Google Co-Up search went live this week and is just as awesome a search product as we’ve come to expect from Google. Like Rollyo, Google Co-Op allows the user to define a custom search engine that performs a search on a subset of websites. For example, here’s a quick custom search of Google that searches…
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Google’s Webmaster Central has a lot of tools for webmasters to make sure everything on their site is submitted to Google and to track Google’s status in indexing a site.
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A number of conservative websites have been slamming Google lately — it started with Google’s foray into China, but has ranged from Google’s removing sites from its Google News service because they ran racist anti-Muslim screeds to rumors that Google is a major source of funding for MoveOn.Org. But the anti-Google screed that takes the…
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Chinua Achebe is a famous novelist. His 1958 book, Things Fall Apart, is a widely read novel describing the effects of Western colonialism. Anyway, in 1987 Achebe wrote a novel about the failure of African politicians and intellectuals, Anthills of the Savanna which is also apparently very good (I haven’t read it). But Google currently…
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Desktop search is one of my obsessions, especially given how much data I tend to generate. Google’s first effort at a desktop search tool left me nonplussed, but the recently released Google Desktop 2 makes quite a few strides in the right direction even if it continues to come up short. The good news is…
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Google’s tantrum over this CNet story strike me as a classic example of a corporate public relations disaster. In order to highlight the privacy concerns that some people have about Google, CNet’s story published personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt that it obtained through Google Searches on Schmidt. The CNet story begins, Google CEO…
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Google’s been receiving a lot of criticism lately as it grows bigger and bigger, and for the most part I think a lot of that criticism has been misplaced. One area where Google has clearly screwed up, however, is Google News. Google uses an inexplicable process to determine which sites do and do not get…
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Related to my earlier post about search engines, generally, and Google, specifically, there is of course the wonderfully titled Just Fucking Google It, complete with Bart Simpson offering advice. Which would be made easier, of course, if people have the tools and skills to intelligently search Google. But many of them do not, and the…
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Dave Winer again excoriates Google, Lucovsky’s blog has gone 404. Editorial: Lucovsky shouldn’t have trashed his former employer in a Google-owned space. But you don’t pull the site because of that. You learn, grow, show your mistakes, do it better next time. Mark L’s former employer gets it, Google does not. The company that owns…
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You just have to appreciate the sort of bombast that Dave Winer can generate. Google creates a beta version of its toolbar that automatically detects addresses and turns them into links to Google Maps automatically — if the user explicitly chooses this behavior — and it turns out to be the end of the Web…