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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, 2005 | ||||
