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May 20, 2006Google Blog Search Adds Date Searching
Th' Google people have announced that Google's blog search (http://blogsearch.google.com/.) Before I get into this and a couple of other things I must note that even though Google has recognized that date search is very very important when searching blogs,...
First Look: Google Notebook
It was announced last week, and now it's available. The Google blog notes that Google Notebook is now live and kickin' at http://www.google.com/notebook. You'll need a Google account to use it, however. Once you're logged in, Google will take you...
May 10, 2006First Look: Google Trends
Are you familiar with the Google Zeitgeist? It's a regularly-updated part of the Google site that shows you trends that are becoming more and less popular, commentary, etc. There's a US version and other versions around the world. Google Trends...
Much Google News; Many Writeups Pending
Many of you have probably already plumped to the huge Google press release that went out a while ago. There's way too much to cover in just one entry so keep an eye out tonight for a series of reviews,...
Continue reading "Much Google News; Many Writeups Pending" » May 07, 2006Speaking of Google Clustering: Looking at Lists of Google Suggestions
... Eric Giguere has put a tool together that allows you to explore Google's "Suggestions" feature... where you begin typing in a search query and Google provides you with a number of suggested searches. With his tool, however (available at...
Continue reading "Speaking of Google Clustering: Looking at Lists of Google Suggestions" » May 06, 2006Two New Google Operators and Limited Google Clustering
A gentleman in India has blogged about what appears to be an undocumented Google special syntax called type.. I goofed around with it a little bit and while it's interesting, it may be for the end user the equivalent of...
Continue reading "Two New Google Operators and Limited Google Clustering" » April 29, 2006Google News With A Suggestive Twist
Lucky us! Googler Jon McAlister has spent some of his Google free time working on a Google Suggest solution for Google News, and now we can try it out at http://news.google.com/news?complete=1. Currently Google News Suggest is for English only. It...
Google Scholar Enhancement -- Recent Articles
Google has mentioned on their blog an enhancement to its Google Scholar service, which itself is available at http://scholar.google.com/. Do a search. I'll do one for Chris Sherman. If you look at the right side of the results page...
Continue reading "Google Scholar Enhancement -- Recent Articles" » April 26, 2006Google Trying On Some New Page Designs
Google's mentioned on their official blog that they are testing some changes to the Google search results. The new features mentioned and shown (bigger screenshots! Bigger screenshots!) include the ability to narrow down results, a relevancy-by-property link list on the...
April 19, 2006Google Launches Google Calendar
After lots of rumors and the usual coyness on Google's part, Google has finally released Google Calendar, which is now available at http://www.google.com/calendar. You will need a Google account to use it, and of course it's in beta, because it's...
April 09, 2006Google Releases V.2 of Its Firefox Toolbar
Google has announced version 2 of its Firefox toolbar. It's in beta, of course. You can download it at http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html. New features include an enhanced search box (search and spelling suggestions as well as searching from your own history), once-click...
Continue reading "Google Releases V.2 of Its Firefox Toolbar" » April 04, 2006Google's Got a New Related Links Feature
Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for this pointer to a new feature from Google: the ability to pull a related links list from Google into your pages along with pointers to relevant news, etc. Check it out: http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/index.html. The service is...
Continue reading "Google's Got a New Related Links Feature" » January 10, 2006What Google's Got Up Its Google Video Sleeve
After lots of media speculation and general muttering, Google finally announced their Google Video store. Since Google has mentioned ever since last April that there could be fees involved with Google Video, nobody should be too surprised. Google video remains...
Continue reading "What Google's Got Up Its Google Video Sleeve" » December 17, 2005Google Adds Music Search Options
Google has added new options for searching for music on their site. It's not really a syntax, more of a search shortcut. Unfortunately its music knowledge is not as eclectic as I am and I bamboozled it more than once....
November 21, 2005Google Print is Now Google Book Search
Google has announced a name change from Google Print into Google Book Search. It's available at http://books.google.com/. As they say in their blog, "When we launched Google Print, our goal was to make it easier for users to discover books....
