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August 25, 2005Negative-Only Searches in GoogleI was inspired by another 'blog post to confirm that Google allows negative-only searching. And they do. I can't fathom this ever being useful except to build odd games (Google...Read the rest of entry "Negative-Only Searches in Google" here. August 21, 2005Getting Random Google VideosGoogle pointed out that there's now a page for random Google videos at http://video.google.com/videorandom . Go to the page and you'll see links to 20 random videos. You can reload...August 20, 2005Google Launches Adsense BlogThose of you using Adsense may want to check out the new Adsense blog, at http://adsense.blogspot.com/ . It appears to be official. Not heavily populated but useful, straight-from-Google type information,...August 19, 2005Google In 116 LanguagesGoogle has announced that Google is now available in 116 languages, including Cambodia, Tonga, and Yoruba. I'm surprised we haven't seen any Native American languages yet -- Cherokee? Navajo?...August 16, 2005Google Announces Enhanced Froogle MobileThe Google people have announced an enhanced version of Froogle Mobile at their blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/attention-froogle-shoppers.html. It supports price checking in the US and the UK. You'll need a phone that...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Enhanced Froogle Mobile" here. August 11, 2005Google Tweaks Their Blank-MatchingWhile Google doesn't offer deliberate stemming in their searching, they do offer a full-word wildcard, which you can get by using an asterisk (*). Thus you can, if you search...Read the rest of entry "Google Tweaks Their Blank-Matching" here. August 10, 2005Are You Being Cached?Handy tool for finding out if your site is being cached by Google at http://www.webuildpages.com/cache/cachetoolpublic.pl . Enter a URL and it'll scan it for a list of internal links. Then...Speaking of Google WikisI mentioned an unofficial Wiki for Google a little while ago. Now there's another one just for Google mapping applications at http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page. Look at the projects page. Wow. Couldn't this...Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel SpreadsheetsAutomateExcel, which I'm enjoying very much, has an article about downloading Google search results to a spreadsheet and then doing backlink checking for the top results....Read the rest of entry "Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel Spreadsheets " here. Google News and RSS FeedsMy husband walked in as I was in the kitchen making lunch (hummus on rye and iced tea.) As I moved around the room I did a Jules Feifferesque dance....August 07, 2005Interesting Places on Google MapsThere's a directory of interesting Google Maps locations at http://explorer.altopix.com/ . The directory is user submitted and currently has over several hundred (at least) entries in a variety of categories...Read the rest of entry "Interesting Places on Google Maps " here. Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon WorldYou extremely old-school geeks may remember Dave Taylor as the guy behind Elm. I first encountered him as the author of one of my mother's required books for a computer...Read the rest of entry "Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon World" here. August 05, 2005Scrabble Tourneys on Google MapsReader MT sent this in because he knows I'm a mashup nut. And this is a good one. Scrabble tournaments mapped on Google Maps using those little letter square things!...Read the rest of entry "Scrabble Tourneys on Google Maps " here. August 04, 2005The Unofficial Google WikiIf you're surprised by this, why? There's an unofficial Google Wiki now available at http://google.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page . There's not much to it yet (all of 9 articles available) but the front...July 30, 2005Google Maps in Excel SpreadsheetsTwo great tastes that go great together. Automate Excel, which is getting pride of place at the top of my RSS feed reader, is putting Google Maps in Excel. Whoopee!...Read the rest of entry "Google Maps in Excel Spreadsheets" here. July 26, 2005Google Updates Personalization OfferingBack in May, Google started offering personalization options. I wrote about it then and made no bones of the fact that I hated it. Google has updated the service with...Read the rest of entry "Google Updates Personalization Offering " here. July 23, 2005Finding Spreadsheets With GoogleAutomate Excel, which I am still enjoying very much, has a 'blog entry on finding spreadsheets with Google. ( http://www.automateexcel.com/index.php/2005/07/23/google_for_spreadsheets ). More power to you but you can have even...Read the rest of entry "Finding Spreadsheets With Google" here. Google Maps Now Has Hybrid FeatureGoogle Maps has added a new hybrid feature. Want more than the satellite pix? More than the map? Now you can have both. It's a floor wax and a dessert...Read the rest of entry "Google Maps Now Has Hybrid Feature" here. July 06, 2005Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video ResultsSomeone's cooked up a form for finding Google Video results with only playable video in them; try it at http://www.strix.org.uk/misc/video.google/index.php. The site also points out that the special syntax source:upload...Read the rest of entry "Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video Results" here. Keeping Up With Google Maps HacksHaving trouble keeping up with the flood of Google Maps hacks? Me too. A new blog has started keeping track of them, with lots of entries and brief but comprehensive...Read the rest of entry "Keeping Up With Google Maps Hacks " here. July 05, 2005Google Maps Mashed With Census DataI've known about gCensus for a while but apparently so did the rest of the world, and I was never able to get the site to work. Now it appears...Read the rest of entry "Google Maps Mashed With Census Data" here. June 29, 2005Google Announces Video ViewerA couple months ago I mentioned Google's video upload program. This week Google announced a new Google Video viewer, so you can actually see the video that's been updated. Details...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Video Viewer" here. Google Releases API for Google MapsIn a move that should increase late night Web resource mashups and caffeine consumption on a grand scale, Google has announced an API for its Google Maps service. Information is...Read the rest of entry "Google Releases API for Google Maps" here. Google Launches Personalized Search in BetaGoogle's launched a new personalized search service that adjusts your search results depending on what you've searched for before. Of course as a new Google product it's in beta; you...Read the rest of entry "Google Launches Personalized Search in Beta " here. June 13, 2005DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result MashupMore searching and mashup goodness! Whoopee! This time it's a project from the Computer Science department at Northwestern University. It's called DoubleTrust and it's at http://www.doubletrust.net . What DoubleTrust does...Read the rest of entry "DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result Mashup" here. June 09, 2005Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo ResultsI find visual comparisons annoying. I'm a text-crawler. But this one I find less annoying than most. While this site is one that uses Flash to show search results, it's...Read the rest of entry "Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo Results" here. June 08, 2005Generate Google Sitemaps AutomaticallyIf you're into the idea of Google Sitemaps but you're not into rolling your own SiteMap, check out SiteMapsPal at http://www.sitemapspal.com/, which has a handy online form for generating SiteMaps...Read the rest of entry "Generate Google Sitemaps Automatically" here. Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?Man, if it were anywhere near April 1st I would be seriously wondering about this story. BetaNews is reporting on a story at SiliconValleyWatcher that Google is attempting to map...Read the rest of entry "Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco? " here. June 07, 2005ODP Adds GoogleThe Open Directory Project has a new "Recreations" subdirectory for Google at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/Recreations/ . This section contains a bunch of offbeat, interesting-but-not-necessarily-useful Google-related pointers....Google Announces Google SitemapsGoogle has announced Google Sitemaps, which is a free online service for Webmasters. The idea it that the better information Google has about a site the better and more completely...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Google Sitemaps " here. June 01, 2005Henk van Ess Drops Google BombHenk van Ess and I have corresponded occasionally; he's a sharp guy who keeps a close eye on Google. It looks like he's found something in the Googleplex that's going...Read the rest of entry "Henk van Ess Drops Google Bomb" here. It's Google's Summer of CodePut on your tie-dyed pocket protectors and your granny glasses, baby, because it's Google's summer of code. Or something. Don't try to write clever lead-ins this late at night. Here's...List of Googlers' Papers at Google LabsNo, it's not some cool feature that allows you to get all your search results upside-down and shaped like pineapples. Instead it's a pointer to a collection of papers done...Read the rest of entry "List of Googlers' Papers at Google Labs" here. May 28, 2005Google Map Hacking GoodnessInterested in all those Google Map hacks out there? Want to see how it's done? Visit http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html , which contains several steps on how you can customize and add information...May 22, 2005Blogcritics is Satire?Why does Google News list all of Blogcritics ( http://www.blogcritics.org) as satire? If you do a Google News search for book blogcritics you'll see that the Blogcritics results (actually the...May 17, 2005Getcher Cheap Gas Prices on Google MapsRemember when I was saying that I would love a Gasbuddy / Google Maps mashups that showed cheap gas prices along a trip route? Turns out somebody has already done...Read the rest of entry "Getcher Cheap Gas Prices on Google Maps" here. May 11, 2005Google Factory TourGoogle is having a factory tour on May 19th, but alas alack I had to tell them I couldn't make it. The event is being described as "Google's first annual...May 09, 2005Several Sites Expressing Concern About Google Web AcceleratorRecently I mentioned a new offering from Google called Google Web Accelerator. (Hereafter referred to as GWA.) The idea behind it is that it can speed up your surfing by...Read the rest of entry "Several Sites Expressing Concern About Google Web Accelerator " here. Google News To RSS ScraperTimYang.com has a Google News scraper available called ScrappyGoo. It scrapes Google News results and generates an RSS feed of the results, supplying 16 results at a time. Since this...May 05, 2005Google Offers Web AcceleratorGoogle has gotten into the Web accelerating business with the launch of Google Web Accelerator, available at http://webaccelerator.google.com/. Unfortunately when I try to look at it, I don't get information....Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Web Accelerator" here. April 30, 2005Google News Ranking Patent?BetaNews reports on new patents filed by Google that indicate Google's plans to rank stories by source quality and credibility. Of course, they could also provide a source list and...April 27, 2005Google -- My Search HistoryGoogle's now getting into helping you keep up with your search history with the release of -- surprise! -- My Search History. All the skinny is now available at https://www.google.com/searchhistory/login...April 19, 2005Google Maps Goes to the UKHey, Google Maps has gone to the UK! You can check out the new Maps at http://maps.google.co.uk/. And while you're wandering virtually around the UK, check out Google Local UK....April 18, 2005An RSS Reader in GMail?Evan points to what looks like an RSS reader in GMail. Hm, sez I, sounds interesting. So I go to GMail and look for it, and I don't see anything,...Google.orgCheers to Google Blogoscoped for the pointer to http://www.google.org, which describes itself as "the philanthropic arm of Google." Nothing much there yet except the admission that there's nothing much there...April 12, 2005The Google Video Upload ProgramUm, okay. Google has started a video upload program. They're soliciting the general public to upload videos to them as part of their video program. You remember when I mentioned...Read the rest of entry "The Google Video Upload Program" here. April 11, 2005Compare Yahoo and Google ResultsWondering EXACTLY what the difference is between Yahoo and Google's results? Well, I can't help you there but I can give you a pointer. The pointer's to Yahgoohoogle, a site...Read the rest of entry "Compare Yahoo and Google Results " here. April 10, 2005Make Your Own Google Maps MashupsBig hat tip to Metafilter for this pointer to Engadget and their instructions to make your own Google Maps mashups. You'll have to do some stuff in Firefox and you'll...Read the rest of entry "Make Your Own Google Maps Mashups" here. April 09, 2005Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My Craigslist!How cool is THIS? Some very clever person has just done a mashup of Google Maps and Craigslist rental listings. You can check it out at http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/ . You can...Read the rest of entry "Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My Craigslist! " here. April 08, 2005A Blog of Interesting Google Maps PicturesAs you've probably heard, Google Maps has integrated satellite pictures into their Google Maps Web site. Do a Google Maps search and then click on the "Satellite" link in the...Read the rest of entry "A Blog of Interesting Google Maps Pictures" here. Google Integrating Stock Quote Information Into Search ResultsGoogle has long had pointers to stock information in its search results. However it's now integrating stock quotes directly at the top of their search results -- you won't have...Read the rest of entry "Google Integrating Stock Quote Information Into Search Results" here. Google Now Offering Q&A ServiceHat tip to Garyster to the pointer about Google's new Q&A service. (Google's 'blog entry on it is at google.com/googleblog/2005/04/just-facts-fast.html .) It looks like a ready-reference type service where they...Read the rest of entry "Google Now Offering Q&A Service" here. April 05, 2005Google Labs: New Google Ride FinderGoogle is offering a new "Ride Finder" feature in Google Labs, but it doesn't support Opera. Time to fire up Firefox. Okay. The Ride Finder's at http://labs.google.com/ridefinder . If...Read the rest of entry "Google Labs: New Google Ride Finder" here. Google Blogoscoped Creates Auto-Linker ToolGoogle Blogoscoped has created an auto-linker tool that, ironically enough, works with the Yahoo API (it also works with Google, as you can see from a pull down menu at...Read the rest of entry "Google Blogoscoped Creates Auto-Linker Tool" here. March 29, 2005Google Acquires UrchinThe AP is announcing this morning that Google has acquired Urchin Software. Urchin, as you may know, makes software for Web traffic analysis. Blake mentioned it in his CiL speech...March 16, 2005Google Announces Google Local Business CenterGoogle has announced the Google Local Business Center, which is a tool for businesses to add or update their listings in Google Local. I was wondering when/if they'd offer something...