Gadgetopia

A few months ago, Google released Google Custom Search Business Edition, which is a way to use Google as the search engine on your own site, while having more control over the search results page. When we posted on it a couple months ago, I said this: This will cannibalize ...

Google turns 9 today Happy Birthday! (it just so happens to be my birthday as well, but that s slightly less notable.) We write a lot about Google here (as do lots of others), and I think it s a rare day that I don t touch something associated with Google. But, I m ...

More on 'Google Purchases': If you hate PayPal, here's some joy for you. The new 'Google Purchases' service (purchases.google.com) will be launched in a few days, and is to allow users to make micropayments within 'Google Base' (buy and sell all kinds of items), to acquire licences of 'Google Earth', ...

Google.org: I was totally unaware of this. Welcome to Google.org -- the philanthropic arm of Google Google.org includes the work of the Google Foundation, some of Google's own projects using Google talent, technology and other resources, as well as partnerships and contributions to for-profit and non-profit entities. While we continue ...

Google Dance - The Index Update of the Google Search Engine: Insanely technical analysis of how Google does what it does. A sample: "For every domain www-xx.google.com, there is an additional domain www-xx2.google.com. The IP address of such a domain ends on .101 instead of .100. These pairs of domains ...

Google Watch Watch: Guy complains about Google, creates a site called Google Watch, then someone complains about Guy, creates a site called Google Watch Watch. It's all a vicious circle.

Could Google kill the cell phone industry?: This is a very interesting picture of why one guy thinks Google wants to lease the 700Mhz spectrum from the U.S. government. He makes a good case and an exciting one. With full leasing ownership of the 700MHz spectrum, Google will try to effectively ...

Google treading on Microsoft turf in Dell tests: In the article, both Dell and Google confirm this report. The report, citing unnamed sources, said Dell and Google are in talks to put Google software on as many as 100 million new Dell PCs following a bidding process in which Google ...

Urchin Software Beta Now Public: Google has finally updated Urchin, the product that they built Google Analytics from. We discussed previously how it kind of got abandoned by Google. Today we re happy to announce that the Urchin Software from Google beta is now available for download at urchin.com. Urchin Software ...

Google Guide: Interactive Tutorial Making Search Even Easier: A good tutorial on how to plumb the depths of Google. If you're like many people, you use only a fraction of Google's features and services. The more you know about how Google works, its features and capabilities, the better it can ...

Google, Amazon in a war of search words: Two Internet heavyweights are scrapping it out for top talent. Oh, to have a computer science degree... "Google and Amazon.com are fighting for top computer scientists on Google's home turf: search results. When Web surfers use Google to search on the name ...

Welcome to Google Sites: I guess should shut down the company. Google has obviated us. Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information from videos to presentations and ...

Google enlists help for Google Phone: Will this be the first official announcement of the GPhone an item that everyone is talking about as if Google has official acknowledged it? Google today plans to announce the formation of an open phone coalition, with the goal of developing an operating ...

Google Sniping Inappropriate, Ungrateful: This is really refreshing a spirited defense of Google. Google has done really great work for everyone, and we tend to look at it as a public service, like Google owes us all something. We whine and complain about algorithm shuffling like we have a ...

Sync your Firefox settings via Google: There are privacy issues galore here, but the fact remains I've been wishing for something like this for a long time. Google Labs releases the Google Sync Firefox extension, which saves your browser's cookies, passwords, bookmarks, history and current list of open tabs to ...

More evidence of a Google browser: Interesting... On April 26, 2004, Google registered gbrowser.com... Based on speculation here: Last summer, Anil Dash suggested that it would be a good move for Google to develop a Google browser based on Mozilla. Give that kid a gold star because it looks more ...

Google Search: skip intro filetype:swf: Various blogs have noted today that Google is indexing Flash files.

The blooming of information architecture at Google: A close look at facets, tags & categories in GoogleBase: A big overview of Google Base, and how Google has subtly done some amazing things with information architecture. I just spent some time with GoogleBase and was amazed at just how deeply Google ...

When Google acquisitions go wrong: the disappointing story of Urchin: This opinion piece is so true. Everyone knows that Google Analytics was based off of Urchin, but if you go to Urchin today and try to buy it, you ll find that it, well, sucks. None of the coolness that went ...

Google in 2005 | Infograph: Very funny. What does Google plan to do next? [...]Patent the idea of looking for something. [...]Launch Google Good Men, as good men have historically been hard to find.

Google's newest search tool raises privacy concerns: Just sell your soul to Google now and get it over with. Google Desktop 3, the latest version of software that helps users find files on personal computers, has a new feature that can track data from multiple PCs. To do that, it ...