November 16, 2005Now Google Base Really Do All Belong To Us
After a lot of speculation and sites that went up and down, Google has announced that they've released their Google Base service. The announcement's at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/first-base.html and the service itself is at http://base.google.com . From the first page of the...
Continue reading "Now Google Base Really Do All Belong To Us" » November 14, 2005Google Makes Web Analytics Product Free -- Pretty Much
Earlier this year Google bought Urchin Software, which offered Web analytics. This week they announced that they are making the service free. Well, mostly free. Free if you're getting less than five million page views a month (this is the...
Continue reading "Google Makes Web Analytics Product Free -- Pretty Much" » November 06, 2005Google Allowing for Copyright Filtering in Advanced Search
Google's advanced search page, at http://www.google.com/advanced_search, now allows for filtering by materials which allow some forms of re-use and materials which can be freely modified, adapted, and built upon. I did a search for "Randy Cassingham", who's the guy behind...
Continue reading "Google Allowing for Copyright Filtering in Advanced Search" » November 04, 2005Something at Google Actually Leaves Beta
But I kid Google. Google has announced on their blog that their search tool, Google Desktop, has left beta. Among the new features are a sidebar for Google Maps and a whole host of new third-party plug-ins, including ones that...
Continue reading "Something at Google Actually Leaves Beta" » November 03, 2005Google Announces Large Influx of Public Domain Works into Google Print
Google has announced in their blog that they've added a bunch of public domain books to their Google Print project. How many? "A number." Oh, all right, if you're going to be that way about it... Google Print's home is...
Continue reading "Google Announces Large Influx of Public Domain Works into Google Print" » November 01, 2005Google Blogs Everywhere!
Google is a monster about launching official blogs. They've got over half-a-dozen and seem to be launching more constantly! Let's see what we're up to so far: Official Google Blog -- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ Adwords API -- http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/ Blogger -- http://buzz.blogger.com/ Google...
October 30, 2005Google Adds Interviews to Its TV Archive
Google announced in their blog that they've added a bunch of interviews from the Archive of American Television -- over 450, as a matter of fact. You can get to 'em at http://video.google.com/. There are 501 results here, with results...
Continue reading "Google Adds Interviews to Its TV Archive" » October 25, 2005Bibliography for Google Print Controversy
DigitalKoans has a list of articles about the Google Print controvery. The articles start at the Association of American Publishers, with "Google Library Project Raises Serious Questions for Publishers and Authors," and ends with The New York Times, "Google Opens...
Continue reading "Bibliography for Google Print Controversy" » All Your Google Base Etc Etc Etc
My my my, didn't my mailbox has something to get filled up with today besides the usual round of home loan confirmations and >cough cough cough cough My first heads-up came from -- The Wall Street Journal? If the Wall...
October 16, 2005Google Librarian Center
Tip o' the nib to the nice people at the TVC alert for the pointer to the Google Librarian Center at http://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html . From the page: "Librarians and Google share a mission: to organize the world's information and make it...
October 15, 2005Get More Than 10 Results In Google News RSS Feeds
Someone on Webmaster World was asking how to get more than 10 results with Google News' RSS Feeds. Here's how: 1) Run the search on Google News. 2) Add &num=100 to the end of the search results URL. 3) Refresh...
Continue reading "Get More Than 10 Results In Google News RSS Feeds" » October 11, 2005Google Reader for RSS Feeds
Google's going gaga for RSS feeds now, it seems. From barely flirting with them last summer they've gone straight into providing them directly and now offering a reader for them. The Google Reader's available at http://www.google.com/reader/ ; you'll need to...
October 04, 2005Google Search Tips Jam
Philipp Lenssen, whose name I believe I spelled right on the first try, Has an article about Google Syntax and easter eggs at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-09-29-n85.html . Let me jam on what he wrote a little bit. Please go and read his...
September 27, 2005Google Celebrates 7, Where Did the 8 Go?
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear GOO-GLE, happy birthday to you. You're seven years old, in 14 more years you can have a beer, and won't we start getting weird search results then! But while...