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Google Local Business Center" here. March 15, 2005What is Google X?Can the non-Mac people get to the new Google Labs experiment, Google X, at http://labs.google.com/googlex/? It looks like a regular Google page except that there's a Mac OS X-like "dock"...March 10, 2005Customizing the Google News DisplayGoogle's just added a new feature to its news page that allows you to customize the layout. Check out the page at http://news.google.com/ , over on the right. As you...Read the rest of entry "Customizing the Google News Display " here. March 09, 2005March 07, 2005Some Updates for Google DesktopA few things going on with Google Desktop. First of all if you look at Google Labs ( http://labs.google.com ) you'll note that Google Desktop has now "graduated" from the...Read the rest of entry "Some Updates for Google Desktop " here. March 05, 2005Google's Got a Weather SyntaxGoogle's got a new weather syntax, as they mention on the Google blog. Just type the keyword weather and a location (a zip code or a city and state) and...Read the rest of entry "Google's Got a Weather Syntax" here. March 03, 2005Google Announces Upgrades to Google LocalGoogle Local ( http://local.google.com ) is now offering reviews of sites integrated in with their Google search results along with additional information about the businesses. The information added now includes...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Upgrades to Google Local " here. February 24, 2005Google Maps Walking TourJon Udell has an uber-nifty walking tour using Google Maps. Be sure to catch the screencast of the walking tour, and his pointer to the guy who figured this out....Google Maps Expands SupportGoogle Maps now supports Safari and Opera, according to the Google 'blog. Good!...February 23, 2005Google Adds Movie Special SyntaxGoogle keeps it going with the specialty syntax with a new offering: movie information....Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Movie Special Syntax " here. February 18, 2005New Google India ZeitgeistThere's a new Google India Zeitgeist. Tsunami is the number one search. (Actually it's the number one search for several countries.)...February 16, 2005Google Updates Its ToolbarGoogle has released a new beta version of its toolbar with some new features. The new toolbar is currently available at http://toolbar.google.com/T3 ; unfortunately it's still only available for Internet...February 15, 2005Train Schedules Through Google FranceRC sent me a note with the interesting information that if you go to Google France and search for the word train and two cities (or the word horaire and...Read the rest of entry "Train Schedules Through Google France" here. Google Hack Honeypot 1.0 ReleasedSigh. The whole idea behind the Hacks series, as I understand it, was to reclaim the word. Hacks are supposed to be quick, nonofficial ways of getting around problems and...Read the rest of entry "Google Hack Honeypot 1.0 Released" here. February 14, 2005Google Redefines BetaGoogle is redefining the idea of beta, as this article from CNET notes. "Google co-founder Larry Page on Wednesday told investors that the beta, or test, stage for its products...February 11, 2005Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search?Google Maps is really lovely! I'm kinda surprised that if you enter an address in Google you're still getting linked to Yahoo Maps and MapQuest: Huh?...Read the rest of entry "Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search? " here. February 09, 2005Mark Jen Fired From GoogleWas Google employee Mark Jen dooced by Google? It appears he was fired, but it's not clear why. At any rate he's not at Google any more. For those of...February 08, 2005Google Announces Google MapsLate last night? Early this morning? Anyway, Google has recently added something to Google labs ( http://labs.google.com ) -- Google Maps....Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Google Maps " here. Google Updates Its Image SearchGoogle has updated its image search ( http://images.google.com ) in two ways....Read the rest of entry "Google Updates Its Image Search " here. February 07, 2005Google Makes Buckets of Money, I Get NervousLet me start this little writeup with the observation that I don't own any Google stock, I don't want any Google stock, yadda yadda yadda, gabba gabba hey....Read the rest of entry "Google Makes Buckets of Money, I Get Nervous " here. February 03, 2005Google AdWords APII thought I had covered this before, but I hadn't. Yes, Google is now offering an AdWords API, for real, at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/ . The API uses SOAP and WSDL... sound...Google the Domain RegistrarBetaNews has a quick story about Google becoming a domain registrar. Weird, weird, weird. Though I guess not that surprising. When I think about Google, and then about the services...Instructions for Institutions on Google CrawlingPeter Suber has a new page up at his Web site, "How to facilitate Google crawling: Notes for open-access repository maintainers." It's a shortish but useful list of points and...Read the rest of entry "Instructions for Institutions on Google Crawling" here. February 01, 2005Stupid Google Cache HackWhen I was trying to go back and see if I had any proof about the 101K cache issue (see http://www.researchbuzz.org/has_google_dropped_their_101k_cache_limit_.shtml for details) I found that I still had the...January 31, 2005Has Google Dropped Their 101K Cache Limit?First Google got rid of their 10-word query limit (it's now 32 words, see www.researchbuzz.org/what_happened_to_googles_tenword_query_limit.shtml for details) and now it appears to me that they're indexing more of an HTML...Read the rest of entry "Has Google Dropped Their 101K Cache Limit? " here. Blog for the Google Adwords APINelson Minar and Josh McFarland have started a Weblog for the Google Adwords API. It's available at http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/ but unfortunately there's only one entry at the moment. Sigh ... another...Read the rest of entry "Blog for the Google Adwords API " here. 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. More Google Domain Name RegsGary Price continues to monitor domain name registrations that contain the word Google. And now there are some appearing that contain the word Yahoo. Can GigablastFight be far behind? http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/google_names_3.html....June 16, 2004Recovering Your Weblogs.com Site Using Google -- A Couple Extra SuggestionsActually these will work when you need to recover old sites which have been indexed in Google, if your host has died or some horror befell your data, etc. Building...June 10, 2004Interview with Google's Matt CuttsBBC interview with Google's Matt Cutts. [snip] Google used to update its web index every month which, because it caused results to jump around a little, was dubbed the Google...Read the rest of entry "Interview with Google's Matt Cutts" here. Interview With Google's Craig SilversteinCNet has an interview with Craig Silverstein. . He's 31. 31. I have never felt so decrepit....Read the rest of entry "Interview With Google's Craig Silverstein" here. Tracking Google BombsPhilipp Lenssen is tracking the status of several attempted Googlebombs at http://blog.outer-court.com/googlebomb/. The earliest one is from April 2001....June 06, 2004An SEO Contest Aimed at GoogleSearch Engine Optimization experts are competing to see who can optimize their pages best to rank highest in a search for a nonsense phrase which I'm not going to repeat...Read the rest of entry "An SEO Contest Aimed at Google" here. June 04, 2004GMail to POP3?If you have Windows and the .NET runtimes installed, you might be interested in the GMail to POP3 converter at http://jaybe.org/pgtgm/. Disclaimer #1: This is in very early release. Disclaimer...June 02, 2004More Google With More ToolbarsIf to you a day without toolbars is like a day without sunshine, check out MoreGoogle. It's an add-on for Internet Explorer and it's available at http://www.moregoogle.com/ . Unfortunately since...Read the rest of entry "More Google With More Toolbars " here. May 19, 2004Google's Offering a Local Search Option?There's a story in the NY Times ( http://tinyurl.com/3c86w ) saying that Google will soon be launching a local search option: "Google, the Web search engine, is preparing to introduce...Read the rest of entry "Google's Offering a Local Search Option? " here. May 18, 2004Google's Now Offering Image AdsGoogle's getting into the image ad business. Now on their Web site, but through their AdSense technology. Now AdSense publishers can not only put text ads on their Web sites,...Read the rest of entry "Google's Now Offering Image Ads " here. May 17, 