revision histories? Imagine using Google Docs to write your resume. It's not a bad choice since you don't have to worry about losing it in a hard drive crash. Just login to your Google...
February 6, 2008
Steve Borsch pointed out on Twitter that it's amazing what you can find on the web using the "filetype:" command on Google. If you haven't tried this before, try typing the following line into a Google search box: ://www.flickr.com/photos/edkohler/2247423246/" title="filetype:ppt...
December 13, 2007
The Weekly Standard has a lengthy article taking a look at the landscape of Google's plans to digitize the world's books. Not surprisingly they're facing resistance from some corners. In general, the approach Google is taking to book search is...
December 11, 2007
Minneapolis gained big-city legitimacy today by joining the list of cities with Google Maps relatively new StreetView functionality. Map viewer now had the option to view their location of interest from a street map, aerial photos, or from a street...
November 30, 2007
Where does a person need to click on an ad to generate a click? On the ad, of course! Er, maybe? This is a question Google has been experimenting with lately, by making changes to their AdSense ad units. As...
November 4, 2007
FeedBurner stats across the web took a nose dive today. For example, this site dropped from around 2700 to 1665 subscribers overnight. Zoli Erdos did some digging and got to the bottom of it. For some reason, subscriber counts from...
October 25, 2007
I know everyone seems to think that Google is going to start eating into Microsoft Office, but I think it's going to be consuming the sales of Microsoft's flagship communications product first: Microsoft Exchange. Google recently released IMAP support...
Google has finally gotten around to adding a comments subscription option to Blogger powered blogs. It has a few limitations, but is a welcome improvement over nothing at all. The limitations: 1. It looks like you have to have a...
October 18, 2007
Apparently, I've been using Google too much. How much? So much that Google thinks I'm sending "automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application." I know I use Google a lot, but this much? Google offers two links in...
October 11, 2007
Back when Overture was an independent company (2002-ish), and before that went by the name Goto.com, the company lived and died based on syndication partnerships. AOL was one of their huge deals. Since they were basically the only game in...
October 3, 2007
Google's TV advertising division was well represented at this week's Electronic Retailing Association conference in Las Vegas. This is a summary of a presentation given by Google's Matt Derella. Google has been in the process of rolling out a TV...
September 18, 2007
The creative folks at CommonCraft.com have come up with a great explanation of the benefits of using web based document systems like Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and (as of today) Presentations. They've focused on the collaborative benefit. While Google Docs are...
In April 2006, I theorized that the columnists at the NY Times would push the Times drop the paid version because Select was hurting both the influence and secondary sales of columnist's book sales and speaking rates. While I'm still...
September 9, 2007
Using consistent naming conventions isn't always easy. Especially when you're creating functionality that's new in the marketplace. One example of this comes from Google, who seems to be trying to figure out the best way to explain hiding files within...
September 3, 2007
Bex Huff has written a fascinating review of a book by Eric Beinhocker called Origin of Wealth that takes a look at how economies work and how wealth is created. Huff, being a techie, latches on to the concept of...
July 19, 2007
This afternoon is turning out to be a rough one for Google. First, they reported less than expected earnings that sent the stock price dropping $40 as of this writing. Then NetApplication's monthly newsletter shipped with news that Yahoo has...
July 3, 2007
Google launched a new official communications blog for Gmail at: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ The first post went live this morning with a welcome message, so there is not much to look at yet, but if it follows the path of other official...
June 22, 2007
Is it a bad sign when John Battelle, the man who wrote the book on Google, the man who received unprecedented access to all things Google while writing his book, is now saying that he may have reached his, "Google...
June 17, 2007
There has been a bit of a dust-up in the world of online privacy following the release of a report that smacked Google for not doing enough to protect the privacy of their users. While the report seems to have...
June 16, 2007
Google, I know you're doing pretty well right now, but I thought I'd let you in on a little tip that may help you increase your earnings by one millionth of 1%: If I click the back button, give me...
June 12, 2007
The following question was posed to me earlier today: "Is Google making a big recruiting push in Minneapolis?" That's an interesting question considering that Google doesn't have a Minneapolis office . . . yet. This isn't based on an isolated...
May 30, 2007
Google announced the launch of a new way to customize your Google Maps at Where 2.0 called Mapplets. Mapplets allow you to personalize your Google Maps experience by overlaying data that is of interest to you. That could be anything...
May 9, 2007
Google Analytics has come out with their first major refresh, integrating much of the functionality and interface features of MeasureMap, a previous acquisition, into the program. Avinash Kaushik has a quick summary of what to look for in the changes:...
May 4, 2007
Relevancy is the key to getting people to click on ads, so it only makes sense for ad serving services, like Google AdWords, to use any data they can get their hands on to improve the relevancy of the ads...
April 18, 2007
Among the applications Google has integrated into their web based Office suite, a presentation application may be the most valuable: Google buys PowerPoint editor Tonic's TonicPoint tools allow you to open a PowerPoint presentation with your web browser, edit it,...
April 12, 2007
Yesterday's post on the AdSense click through rates of Digg users drew some interesting comments, including this one from Haf, where he points out that Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, is the second largest AdSense money maker: Hang on a sec:...
April 11, 2007
If I was Google, this is something that would scare the crap out of me: Digg users don't click ads. The first graph below shows the page views by day of a site I track which received two trips to...
April 6, 2007
Add this number to your phone with the contact name Google 411: 800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) Now, give it a call. Find out more about it here. via Steve Rubel on Twitter....
April 1, 2007
The folks over at mad4mobilephones have posted an interesting look at a Google Phone patent that suggests Google could use a phone's location to determine relevant search results for the phone user. This could allow users to search for general...