Search engine Google plans own WiFi service: Can someone explain why on Earth Google feels the need to do this? Internet search leader Google is preparing to launch its own wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's Web site on Tuesday.

How Google Earth Ate Our Town: Interesting story about how Nanaimo, British Columbia has become a huge testbed for Google Earth. The city is giving Google reams of data, and Google is exposing that in Google Earth. The city s planning department has, over the past five years, steadily fed Google ...

About Google Print (BETA): Google is not screwing around these days. They're doing about a new feature a week. On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale. Book seller links are not paid for by ...

For a site whose interface consists of a text field and two buttons, Google certainly spends a lot of time figuring out how to make the interface easier. Check out Google Suggest What is Google Suggest? As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and ...

BBC NEWS | UK | Google calls in the 'language police': Why do companies insist on doing this? Google has called in the lawyers to try and stop people from using "Google" has a verb ("Did you google that new girlfriend of yours?"): "The company's lawyers are trying to stamp ...

Google Base Was Sort of Live: Oh crap -- Google is finally making the inevitable play to own everything. The one, true universal database. Someone call Fabian. Google Base is Google's database into which you can add all types of content. We'll host your content and make it searchable online ...

Google has a made a subtle but big change with site searches. You can now do a "site" search with no keywords and Google will return all pages in its index for that site. Here's one for this site, though I'm curious how Google thinks it has 7,170 pages. You ...

Google Search: dean: The Wesley Clark crew bought the AdWord "dean" (for Howard Dean, his competition) over at Google. Via John Robb.

Google blackballs reporters, CNET: Nothing more fun than a pissing contest between tech giants. Google Inc. has blacklisted all CNET reporters for a year, after the popular technology news website published personal information of one of Google's founders in a story about growing privacy concerns for the Internet search engine, ...

Google eyes book search: Google isn't taking this Amazon Look Inside the Book thing lying down. "Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online, according to a report this week from Publishers Weekly's online ...

Court hears dispute over how Google sells advertising: Wasn't this a big deal a few years ago? I remember Playboy suing over (other) porn sites putting banner ads on search results pages for the keyword "Playboy." Attorneys for auto insurance giant Geico told U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema that Google ...

Google History: Fascinating concept. You need a Google API key to try it, though. "GoogleAnswers is a simple google api experiment. The program tries to answer historical questions with years as answers. It does this by scanning the top 10 pages according to google (from the google cache) for years, ...

Ricky as a Google image search: This guy deressed up as a "Google Image Search" for Halloween. God help us all. Via Kottke.

Google Experimental Search: I didn t know this existed. It s a page on Google where you can try out all sorts of pending Google changes. Join an experiment and you ll see that feature whenever you do a Google search. Your selected experiment: You have joined the experiment. Note that you can ...

Google stock surges after profit sails past expectations: Google is rocking Wall Street this morning. Google said it earned $381.2 million in the quarter, seven times more than a year ago. Gross revenue shot up 96% to $1.58 billion. Stock is up 12%. Analysts had predicted revenue at just under ...

Google puts coders to the test: The Google Code Jam has a winner. Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, was announced the winner Friday of Google's second annual Code Jam. He beat out more than 5,000 of the world's top programmers who signed up to compete in Google's contest to ...

Foes of Bush Enlist Google to Make Point: Search Google for miserable failure. I had no idea you could do this. Google executives say they have no corporate opinion of the Bush presidency. Instead, the episode is another example of a form of cyber-graffiti known as "Google bombing." It is ...

Google to abandon answer service: Google Answers is shutting down. Yahoo Answers was clobbering it. Google Inc. doesn't have all the answers -- a fact underscored by the Internet search leader's decision to abandon a 4-year-old service that hired researchers to field questions on everything from school homework to sports ...

Google News Alerts: This is new. "Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify"

Dell to put Google on all new PCs: I think Google is going to become the new Microsoft. [...] that the arrangement [means] that the Google's search toolbar would appear on the screens of all new Dell systems and that Dell users would be directed to a Web page branded ...

Take a look back in time at baby Google. Most of the students on this page, are now executives on this one. "Note: Google is research in progress and there are only a few of us so expect some downtimes and malfunctions. This system used to be called Backrub. New! ...

Google to scan books from big libraries: Google is going to start scanning the books in libraries. The New York library is allowing Google to include a small portion of its books no longer covered by copyright while Harvard is confining its participation to 40,000 volumes so it can gauge ...

Judge dismisses suit against Google: I've been following this case for a while. This is where a company sued Google because the search engine shuffled their algorithm which dropped this company off the front page and caused them considerable loss of business. The company SearchKing of Oklahoma City ...