2004Google Labs Offering Google Groups 2Google Labs has launched Google Groups 2. When you think Google Groups, you think Usenet, but Google Groups 2 is also offering the ability to create, join, and search mailing...Read the rest of entry "Google Labs Offering Google Groups 2" here. DMOZ Category for Google WeblogsThere is now an Open Directory Project category for Google Weblogs. There are five at this count. The URL is dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/News_and_Media/Weblogs/ This entry will not appear in the newsletter....Read the rest of entry "DMOZ Category for Google Weblogs" here. May 13, 2004Bookmarklet for Searching Google NewsI am always messing around making tools for Google. And when I make them (and they work) I want to share them with you. First because you're the greatest readers...Read the rest of entry "Bookmarklet for Searching Google News " here. May 12, 2004New Google Bookmarklet for Google Web AlertsI've written about bookmarklets in the past. As you may remember, they're small snippets of JavaScript that you save as a bookmark. Then you click on them and they do...Read the rest of entry "New Google Bookmarklet for Google Web Alerts" here. May 11, 2004Google Launches a WeblogAfter noting a test URL, and then noting when it went poof, I should probably note that I was out of town when the Google Weblog, now at http://www.google.com/googleblog/ ,...May 08, 2004May 04, 2004Gary Price Launches List of Google-Related DomainsGary Price has a very cute list of Google-related domains available at http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/google_names_1.htm . Note that these are not domain names necessarily REGISTERED by Google, but domain names which have...Read the rest of entry "Gary Price Launches List of Google-Related Domains" here. May 02, 2004April 30, 2004Google Finally Pops Out an IPOAfter breathless anticipation by -- let's face it -- pretty much everybody on the Internet, Google has finally announced its IPO. For fun here are some resources with which you...Read the rest of entry "Google Finally Pops Out an IPO " here. April 29, 2004Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image SearchesBoth Google and Yahoo have announced that they've added news images to their image search. At Google Images ( http://images.google.com ) you'll see news images in gray at the top...Read the rest of entry "Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image Searches " here. April 28, 2004Weblog for Gmail TipsA new Weblog for learning more about how to best use Gmail is available at http://gmailgems.blogspot.com/. Hat tip to SC. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....April 21, 2004Google to Set Up R&D Center in JapanFrom the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FD22Dh03.html: "Google Inc, the US provider of the world's leading Internet search engine service, plans to set up a research and development (R&D) center in Japan...Read the rest of entry "Google to Set Up R&D Center in Japan" here. April 20, 2004The Nature of Meaning in the Age of GoogleInteresting paper, available at http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html. Here's the abstract: "The culture of lay indexing has been created by the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as Google. Meaning is...Read the rest of entry "The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google" here. April 12, 2004Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers SearchAn article in the Chronicle of Higher Education notes that Google is teaming up with MIT and over a dozen other institutions to create a searchable archive of scholarly papers....Read the rest of entry "Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers Search " here. April 09, 2004A Collection of Google LogosIf you're all about the Google Logos, you'll love logoogle.com which has a collection of official and unofficial Google Logos. (There is a suggestive, though very blurred, logo on the...April 07, 2004Google FAQSome extremely enterprising individuals have created a FAQ based on questions that frequently appear in the google.public.support.general newsgroup. It's available at http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/ . Information is divided into several categories, including...April 05, 2004Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles?Kudos to Greg Notess, who pointed out that Google Print, that beta endeavor that's focused on indexing book content, is now indexing magazine articles. You can read his article at...Read the rest of entry "Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles? " here. April 04, 2004GMail ScreenshotsIn case you were wondering what it looks like, Fury.com has a couple GMail screenshots.. And what's up with Happy Birthday April?...April 01, 2004Gmail -- Amazing New Google Offering?ResearchBuzz has the best readers in the world. Part of having the best readers in the world is that when a big announcement comes out, I hear about it immediately...Read the rest of entry "Gmail -- Amazing New Google Offering? " here. A Few More Notes On Google's Numrange: SyntaxA very smart reader notes that Google's numrange: syntax works well for zip codes too: fashion numrange:90210-90300 . (This is the number range I mentioned earlier this week, only I'm...Read the rest of entry "A Few More Notes On Google's Numrange: Syntax" here. March 30, 2004Google Rolls Out A New LookIt's apparently spring cleaning time over at the GooglePlex, and they have a lovely new front page and search results to show for it. As you'll see on their front...March 29, 2004New Google Syntax for Number RangeYes, yes, I know Google's offering some new search services, I'll talk about those tomorrow. Today I want to talk about a new syntax Google's offering: number range. The number...Read the rest of entry "New Google Syntax for Number Range " here. March 25, 2004Google Alert Now Offers New Features, Case/Punctuation FilteringSometimes I realize just how much of a search nerd I am. When I got the announcement that Google Alert is now offering new features, including the ability to filter...Read the rest of entry "Google Alert Now Offers New Features, Case/Punctuation Filtering" here. March 17, 2004Google Now Offering a Local SearchIt's another upgrade-on-a-holiday for Google (and my, what a striking St. Pat's day logo.) Google has rolled out a local search option from its testing bed at Google Labs. You...Read the rest of entry "Google Now Offering a Local Search" here. March 03, 2004Google Offers News Alerts In Several LanguagesGoogle mentioned in their most recent newsletter that they've started making news alerts available in more languages. Now you can get them in four additional languages: French ( http://www.google.fr/newsalerts ),...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers News Alerts In Several Languages " here. February 25, 2004Google Adds Wireless Froogle SearchingGoogle Labs has announced the addition of Wireless Froogle, another product of Google Labs. If you have an WML-enabled phone you can try it out at http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html . I don't...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Wireless Froogle Searching" here. February 23, 2004Google n' Yahoo: Oh, the EYE-ronyDoes it wig anybody else out that, a few days after dumping them for their full-text Web search results, Yahoo adds the Google bot to their Yahoo directory? http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?h=c&fr=op&va=google&vp=&vo=&ve=&bbase=Search&r=all&g=7&n=20. I...Read the rest of entry "Google n' Yahoo: Oh, the EYE-rony" here. February 20, 2004The Google Gender GuesserAND the offbeat Google applications keep rolling on. Geoff's Amazing Gender Guesser uses the Google API to search Google for patterns based on a name you submit. An API key...February 19, 2004Google Adds Pages to Web Search, Doubles Image IndexGoogle announced earlier this week that they'd made some changes and upgrades to their search properties, including: Google Images -- There are now over 800 million images in their image...