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January 25, 2005Yup, Google Launches Video SearchGoogle has quietly added a video search to their labs. The labs are at http://labs.google.com , the video search is at http://video.google.com/ . And as always, the interface is simple;...Read the rest of entry "Yup, Google Launches Video Search " here. January 21, 2005Google Releasing an API for Google AdWords?Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting ( http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/01/scoop_google_to.php ) that Google is planning to release an AdWords API to AdWords advertisers (not to the publishers who put Google ads on...Read the rest of entry "Google Releasing an API for Google AdWords?" here. January 20, 2005Picasa BlogHey, did you know there was a Picasa 2 blog at http://picasa2.blogspot.com? Yeah, me neither. Bit thin on content at the moment....What Happened to Google's Ten-Word Query Limit?Has Google tanked their ten-word query limit? A search for one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve: Sample Google Search Gets over four million results....Read the rest of entry "What Happened to Google's Ten-Word Query Limit?" here. January 17, 2005Building Research Tools With Google for DummiesDid Google Hacks not fill you with enough Googly Goodness? Check out Building Research Tools with Google for Dummies. Author Harold Davis has a companion site available at http://www.braintique.com/research/ ....Read the rest of entry "Building Research Tools With Google for Dummies" here. January 15, 2005Yep, There Was a Google / GMail BugYes, there was a GMail Bug -- but it's been fixed already .......Read the rest of entry "Yep, There Was a Google / GMail Bug " here. Stepping Around Google HacksAs I understand it, the reason O'Reilly called the "Hacks" series the "Hacks" series was to reclaim the word, noting that "hackers" were people who tried to do nifty stuff...January 14, 2005Google's New Mini Search ApplianceGoogle's announced the new Google Mini on their blog. There's a page on it at http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/; Google describes it as " a hardware and software search appliance that offers your...Read the rest of entry "Google's New Mini Search Appliance " here. January 12, 2005Google News Boo-BooI am putting this here so I don't have to remember it later. Google News has a boo-boo. I wanted to double-check the source name for PRNewswire. The "source name"...January 07, 2005Quick Rundown of Useful Google LinksThere's a quick rundown of useful Google links at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001208.html. Sections here include patents, tools, and Froogle. A nice introduction....Read the rest of entry "Quick Rundown of Useful Google Links" here. January 03, 2005Mailing List for Distributing GMail InvitesIf you've got some GMail invites to distribute, or you're looking for one, you might want to check out a new list for both requesting and distributing GMail invites: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/GiveAndTake....Read the rest of entry "Mailing List for Distributing GMail Invites" here. January 02, 2005Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving GoogleAccording to SiliconBeat, Google's vice president of corporate marketing, Cindy McCaffrey, is leaving Google. I communicated a lot with Cindy in Google's early years. She was always very straight up...Read the rest of entry "Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving Google" here. January 01, 2005Barbara Quint, Askin' the Questions About Google ScholarBarbara Quint, editor-in-chief of Searcher and all-around very brainy person, has a roundup of questions and answers about the new Google library project -- mostly from a library/librarian's point of...Read the rest of entry "Barbara Quint, Askin' the Questions About Google Scholar" here. December 29, 2004Google Scholar has a New Advanced SearchHat tip to Gary "Resource Shelf" Price for the pointer to Google Scholar's new advanced search, available at http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search . Using the advanced search you can search for articles written...Read the rest of entry "Google Scholar has a New Advanced Search " here. December 28, 2004Massive Google Doodle ControversySomeone's taking the Google Doodle way too seriously. However, Google's taking them seriously right back. "Dude ... they made more snowballs, okay?" snicker....Read the rest of entry "Massive Google Doodle Controversy" here. December 27, 2004Get Just Google Adwords ResultsWondering what ads Google has for a particular keyword? Do your search at http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks. You'll get JUST sponsored results. For interesting search results, try a keyword that's heavily in the...Read the rest of entry "Get Just Google Adwords Results " here. Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords AdsHi Brad! I liked Google for Dummies. I want to take a look at "Building Your Business with Google For Dummies"; it's currently on my miles-long reading list. I wanted...Read the rest of entry "Response to Brad Hill on Google AdWords Ads" here. December 21, 2004Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University LibraryThe Georgia State University Library has a very nice page on using Google Scholar at http://www.library.gsu.edu/googlescholar/. Find the reference in Google, find it locally, and if you need help consult...Read the rest of entry "Using Google Scholar at Georgia State University Library" here. Holiday Google DoodleHo ho ho, the new holiday Google Doodle is available at http://www.google.com/doodle9.html . Anyone else afraid those polar bears are going to reach for a Coke?...Google Suggest DissectedA nerd after my own heart dissected the Javascript behind Google Suggest. You can read his observations (and the over 80 comments thus far!) at http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html....December 14, 2004Google Planning To Index Entire LibrariesFor a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I'd call it...Read the rest of entry "Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries" here. December 12, 2004Google Alphabet From A to WheePatrick Gaskill got clever after Google Suggest was released and checked to see the first word suggested after typing in a letter of the alphabet. This experiment spawned the Google...Read the rest of entry "Google Alphabet From A to Whee" here. December 09, 2004Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google SuggestGoogle's Labs has popped out a new beta -- Google Suggest. Google Suggest looks like the regular Google search, except as you type in keywords Google -- surprise! -- tries...Read the rest of entry "Google Has A New One for the Labs -- Google Suggest" here. December 08, 2004New Google News CountriesThere are new countries/editions available for Google News: Argentina, Chile, Canada Français, México, Österreich, Schweiz and Suisse. As always, you can get to them from the edition listings at the...December 07, 2004Google Makes Changes to the Site Flavored Search BoxGoogle has made a few changes to their site-flavored search box, which you can find at Google Labs ( http://labs.google.com ) or directly at http://www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html . This tool allows you...Read the rest of entry "Google Makes Changes to the Site Flavored Search Box" here. December 02, 2004MoreGoogle is Now LostGogglesAndreas dropped me a note to let me know he's been hit with the C&D stick, and MoreGoogle, which I covered in June, is now called http://lostgoggles.com. Same services, different...Read the rest of entry "MoreGoogle is Now LostGoggles" here. November 22, 2004Weblog Devoted to Google ScholarIt hadda happen. An entire Weblog devoted to Google Scholar....Read the rest of entry "Weblog Devoted to Google Scholar" here. gdSuite -- An Extension to Google DesktopAir Bear Software has come up with an extension to the Google Desktop gdSuite. As it's described on the site, "gdSuite uses Google Desktop to find items. Then, gdSuite filters...Read the rest of entry "gdSuite -- An Extension to Google Desktop" here. Google Scholar BookmarkletPaul Pival has come up with a few Google Scholar bookmarklets. Go Paul!...November 21, 2004The Google Deskbar APIGoogle's Deskbar ( http://deskbar.google.com/ ) now has an API ( http://deskbar.google.com/help/api/index.html ) which uses the .NET Framework. From Google's page: "The Google Deskbar plug-in is a simple extension mechanism for...Gmail Generation Mailing ListPropburgers to Aimless Words for the pointer to Gmail Generation, a list to discuss all things related to Gmail. Membership is closed and by application....Read the rest of entry "Gmail Generation Mailing List" here. November 18, 2004Google Offers Google ScholarGoogle has released a new search tool for academic content called Google Scholar. It's in beta, it's got its own syntax, and it is available at http://scholar.google.com/ . You may...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Google Scholar " here. November 10, 2004Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page IndexThere have been rumors swirling around for the past week or so about the Googlebot going mad and indexing tons and tons of Web sites. There was a lot of...Read the rest of entry "Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page Index" here. November 05, 2004Extend Google DesktopGDSPlus is an extension for Google Desktop which will allow it to index more kinds of content, including .rtf, .xml, .bat, and .vb. I think it's free....November 01, 2004Google Image Search FormatWas I over at the pasta buffet when Google added PNG, BMP, and TIF support to their image search?...Google Halloween CostumesThe Google Blog has pictures of Halloween at the Googleplex. I am rockin' out to that Captain America costume....October 28, 2004Gmail Bugs ListGoogle's got a list of Gmail's bugs at http://www.google.com/gmail/help/bugslist.html. This list does not include the recently announced security hole, which has been fixed....Google's Cheat Sheet Reveals A Couple Hidden SyntaxesGoogle has released a new cheat sheet at http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html . It's a list of syntaxes you can use with Google's search engine, along with some of the specialty offerings like...Read the rest of entry "Google's Cheat Sheet Reveals A Couple Hidden Syntaxes " here. October 24, 2004Google Desktop ProxyProject Computing has released a Google Desktop Proxy. This Java tool will allow other computers to access your Google desktop search results remotely. Um, ick, though I suppose there are...Gmail Invite ScriptOh, this is cute! A GMail Invite Script. It requires PHP. It generates a PNG file showing how many GMail invites you have available. Nice!...October 18, 2004October 17, 2004Google Code Jam WinnersCongratulations to Google Code Jam Winners Sergio Sancho, Po-Ru Loh, Reid Barton, and Tomasz Czajka....October 10, 2004Google Code Jam FinalistsThe 50 Google Code Jam finalists were listed in a press release from Google....October 08, 2004Google Announces Google SMSGoogle announced yesterday Google SMS, a way for people with SMS-enabled phones to access Google information. More details on it are available at http://sms.google.com . After some goofing around and...October 06, 2004Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh ArghSince I got back from Web Search University I have been buried in sites and resources to review. I despair of catching up. And they keep piling on, as evidenced...Read the rest of entry "Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh" here. October 03, 2004Using Google for African Studies ResearchHans Zell Publishing has established a pilot version of their guide Using Google for African Studies Research at http://www.hanszell.co.uk/google/ . The material contained here has a lot of general information...Read the rest of entry "Using Google for African Studies Research" here. October 02, 2004Google Labs Job ApplicationGoogle is hiring and they've got a little quiz for applicants -- the Google Labs Aptitude Test. Amusingly retro; they should have mimeographed it with that horrible purple ink....Google Goes Froogle in the UKFroogle now has a UK component at www.google.co.uk/froogle. I can't see that the search results are any different, however. There's a discussion about the new site at WebmasterWorld. I suspect...Read the rest of entry "Google Goes Froogle in the UK " here. September 24, 2004Weblog Post on GMail AppsIf you're looking for some guidance on good GMail apps, Aimless Words has a blog post that might be able to help you....September 22, 2004Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search FormThis form doesn't work any more since Google has separated out its Google Print material from its main search engine index. Google has digitized a certain amount of printed material...Read the rest of entry "Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form" here. Get or Give Gmail Invites With GMailOMaticI heard about this last week, but when I tried to send it a couple invitations, it didn't work. It worked yesterday so I'll mention it. GmailOMatic ( http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php) allows...Read the rest of entry "Get or Give Gmail Invites With GMailOMatic" here. September 18, 2004Power Google CourseReg Aubry, who is NOT related to Reg Shoe or the Flying Aubrys, but who is the discoverer of the phonebook: syntax, is offering an online course called Power Google:...September 16, 2004Google Enhances Google Local ServiceGoogle has announced enhancements to its newish Google Local service at http://local.google.com . When you go to the page you'll see a space for what you're looking for and another...Read the rest of entry "Google Enhances Google Local Service" here. September 13, 2004What's New With Google NewsGoogle News has added a whole bunch of features while we weren't lookin'. First off there's a new pull-down menu at the top of the page which easily allows you...September 07, 2004Happy Sixth Birthday Google!Google celebrates its sixth birthday. Unfortunately that logo doesn't link to query. "WOO HOO!" perhaps?...September 02, 2004Gooooooooogle Google WhoopsYou may have noticed that Google AdSense ads now say "Ads by Gooooooooogle". When I saw this I thought, "Okay, that's cute, so if you go to Gooooooooogle.com you'll get...Google Code Jam 2004Yesterday opened the registration for the Google Code Jam 2004. You can register at http://www.google.com/codejam/ . Finals are on October 15. First place winner gets ten grand!...August 18, 2004Getcher Google Results With ThumbnailsI have mentioned more and more in the last few months search engines which offer small screen shots of pages (thumbnails) with search results. While these are certainly nothing new...Read the rest of entry "Getcher Google Results With Thumbnails " here. August 16, 2004Google MindmapThis is cute! I like this. It makes my brain hurt. In a good way. http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_08_11_index.html#109222064061401876...August 14, 2004Yahoo Has a Special Edition for Google's IPOOkay, sure, why not. Keep up with Google's IPO at Yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/special/googleipo2.html ....Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Has a Special Edition for Google's IPO" here. August 04, 2004Frequency of Source Appearance in Google NewsDigital Deliverance looked at how often sources appear on the front page of Google News. Very interesting breakdown. I've got some ideas rolling around in my of search engine result...Read the rest of entry "Frequency of Source Appearance in Google News" here. Google's Added Dates to their Caches AgainGoogle's caches again have dates. Thanks to his Garyness for the pointer....Read the rest of entry "Google's Added Dates to their Caches Again" here. August 03, 2004A Google Tool For MozillaIf you're using FireFox, you may want to check out LookAhead ( http://lookahead.mozdev.org/ ), a tool for proactively getting Google results in multiple browser windows. Once you've installed the extension,...July 30, 2004Go On With Your Googly SelfGary Price has a listing of July domain name registrations that are somehow Google related. He lists a couple of the most interesting ones at the top -- at least...July 28, 2004Google's Official IPO Information PageAnother one to throw into Trackle.....Read the rest of entry "Google's Official IPO Information Page" here. July 26, 2004Google Suffering Functionality Loss after Virus Attack?I've been getting some e-mails claiming that certain types of Google searches -- specifically inurl:, site:, and link: searches -- are returning errors. I find simple keyword searches work fine,...Read the rest of entry "Google Suffering Functionality Loss after Virus Attack? " here. July 21, 2004Gmail Allowing Address Book Imports"Since the weekend, Google's free email service, called Gmail, has been letting its users transfer their address book contacts from Yahoo Mail, Microsoft's Hotmail and AOL Mail. Yahoo allows immediate...Read the rest of entry "Gmail Allowing Address Book Imports" here. July 20, 200423 Reasons Google Can Become a Penny StockAn absolutely wubba-producing press release at PRWeb. (A wubba-producing press release is when I read it, my eyes get all big, and I squeak, "Wubba?") I could be here all...Read the rest of entry "23 Reasons Google Can Become a Penny Stock" here. Google Circa 1960Har! Most excellent. But it'd be funnier if it were mimeographed. I'm waiting for the scroll version, the message-in-a-bottle-version, the carrier pigeon version, and the version where the gentlefolk bring...July 15, 2004Google Adds Browse By Name Feature to ToolbarThe Google Toolbar ( http://toolbar.google.com ) has a new feature: Browse by Name. Browse by Name allows you to type words into the Internet Explorer address bar and get relevant...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Browse By Name Feature to Toolbar" here. July 14, 2004Larry Chase Adds Google Tool CategoryLarry Chase's "Search Engine for Marketers" site has added a category for Google tips and tools. Tools listed here (there are 13 at the moment) include AdSense charts, Froogle tools,...Read the rest of entry "Larry Chase Adds Google Tool Category" here. July 08, 2004Google Warns Potential InvestorsGoogle's dropping a wet blanket in their IPO. "In a financial document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google emphasized again that its shares are at high risk of...Read the rest of entry "Google Warns Potential Investors" here. Building Your Business With Google for DummiesInterview with author Brad Hill, who also did Google for Dummies....Read the rest of entry "Building Your Business With Google for Dummies" here. July 05, 2004Google bans GMail SalesBBC notes that Google is banning GMail sales. I don't really know how I feel about the issue per se, but -- where was Google a couple weeks ago when...June 28, 2004Google Offering a Little Different On Their Cache -- Cached Text OnlyBig ol' props to Patrick at SEO DotComicide ( www.dotcomicide.com ) for pointing me to this. Google is now offering two forms of cached items: a full cache, and cached...June 20, 2004Google's GMail Now has Its Own DMOZ CategoryGMail now has its own DMOZ category, for all you GMailaholics. It's available at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/E-mail/Free/Web-Based/G/Gmail/. There are eight links here at the moment, including "Mbox & Maildir to Gmail Loader...Read the rest of entry "Google's GMail Now has Its Own DMOZ Category" here. June 17, 2004Google Cooking Up Customized Search In th' LabsGoogle is offering a new feature in its labs:the "Site-Flavored Google Search Box." The direct link for it is http://www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html . You'll need to use Mozilla, IE, or Netscape for...Read the rest of entry "Google Cooking Up Customized Search In th' Labs" here. Forums Devoted to GMailhttp://www.googlegmails.com/ contains several forums devoted to GMail and a few more general discussions....Another Option for Gmail to POP3There's eMail2Pop at http://www.email2pop.com./, which was apparently originally developed for AOL but now works for AOL and Gmail. I haven't tried it. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....Read the rest of entry "Another Option for Gmail to POP3" here. | ||||