Google GlobeTrotting: Home: Great site full of Google Maps of famous places, like Bill Gates's house and an Atlanta airport with a half dozen planes coming for a landing or just taking off when the picture was taken (look for the shadows). Why does it feel like Google Maps with ...

Google Print: Amazon releases A9; Google releases Google Print. It's an arms race. To use Google Print, just do searches on Google as you normally would. Whenever a book contains content that matches your search terms, we'll show links to that book in your search results. Click on the book ...

Google adds very cool Q&A feature: How on earth do they do all this stuff? Google is rapidly crossing the line into freaky magic stuff. Google adds very cool Q&A feature: What is the population of Texas? When was Jason Kottke born? When did Hunter S. Thompson die? Google says ...

According to Google Sightseeing, Google Maps has made some significant improvements. Today Google quietly updated its map service to add high-resolution aerial photography for much more of the globe than the previous limited coverage of North America. New additions include Scotland, Iceland, Kuwait and many, many more. Cool! Now even ...

Google Plans to Put Video Ads Into Search Results: Your next search in Google could deliver a TV commercial. At CitiGroup s Technology Summit in New York this week, Google s Business Product Manager for Ads Quality Nicholas Fox said the company will be moving ahead with integration of video and image ...

Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google: I don't think this will actually happen in a million years, but it's fun to think about. Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet. Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores ...

Google Starts Auto Stemming Searches: Yes, the latest Google dance irritated some, but this is an improvement. Basically, Google now takes search terms and looks for grammatical variants of SOME of them. Unfortunately, Google does not make it clear which terms it stems and which it does not. I found ...

Have your Google people talk to my 'googol' people: The mathmetician Edward Kasner coined the term "googol" in the 40s to describe a one with a hundred zeroes behind it. That's where the search engine Google got its name. Now that Google is on the verge of an IPO, descendants ...

The house that helped build Google: Fascinating story about the woman who owned the actual garage where Google was started. After earning her MBA in 1998, Wojcicki bought 232 Santa Margarita Ave. for about $600,000. She rented the garage to two Stanford students for $1,700 a month to help with ...

Why your cool church web site needs (the new) Google Analytics: Mean dean gives a good look and what s new with Google Analytics. I think this is the first big update since Google bought Urchin. Yesterday, at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen announced a ...

Handbag maker Vuitton sues Google: Google is on the hot seat in France over its keyword advertising program. This is the third French lawsuit this year about the same issue. "But Google also posts links to companies and organizations that have paid to be associated with certain keywords even ...

Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective: Microsoft hired an ex-Google employee, pumped him for information, and is internally passing around this intel about how things really are at Google. The most depressing thing here is about Google s much-vaunted 20% Time which is the supposed 20% of your time you ...

The Google Dance finally explained: This is an awfully interesting look at the the "dance" Google does to get all the pages on the Internet. I had no idea there were secondary and tertiary databases, nor that it made several successvie crawls. "Each 'dance' begins with Google making a major, ...

Blog noise achieves Google KO: The Register blames trackback for messing up Google search results. Their theory is that trackback pings generate empty pages with just enough keywords to pollute search results. They point to this search as an example. Check the URLs of the results trackback pages account ...

Google to take down front-page boast about index size: Apparently Google and Yahoo! are counting "pages" differently, and Google takes exception that Yahoo! claims more than they have. Google Inc. will stop boasting on its home page about the number of Web pages it has stored in its index, even ...

Google s GPhone strategy could keep user costs low: Google takes another step toward the GPhone. Google s widely anticipated — and top secret — GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple s glitzy iPhone — by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say. That scenario gained credence last week after ...

Search Engine Showdown News: Google Tweaks Its Number to 3.3 Billion and Adds "Supplemental Results": This is interesting. "...I have suddenly found a few hits that Google labels as 'Supplemental Result' right before the cached link as in the last record on this search. I'm not sure what this 'Supplemental ...

The Ultimate Guide to Google Services: A fantastic guide to everything that Google is doing on the Web these days. I didn't know they had their hands in so much stuff.

Google Search Tips 2005: This is the best list of Google search tips I've ever seen. I did not know 60% of these. Try this one: You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find "home" too, search for [~house]. To get ...

Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines: Google: News and Media: Weblogs: Behold a DMOZ category specifically for Weblogs about Google. Slicing that taxonomy a little thin, aren't we? Via ResourceBuzz.

For the 2008 Race, Google Is a Crucial Constituency: Interesting article about how candidates are trying to sway to Google vote. LAST century, General Motors assembly plants were a regular stop on the itineraries of presidential candidates. This election cycle, Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., has become a favorite ...