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Pages to Web Search, Doubles Image Index " here. February 12, 2004Soople Offers Several Different Google InterfacesOne cool thing about Google is that they have a very simple interface, which keeps three billion pages from being too intimidating. On the other hand that simple interface disguses...Read the rest of entry "Soople Offers Several Different Google Interfaces" here. February 05, 2004Interesting Google Tool: SearchGridEver wondered how various combinations of search words can change your result count? Now you can find out with an interesting Google tool called SearchGrid ( http://blog.outer-court.com/search-grid/ ). To use...Read the rest of entry "Interesting Google Tool: SearchGrid " here. January 29, 2004Google Offers Dutch Toolbar, New Interface LanguagesGoogle is now offering a Dutch version of the popup-blockin', page-highlightin', pagerank-reportin', Web-searchin' toolbar. You can download it at http://www.google.nl/intl/nl/options.html . In other Google news, Google's offering nine new interface...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Dutch Toolbar, New Interface Languages " here. January 23, 2004Google Squeak -- Site: Search Now Works by ItselfGoogleGuy confirmed in a WebmasterWorld post ( http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum78/3697.htm ) that you can now do a Google site: search by itself to get a list of which pages for that domain...Read the rest of entry "Google Squeak -- Site: Search Now Works by Itself" here. January 15, 2004A Little Update on the New Google SyntaxesA couple of updates on the new Google Syntaxes: - Area Code: Search on an area code and you'll get a link to a map of that area code. While...Read the rest of entry "A Little Update on the New Google Syntaxes" here. January 12, 2004New Google Features -- Travel and Tracking NumbersGoogle is offering a couple new search features for specific kinds of information. TRAVEL INFORMATION -- Type in the three-letter code for an airport followed by the word airport (...Read the rest of entry "New Google Features -- Travel and Tracking Numbers" here. January 09, 2004Watching Google Like a HawkCan't keep up with Google? It is tough. Watching Google Like a Hawk wants to help, but without axes to grind: its site subhead is "News & Commentary -- No...December 18, 2003What (and Why) In the World Is Google Print?Google doesn't want you to search inside the book at Amazon. They want you to search inside the book at Google! That's what they're working on, anyway -- get some...Read the rest of entry "What (and Why) In the World Is Google Print? " here. December 15, 2003Google Adds New "Search by Number" FeatureGoogle is now offering five ways to search for discrete types of classification numbers -- UPS tracking numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers, patent numbers, and FCC equipment...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds New "Search by Number" Feature" here. November 19, 2003Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRaceIt's not so much scientific as funny, but it is funny. The API application GoogleRace ( http://www.googlerace.com/ ) lets you enter a single search word or a two-word phrase and...Read the rest of entry "Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRace" here. November 17, 2003Google Announces Code Jam WinnersGoogle has announced the winners of the Code Jam 2003 contest. Jimmy Mardell from Stockholm, Sweden, won the $10,000 grand prize. He won out of a field of over 5,000...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Code Jam Winners" here. November 07, 2003Google Offers Google DeskbarIf the Google Toolbar isn't enough for you, now you can try the Google Deskbar. Like the Toolbar, it requires Internet Explorer, but unlike the Toolbar, it allows you to...November 05, 2003Google Offering Anita Borg ScholarshipIf you're a female student in the computer sciences, check this out. Google is offering two $10,000 scholarships (one undergrad, one grad) for women who are majoring or are in...Read the rest of entry "Google Offering Anita Borg Scholarship " here. October 30, 2003Google and Microsoft and Halloween StuffYes, the rumors are flying: is Microsoft going to buy Google? If there's any more buzz on this my mailbox is going to explode. There are already 500 stories matching...Read the rest of entry "Google and Microsoft and Halloween Stuff" here. October 21, 2003Google Adds Define SyntaxGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has added a new special syntax to find definitions. It's define, and unlike many search syntaxes which work just with a colon (site:google.com), define works in...October 16, 2003Google Alert Adds FeaturesGoogle Alert ( http://www.googlealert.com ) is not affiliated with Google. What it is is a free service that runs daily searches on Google and sends out e-mail alerts when new...September 30, 2003Google Adds News in SpanishRemember yesterday when I said that Google hasn't added news in Spanish yet? Well, they have now. You can reach it at http://news.google.com/news/es/es/main.html . For those of you keeping score...September 23, 2003Google Labs Offers Google Search By LocationGoogle Labs has just rolled out Google Search by Location at http://labs.google.com/location . As you might imagine, it allows you to search the Web based on location. The front page...Read the rest of entry "Google Labs Offers Google Search By Location " here. September 17, 2003Google Starting a Code JamGoogle's got a new programming contest going. Registration for the Google Code Jam ( http://www.google.com/codejam/ ) starts on October 1. Participants will be asked to solve coding problems within a...September 10, 2003Anacubis Unveils Blended Google, Amazon SearchAnacubis has launched a visual application that blends content from Amazon and Google. It's available at http://www.anacubis.com/amazondemo ; you'll need to use IE and have Java for this to work....Read the rest of entry "Anacubis Unveils Blended Google, Amazon Search " here. September 09, 2003Google Tweaks FroogleGoogle has announced some tweaks to their online product search engine Froogle ( http://froogle.google.com .) Even though the site's been upgraded, it's still in beta; keep that in mind. New...August 12, 2003Google Adds Calculator FunctionThat wacky Google. Now they're rolling out the calculators. As you can see from the explanation at http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator, you can turn an incredibly powerful search engine into a four-function calculator!...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Calculator Function" here. August 05, 2003Google Now Offering News AlertsWe now pause for me to do a happy dance. Cue the Snoopy music! All right, why am I happy dancing? Because Google is finally offering news alerts, which may...Read the rest of entry "Google Now Offering News Alerts" here. August 04, 2003Google Adds Operator to Search for SynonymsGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has just introduced a new operator to search for synonyms. You use it by adding a tilde -- it looks like ~ and is often found...