Continue reading "Google Celebrates 7, Where Did the 8 Go?" » September 25, 2005A Collection for 40+ GMail Tips
Interested in using GMail better? Jim Barr has a collection of over 40 quick GMail tips at http://gmailtips.com/. A first glance shows some good stuff, but I'm going to have to do some serious reading....
September 14, 2005Google Launches a Blog Search
Google's now on the blog search bandwagon with Google Blog Search at http://google.com/blogsearch . There are good things about it and bad things....
Google Gets All Neener-Neener-Neener On Microsoft
Google has an entry in their blog discussing the fact that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can get working for them despite some legal action from Microsoft. I'm surprised about two things: first that Google's 'blog is staying so busy, and second...
Continue reading "Google Gets All Neener-Neener-Neener On Microsoft" » September 07, 2005Unsafe Searching on Google
You know Google has a SafeSearch, right? It's a search that filters content so that you don't get icky stuff in your search results. It doesn't always work, but that's the intention. Now there's Google UnSafeSearch, at http://strix.org.uk/misc/adult.google/index.php . This...
Google Destroying All Non-Indexable Information
Satirical newspaper The Onion has an awesome story about how Google is planning to destroy all information it can't index. "The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which...
Continue reading "Google Destroying All Non-Indexable Information" » August 25, 2005Negative-Only Searches in Google
I 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 slap fight?) but it's possible. Just omit a word from...
August 21, 2005Getting Random Google Videos
Google 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 it for a different set. As long as you're looking...
August 20, 2005Google Launches Adsense Blog
Those 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, with pointers to other AdSense resources....
August 19, 2005Google In 116 Languages
Google 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 Mobile
The 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 supports WAP 1.2. Additional information and pointers available at http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html...
Continue reading "Google Announces Enhanced Froogle Mobile" » August 11, 2005Google Tweaks Their Blank-Matching
While 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 for "three * mice", find "three red mice," "three blue...
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 it'll run a test on those links to see if...
Speaking of Google Wikis
I 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 include Yahoo Maps as well? I mean, as long as...
Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel Spreadsheets
AutomateExcel, 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....
Continue reading "Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel Spreadsheets" » Google News and RSS Feeds
My 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. Slow with a lot of sway-ey bendy stuff....
August 07, 2005Interesting Places on Google Maps
There'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 including Urban, Nature, Landscape, and Countries. The listings include a...
Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon World
You 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 class she was taking. He's still a tech whiz but...
Continue reading "Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon World" » August 05, 2005Scrabble Tourneys on Google Maps
Reader 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! Woo hoo! Scrabble yourself at http://www.cross-tables.com/map.php ....
August 04, 2005The Unofficial Google Wiki
If 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 page has a roundup of some of the latest Google...
July 30, 2005Google Maps in Excel Spreadsheets
Two 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! Check it out: www.automateexcel.com/index.php/2005/07/28/google_maps_in_excel ....
July 26, 2005Google Updates Personalization Offering
Back 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 some new options. And while portalized search engines aren't my...
Continue reading "Google Updates Personalization Offering" » July 23, 2005Finding Spreadsheets With Google
Automate 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 more fun with this if you use a couple other...
Google Maps Now Has Hybrid Feature
Google 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 topping! It.. oh, never mind. You can try it at...
July 06, 2005Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video Results
Someone'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 can be used directly at Google Video. I found that...
Continue reading "Search Form for Finding Only Playable Google Video Results" » Keeping Up With Google Maps Hacks
Having 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 annotation. Check it out at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/. I do not yet...
July 05, 2005Google Maps Mashed With Census Data
I'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 to work fine, so you too can visit the site...
June 29, 2005Google Announces Video Viewer
A 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 at http://video.google.com. The viewer can run with either Firefox or...
Google Releases API for Google Maps
In 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 available at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ . Note that there are restrictions on...
Google Launches Personalized Search in Beta
Google'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 can try it at https://www.google.com/psearch/login?prev=/psearch . You'll need a Google...
Continue reading "Google Launches Personalized Search in Beta" » June 13, 2005DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result Mashup
More 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 is combine the results of Google and Yahoo into one...
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