There is a long tradition of April Fools gags in Silicon Valley, especially at Sun Microsystems, where engineers variously built a putting green (with real grass!) in founder Scott McNealy's office one year and another year McNealy unlocked his...
March 19, 2007
PaidContent mentioned a WSJ report that Google's not making Comcast enough money from the search traffic on Comcast properties: Comcast Unhappy With Google On Search Deal; Talking To MSN; Other Ad Inventory Talks "Comcast thinks it should get a larger...
February 24, 2007
Google, this past week, announced its Google Apps Premier Edition, a web-based competitor to Microsoft Office priced at $50 per year with 10 gigabytes of online storage and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. For many organizations (here's a list...
February 11, 2007
Back in October, I wrote that Bloglines Still Beats Google Reader Today. It's time to update that statement. I've now made the switch to Google Reader. Google Reader has gotten better in terms of speed and interface. Some of my...
January 23, 2007
The folks running the Hitwise blog continues to crank out interesting peeks into the data they collect. This time, LeeAnn Prescott takes a look at the market share of RSS feed aggregators, including Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Netvibes and Google Reader:...
January 20, 2007
I noticed in our web stats that visitors are asking whether pinging a blog will increase inbound links. Here's the short answer: Pinging your blog does not increase the number of inbound links your site receives. And here's the long-winded...
January 6, 2007
Ben was ready to roll on January 1st with his technology predictions for 2007. Me? I needed a few days to figure things out. But this leaves me with only 360 days for things to come true. We'll have to...
December 28, 2006
MarketWatch reported on the 18th that Google was running into some issues related to ad inventory with their new radio offering: Google Inc.'s nascent radio advertisement business, known as Google Audio, has run into an unexpected snag: it seems Google...
December 17, 2006
Red Herring has reported on a comScore report stating that Fox Interactive, largely through Myspace, has surpassed Yahoo as the top dog for monthly page views: Fox Interactive Media窶冱 total U.S. page views increased to 39.5 million from 38.7 million...
December 15, 2006
Robert Cringely's column this week offered some interesting thoughts on whether Google, through their purchase of YouTube, has won the online video battle : But the very success of YouTube strongly suggests that there won't be another YouTube, simply because...
December 11, 2006
Google's Dodgeball.com has finally launched a mobile version of their mobile networking site. I'm a big fan of the Dodgeball service, but have been frustrated with the lack of a mobile interface since day one since the basic interface is...
December 8, 2006
Not that long ago I wrote an article about syncing a Treo to iCal to gCal and back again. This process required a lot of steps and a $99.00 yearly subscription to .Mac. While it worked, a more elegant...
November 15, 2006
Resources cited during the Metro Brokers Technology Seminar Technology Evangelist Treo 700 Phones Treonauts Blog Fujitsu Fujitsu T-4215 Tabnote Computers Fujitsu S500 Scanners Pricegrabber Google Google Docs Google AdWords Gmail iTunes Skype Garmin Nuvi Kodak v705 Camera Bloglines Sprint...
I recently started having a nagging problem with FireFox on my Macbook Pro where FireFox would randomly freeze and serve up the spinning beach ball of death. I could force quit out of it and generally start back up where...
November 8, 2006
Reuters, via CNET, has published an interesting article about Google's latest moves into radio advertising. Google bought DMarc Broadcasting back in January, but hasn't integrated the radio ad service into their ad console to date although it sounds like they're...
November 7, 2006
Today is Election Day in the United States, so I thought it would be a fitting day to take a look at where we'll be sending our elected officials to: Washington, DC. Or more precisely, the US Capitol. That's what...
November 1, 2006
Top Blog Posts for October How Blogs Hurt Google News Google Rebrands Writely to Launch Docs & Spreadsheets How .Mac saved my computer Why Would WalMart Need a Fake Blog to Communicate with RV Travelers? A Few Perspectives on Internet...
October 31, 2006
Steve Rubel points out that Google has acquired JotSpot. Google continues to roll on with another acquisition. It just gobbled up JotSpot. And now the wiki service will be free and integrated with the rest of Google's suite of web-based...
CNET is reporting that Google has started cutting revenue sharing deals with video content creators: The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The...
October 23, 2006
Steve Rubel notes that Google has added a blog search to their Google News tab. "Google has made a small, but important change to Google News. On the top right hand part of the page next to the Archive Search...
October 22, 2006
Chris Mesinna provides a rant about how Google is evil and their integration of Dodgeball with Google Accounts is the latest sign of their evilness. "Don?｢どｨび｢t say I didn?｢どｨび｢t warn you, but now when you try to log into your...
October 20, 2006
Dodgeball.com made their first public changes in a long time yesterday when they - well, Google - integrated the service with Google accounts. They also changed the logged-in homepage from the quickly irrelevant introductory Flash animation to a status update...
Are you this bad of a speller? Do you type messages on blogs, click the ABC Check button on the Google Toolbar to turn the questionably spelled terms red, then click "Add to Dictionary" after Google's told you a term...
October 18, 2006
"That's where they got that Picasso." -Jake Blues - The Blues Brothers Jake Blues' proved to be more than your average convict musician with his comment about the artwork in Richard J. Daley Plaza. He was referring to this:...
October 17, 2006
Is the quality of search results on Google News dropping? A few recent comments from A-list political bloggers and certifiable news junkies seems to point in that direction. First, we have John Aravosis from AmericaBlog raising the subject: "Is it...
October 11, 2006
It looks like Google has finished rebranding Writely as Google Docs and integrating that with Google Spreadsheets. I say this as I write this using Google Docs after being redirected to it from my Writely bookmark. Here is a look...
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