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Operator to Search for Synonyms" here. July 31, 2003Google Opens Site For IndiaGoogle continues to expand their international presence with the launch this week of Google India -- http://www.google.co.in . The site is offered in Hindi, Bengali, Telegu, Marathi, and English. You...July 22, 2003Google News Now Offering Advanced SearchYay! Google News, even though it's still in beta, is now offering advanced searching with options to limit searches by date and more. The advanced search is available by choosing...Read the rest of entry "Google News Now Offering Advanced Search" here. July 14, 2003Random Google Searching With BananaslugRandom searching fans will enjoy the random weirdness culled from Google API application Bananaslug (http://www.bananaslug.com/). This application allows you to enter a search term, and then choose from a variety...Read the rest of entry "Random Google Searching With Bananaslug" here. July 07, 2003Google News Now Offering German VersionNot too long ago, I mentioned country-specific versions of Google News (http://news.google.com.) Now Google News is offering a German-language version of Google News at http://news.google.de/. All the news summaries and...Read the rest of entry "Google News Now Offering German Version" here. June 25, 2003Google Launches Beta 2.0 ToolbarGoogle's toolbar is going to beta 2.0, as you can see from the beta-index of their toolbar site at http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php. If you're using at least Windows and Internet Explorer 5.0...Read the rest of entry "Google Launches Beta 2.0 Toolbar" here. June 18, 2003Google Goofin' -- Searching for "The"It used to be a mantra. The sky is blue, the grass is green, and you can't search for "the" on Google because it's a stopword. Well, Google's goofin' on...Read the rest of entry "Google Goofin' -- Searching for "The"" here. May 29, 2003Google Wants to Puzzle You... but in a good way. Google has announced the Google US Puzzle Championship at http://www.google.com/puzzles/. This is about intellectual-type brain puzzles not search puzzles. The US Puzzle Championship is...March 11, 2003Searching for Just Google AdsMark Pilgram from Dive Into Mark has figured out ( http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/27/in_brief_27_feb_2003.html ) how to search just Google's ads for keywords. Handy when you're trying to figure out what's being...Read the rest of entry "Searching for Just Google Ads" here. March 10, 2003Google News: Source SyntaxGoogle News has a special syntax that it doesn't share with the Google Web search. It's called source: and it works like this: source:[name of source] So if you...February 20, 2003Get Information on Newly Indexed Pages From GooglertEvery day someone has fun with the Google API. The latest evidence is the Google search alert Googlert, at http://www.googlert.com/ . This service can be set up to run...Read the rest of entry "Get Information on Newly Indexed Pages From Googlert" here. February 03, 2003Check Your Rank in GoogleWhy care about where Google ranks your page? If you're selling something, you probably do. You might also have some concerns about where your competitors are ending up, or...January 20, 2003Take A Little Trip With GoogleGoogle's now offering a Google Tour! The Google Tour, at http://www.google.com/tour/services/index.html , gives visitors new to Google a way to check out Google's many offerings through a series of...Read the rest of entry "Take A Little Trip With Google" here. January 01, 2003Google Googling an IPO?Forbes magazine says in its Rich Karlgaard column of 1/6/2003 that "The search site Google is queued up for a first-quarter IPO off of surprisingly virile numbers--some $300 million in...December 23, 2002Google Goes To Australia, Starts New Doodle SeriesGoogle's opened up the Australian version of their search site at http://www.google.com.au/ . As with the other country-specific Google sites, the search includes the option to search Australian Web sites...Read the rest of entry "Google Goes To Australia, Starts New Doodle Series" here. December 12, 2002Google Goes FroogleJust in time for Christmas, Google's created a shopping directory. Froogle ( http://froogle.google.com/froogle ) is in beta. The site is set up like your standard searchable subject index. Choose a...December 11, 2002Google Adds New Experiments to Google LabsYesterday, Google Labs ( http://labs.google.com ) added two new experiments to their site: Google WebQuotes and Google Viewer. Google Webquotes ( http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes ) is an interesting application. You run a...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds New Experiments to Google Labs" here. December 07, 2002Google Adds Four New DomainsGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has added four new domains to its collection. The new domains are: Google Finland -- http://www.google.fi Google Greece -- http://www.google.com.gr Google Singapore -- http://www.google.com.sg Google United...November 07, 2002Google Adds Two Country-Specific DomainsGoogle's added two country-specific domains: Poland ( http://www.google.pl ) and Thailand ( http://www.google.co.th/ ). That brings the number of country-specific domains that Google offers to 36....Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Two Country-Specific Domains" here. November 06, 2002Google Turns the Corner to Three Billion PagesA hundred years ago when I was young, I boggled at Google's claim of a billion pages. But now I will be blasé. Google is now claiming an index of...Read the rest of entry "Google Turns the Corner to Three Billion Pages" here. October 25, 2002Google Cooking Actually Works NowSorry about the problems that Google Cooking was having today -- it's at http://www.buzz toolbox.com/google/goocookin.shtml if you missed Wednesday's writeup. My Web host was having server issues that have apparently...Read the rest of entry "Google Cooking Actually Works Now" here. October 23, 2002Cooking With GoogleLast summer, Judy Hourihan came up with the idea of Google cooking ( http://judy.hour ihan.com/2002_09_01_archive.html ) -- entering a couple of ingredients into Google and seeing what recipes you got...October 02, 2002Google Poetry And BuzzToolbox.comContinuing with the fun Google applications is GooPoetry at http://www.buzz toolbox.com/google/goopoetry.shtml . GooPoetry lets you enter a query (any query you'd use with regular Google, with the exception of the...Read the rest of entry "Google Poetry And BuzzToolbox.com" here. September 23, 2002Google Expands News ServiceThough the banner graphic indicates that it's still in beta, Google News has done some real expanding. You can see the new version at http://news.google.com The front page looks a...September 16, 2002Specifying Depth of Results in GoogleGoogle's advanced search options do not at the moment allow you to specify the depth of your search results. So I wrote a Google API program that does do it....Read the rest of entry "Specifying Depth of Results in Google" here. September 06, 2002Google Goes to IrelandGoogle's opened a country-specific domain for Ireland. http://www.google.ie gives you the option of searching pages from the entire Web or for pages from Ireland only. The interface is also available...August 27, 2002August 12, 2002August 10, 2002Google Toolbar Has Security IssuesRead the rest of entry "Google Toolbar Has Security Issues" here. August 07, 2002Google Teaming Up With the NY TimesRead the rest of entry "Google Teaming Up With the NY Times" here. July 16, 2002Google and Yahoo Extend Until SeptemberRead the rest of entry "Google and Yahoo Extend Until September" here. July 08, 2002July 03, 2002GooFresh -- Query Recent Additions to GoogleRead the rest of entry "GooFresh -- Query Recent Additions to Google" here. June 03, 2002Google Announces Contest WinnersGoogle has announced the winners of the 2002 Google Programming Contest. The winner is Daniel Egnor of New York. He used geographic data to convert street addresses on Web pages...Read the rest of entry "Google Announces Contest Winners" here. May 31, 2002Google Adds Search Engine to Google AnswersIf you're wondering about all those questions being asked at Google answers, now you can search 'em at http://answers.google.com . The bottom of the Google Answers page has a search...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Search Engine to Google Answers" here. Google Adds Search Engine to Google AnswersIf you're wondering about all those questions being asked at Google answers, now you can search 'em at http://answers.google.com . The bottom of the Google Answers page has a search...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Search Engine to Google Answers" here. May 23, 2002Google Updates ToolbarGoogle has released version 1.1.56 of their toolbar with a couple of new features. You can download it for Internet Explorer at http://toolbar.google.com/ . You won't see the features immediately...May 20, 2002Google and Dilbert?Okay, this is weird. Google and Dilbert have teamed up for a five day Google doodle -- details at http://www.google.com/dilbert.html . For five days the Google logo will be Dilbertesque,...May 06, 2002Google Daterange: Syntax -- DuhAs longtime readers know, sometimes I can be a bit thick. On these occasions, you have to speak slowly and use short words, otherwise I get wildly confused and type...Read the rest of entry "Google Daterange: Syntax -- Duh" here. April 25, 2002More Google API FunI've heard about some more Google API-inspired programs. These are live examples which give you the option to use your own key. If you have your own key I encourage...April 24, 2002Google Updates News SearchGoogle has updated their news search ( http://news.google.com ) slightly. First of all the search results page for news search allows you to sort by date or relevance (the link...April 23, 2002Extended Article on Google AnswersAs promised, there's an extended article on Google answers at http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020422-3.htm . Gary Price also has several answers on his blog (look under April 18): http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_01_resourceshelf_archive.html...Read the rest of entry "Extended Article on Google Answers" here. April 19, 2002Google Offers Answers -- For A PriceGoogle has launched a beta version of Google Answers at https://answers.google.com/ . For between $4 and $50 (you set the price) you can ask a question and someone from Google's...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Answers -- For A Price" here. April 16, 2002Google Revamps Their StopwordsI know sometimes you lie awake at night and try to figure out Google's stopwords. You start with the, assuming it's a stopword, while your way to www and com,...Read the rest of entry "Google Revamps Their Stopwords" here. April 15, 2002Google Accounts and Spell CheckSpeaking of Google, in order to participate in this program you have to register for a Google Account. Oh ho ho, what is a Google Account? You can see it...Read the rest of entry "Google Accounts and Spell Check" here. Google Creates API ProgramGoogle's now offering an API program at http://www.google.com/apis/ . This program allows developers to query Google from within their own programs. This program is in beta and currently restricts a...April 01, 2002Google's April Fool -- PigeonRankEver wondered how Google's page ranking REALLY works? Google picks April 1st to explain it -- it's PigeonRank™! http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html . Google has done some cool April Fool's in the past,...Read the rest of entry "Google's April Fool -- PigeonRank" here. March 14, 2002Google Allows Special Syntax MixingOne of my complaints about Google for the last several whatevers is how limited the special syntaxes are. In the past you could not "mix" special syntaxes -- you couldn't...Read the rest of entry "Google Allows Special Syntax Mixing" here. March 13, 2002Google Offers Beta News SearchGoogle's finally launched a news search. It's in beta at http://news.google.com/ . This news search scrapes 100 sources about once an hour, and allows you to search through almost seven...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Beta News Search" here. March 11, 2002Google Launches Microsoft Specialized SearchGoogle has launched a Microsoft-specialized search at http://www.google.com/microsoft.html . Dig that logo, it looks like Google went to Teletubby land. It doesn't appear to be as specialized as it could...Read the rest of entry "Google Launches Microsoft Specialized Search" here. January 31, 2002Google Launches Canadian Search EngineGoogle has launched http://www.google.ca, a version of Google aimed at Canadian content. The site looks much like the regular Google, but has options to search for Canadian Web pages only,...Read the rest of entry "Google Launches Canadian Search Engine" here. Google Adds New Languages, Spanish Translation TechGoogle's added several new languages to their search engine interface as a result of their "Google in Your Language" program. You can access the new language settings at http://www.google.com/preferences. The...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds New Languages, Spanish Translation Tech" here. Google Directory Out of Beta?The Google Directory was officially launched yesterday and is apparently out of beta -- at least the beta graphic is gone from http://directory.google.com/ .. As I said a few days...Read the rest of entry "Google Directory Out of Beta?" here. December 17, 2001Google Offers Selection of CatalogsGoogle is offering both a catalog search and a subject index of catalogs at http://catalogs.google.com. (It's in beta.) Catalogs include Dell, LL Bean, PC Connection, Harry & David, Ikea, etc....Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Selection of Catalogs" here. December 12, 2001Google Expands Every WhichawayGoogle today announced the expansion of their image search, Web search, and Usenet search. Web Search -- Google's Web search now offers more than 2 billion documents, 25 of which...Read the rest of entry "Google Expands Every Whichaway" here. December 06, 2001Tool Searches Many Google Servers at Once(Thanks to TVC for the alert about this one.) According to http://fergusons.dk/tools/google.php, Google provides search results from several different servers, www, www1, www2, and www3. A tool available at the...Read the rest of entry "Tool Searches Many Google Servers at Once" here. November 29, 2001Google Hoses One of My Favorite Search Tricks, Offers Feedback OptionOne of my favorite Google tricks is -- WAS -- using a stopword as a wildcard in a phrase. Since Google doesn't support wildcards it was the only way to...Read the rest of entry "Google Hoses One of My Favorite Search Tricks, Offers Feedback Option" here. October 03, 2001Google Gets All TabbyGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has updated their interface with a set of tabs. These tabs give you easier access to search results from all Google's properties, including Web search, image...May 21, 2001Google Now Offers Posting In Google GroupsGoogle has begun offering posting options in its Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) site. All Usenet messages that are less than one month old will have the following message at the bottom:...Read the rest of entry "Google Now Offers Posting In Google Groups" here. April 27, 2001Google EXPANDS THEIR ARCHIVES! Yay!Good news Usenet nuts! Google announced today that the Usenet archives are back. You can now search back to May 1995. You can even search by date at http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search....Read the rest of entry "Google EXPANDS THEIR ARCHIVES! Yay!" here. April 09, 2001Google Slips Date for Group FeaturesIt'll be a little later than expected for posting access through Google Groups (http://groups.google.com). Both that feature, and access to the full five years' worth of postings originally in the...Read the rest of entry "Google Slips Date for Group Features" here. March 30, 2001Google Offers Translation, Adds New Interface LanguagesGoogle ( http://www.google.com/ ) has started offering machine translation of their search results. (Machine translation just means that the translation is done automatically, with a computer. Machine translation is nowhere...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Translation, Adds New Interface Languages" here. March 22, 2001Google Launches PhoneBookGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) now offers a phone number lookup via their search engine. Enter someone's name and state (abbreviation), and you'll get phone number listings if they're available. Before...March 20, 2001Google News: Interface Translation, Voice Search, Bork Bork BorkGoogle bits... Google's preference page includes "interface languages," allowing you to choose in which language you want to view the Google interface. New interface language options include Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan,...Read the rest of entry "Google News: Interface Translation, Voice Search, Bork Bork Bork" here. March 15, 2001Google Adds Date SearchingGoogle has finally added date searching to their Usenet archives. (Doogle? Deja Goo? Google Vu?) From the advanced search page at http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , you can choose from two dropdown menus...March 08, 2001Google Groups Watch -- Update ScheduleI heard from someone over at Google about the update plans for Google Groups. At this moment in time the update schedule looks like this: - Date search: going live...Read the rest of entry "Google Groups Watch -- Update Schedule" here. Yahoo: Koogle Out As CEO, Earnings WarningI didn't report on this last night because I was surprised that what on its face looked like rather mild news caused a stock halt. I mean, companies warn and...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo: Koogle Out As CEO, Earnings Warning" here. February 26, 2001Shut Up About Google Already!I'm sorry. One more thing and I'll shut up about Google for a day. Maybe. Okay, first off, now you can browse groups off the front page at http://groups.google.com/ ....Read the rest of entry "Shut Up About Google Already!" here. February 22, 2001Google Around the WorldSharp-eyed reader GS pointed out that http://www.google.co.uk is now live. This version of Google allows you to search only pages from the UK or the entire Web. There's also http://www.google.de...February 21, 2001Google Groups Watch -- New FunctionalityI was completely amazed at the response to Google's purchase of Deja -- a lot of folks are very angry that the search interface was as limited as it was...Read the rest of entry "Google Groups Watch -- New Functionality" here. February 12, 2001Monday Morning Head Explosion: Google Buys Deja.comEven though I speculated on this back in October ("Deja News Search Engine for Sale: News and Irresponsible Speculation,") I'm still stunned to hear that Google has purchased Deja.com, including,...Read the rest of entry "Monday Morning Head Explosion: Google Buys Deja.com " here. January 19, 2001Google's Change of Ad-ittude(I know I said I wouldn't cover so much business stuff, but no one else has mentioned this that I know of.) You may have noticed the product of Google's...December 06, 2000Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL SyntaxSo Google last week sent out this big braggy press release about how everyone adores them. They skipped the REAL news: Google now partially supports title and URL special syntaxes....Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL Syntax" here. August 28, 2000Google Adds Spelling SuggestionsGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has added a new search feature and/or syntax to their search engine. They now do spell checking with their searches. For example, do a search for...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Spelling Suggestions" here. July 31, 2000Google Adds Dictionary Definitions, Moves Result CountMissed this one. If you do a search on a term for which Google has a definition, it'll provide a link to the definition at the top of the results...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds Dictionary Definitions, Moves Result Count" here. July 26, 2000Meanwhile, Back at the Google Ranch (Advanced Search Interface)Meanwhile, Google ( http://www.google.com ) refuses to stand still. Their home page is getting even more minimalist, with a logo in the center of the page and the "About Google"...Read the rest of entry "Meanwhile, Back at the Google Ranch (Advanced Search Interface)" here. July 12, 2000The Google/Yahoo Mystery: Partially ClearedReaders have been sending in a variety of conjecture about the Yahoo/Google mystery -- why a Yahoo/Google search provides fewer results than a search straight from Google.com. Some users asserted...Read the rest of entry "The Google/Yahoo Mystery: Partially Cleared" here. June 26, 2000Couple of Google BitsGoogle has a couple of "special search engines" you might have missed. One is for BSD at http://www.google.com/bsd and one is for Macintosh at http://www.google.com/mac.html. The Macintosh special search page...May 16, 2000Google Keeps Sneaking In New FeaturesGoogle has implemented a couple cool things you might want to know about. First is a filtering system; learn more about it at http://www.google.com/safesearch_help.html. It appears from reading this page...Read the rest of entry "Google Keeps Sneaking In New Features" here. Instantly Invoke Old Pages With Google Cache SyntaxWant to look at an old version of a page? Want to know the last time Google crawled a page? You can invoke a cache of a page in Google's...Read the rest of entry "Instantly Invoke Old Pages With Google Cache Syntax" here. May 12, 2000Google Offers Tribute to MomGoogle has a mother's day tribune, complete with many pictures of Mom, at http://www.google.com/moms/index.html. Now see, this is one of the reasons I like Google -- because they have a...May 03, 2000And Speaking of Google and AltaVista...AltaVista, who I was going to rip on for putting the dmoz directory front and center on their site (not that there's anything wrong with the dmoz directory. Quite the...Read the rest of entry "And Speaking of Google and AltaVista..." here. April 22, 2000Google Adds University SearchGoogle, the search engine I just can't shut up about, has added university searching to its offerings at http://www.google.com/universities.html .. You'll find a list of universities which isn't even CLOSE...Read the rest of entry "Google Adds University Search" here. April 15, 2000Google's Other Language Search Enters BetaGoogle ( http://www.google.com/ ) has quietly launched a beta-test of multiple language searching. After entering your search query, use the pull-down menu to the right of the search form to...Read the rest of entry "Google's Other Language Search Enters Beta" here. March 26, 2000Google Promises Family Filter, International VersionsI know the news lately has been rather Googly; but when this much stuff is going on you gotta talk about it. In Yesterday's Google Friends newsletter (sign up yourself...Read the rest of entry "Google Promises Family Filter, International Versions" here. March 17, 2000Hey! A Google Special Syntax I Knew Nothing About!Woo! Reader MJ clued me into the site: syntax on Google, which works like the host: syntax on AltaVista, looks like. Try the query google site:researchbuzz.com And you'll get results...Read the rest of entry "Hey! A Google Special Syntax I Knew Nothing About!" here. March 14, 2000Yes, Google Has A Dmoz-Based DirectoryYes, there is a searchable subject index based on the dmoz.org directory at http://directory.google .com/ . It is in beta, and it has been rearranged according to the Google page-ranking...Read the rest of entry "Yes, Google Has A Dmoz-Based Directory" here. March 10, 2000Google's Unconquerable StopwordReader JH wrote in with a story about using the + sign to force Google ( http://www.google.com ) to search for stopwords. She noted that a couple of attempts to...Read the rest of entry "Google's Unconquerable Stopword" here. March 01, 2000Google Offers Search ButtonsSearch engine Google ( http://www.google.com ) announced new browser buttons yesterday. The Google Search button allows you to highlight any word on any Web page and click the button for...February 12, 2000Google cache infoGoogle ( http://www.google.com ) has a new notice on their cached pages. I've always wondered how, with all this controversy about even LINKING to another page, they manage to get...January 27, 2000Google at StanfordDid you know Google has a specialty search for Stanford University? http://www.google.com/univ/stanford...Who's heard of Google?Smart Computing has an interesting list of what they consider to be the best little-known search tools out there. Includes stuff like Oingo and Google. (Google is little-known?) (another messy...November 27, 1999Virgin Going with GoogleVirgin is going to use Google to power Virgin.net -- replacing Excite, which is currently being used: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/12916.html...Berkeley has Google Tutorial SiteBerkeley has an extensive tutorial on using Google: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Google.html...Read the rest of entry "Berkeley has Google Tutorial Site" here. November 22, 1999 |
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