The Web, According to Google: An interesting look at what effect Google has on information retrieval. I will admit to checking Google and little else at times. "Were Google less influential that probably wouldn't matter. But as Americans, especially young ones, come to regard the leading search site as the ...

Google wows investors with first results since IPO: Part of being a publicly-traded company is that you have to release earning reports. In their first report ever, it looks like Google is going to trounce Yahoo! over the next few years. Google reported revenue of $805.9 million, more than double ...

Google to sell Dells to corporate customers: Google and Dell are getting really cozy, which probably irritates Bill to no end. new PowerEdge servers bundled with Google's search software to the search outfit's corporate customers. The bundled machines are meant to help companies search for and manage internal documents and ...

Webmasters Weary of Latest Google Tweaks: For the umpteenth time in the last few months, Google has irritated people. A Google update that observers say started on Nov. 16 has created a buzz on online message boards and search engine marketing newsletters, even spawning conspiracy theories among some posters. Some ...

Google Click-to-Call: Has anyone tried this yet? I couldn't get a phone icon on any of a dozen keyword-rich searches I tried. We're testing a new product that gives you a free and fast way to speak directly to the advertiser you found on a Google search results page -- ...

Google tinkerers make data come alive: CNN has an article on what people are doing with Google maps. Tracking sexual predators in Florida. Guiding travelers to the cheapest gas nationwide. Pinpointing $1,500 studio apartments for rent in Manhattan. Geeks, tinkerers and innovators are crashing the Google party, having discovered how ...

Google Presentations Released: Google has just added its Power Point replacement, alongside its Word and Excel replacements. The first impression is that Google Presentations does all it’s supposed to do (and without resorting to Java or Flash, at least judging by the parts I checked – it’s DHTML/ Ajax technology). ...

AnandTech Search goes Google: These guys provide a review of the Google Search Applicance, which is a box you can buy from Google(for three grand) to index your own site or your intranet. What's interesting is that they spend three of the four pages talking about the hardware (it's a ...

About Google's AdSense: A little thin on content yet. "Welcome to About-AdSense.com the first website totally dedicated to helping you get the most out of Google's new AdSense program."

The magic that makes Google tick?: Good article about the miracle that is Google. Did you know they run 60,000 servers over there? That's a mighty big power strip. Google indexes over four billion Web pages, using an average of 10KB per page, which comes to about 40TB. Google is ...

Frequent Search Engine Users, Google Is Watching and Counting: Does anybody have this? "Think of it as an odometer for a search engine. The Web search service Google has quietly started placing a counter on its home page for a small number of its most frequent users. Most Google users ...

Google introduces software for mobile phones: Well, there s going to be no hardware device called the GPhone. Instead, Google is building an OS which people at the demo said was very iPhone-like, then giving it away. [ ] there will be no branded Google Phone. The software running on the phones ...

Google compromised its principles in China, founder says: It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Google co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to ...

The Secret Source of Google's Power: Here's a fascinating post (speculation?) about what's going on over at Google. It imagines the complexity involved with running 100,000 servers, and it speculates on just what Google is up to namely building a mammoth OS that runs natively on distributed servers. Think ...

Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map: Google gets Measure Map and Jeff Veen from Adaptive Path in one fell swoop. Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I've been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years. By opening up the ...

MIcrosoft courting Google : Yikes. "Microsoft Corp., seeking a foothold in the Internet search business, approached Google within the last two months to discuss a partnership or even a merger, according to a published report Friday. [...] The report, quoting company executives and others briefed on the discussions, said Google ...

Here's an interesting tidbit I read tonight in John Batelle's "The Search." You know PageRank, the super-secret mojo that makes Google what it is? Google doesn't own it. Page and Brin came up with it at Stanford, so Stanford owns it. Google has an exclusive license to it. Until 2011. ...

Google Tackles Search Memory in Beta Service: Anyone tried this yet? Google on Wednesday launched a personalized Web search service that stores users' search histories, builds individualized search data into Web results and suggests related searches.

Google Enterprise: Google Search Appliance: The latest version of the Google Search Appliance has direct connectors for some popular CMS systems, so it can spider their content both by browsing the resulting HTML pages, or by directly plugging into the systems. The connector framework makes it easy for partners, developers ...

Google Checkout: The long-rumored service finally came on line this morning. It was supposedly going to be "Google Purchase." Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. With Google Checkout you can quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place. What!? ...

Google tests local search "Google is experimenting with search results tailored to a person's geographic location, after a similar move by rival Overture Services. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said Monday that Google Labs, the search company's research-and-development arm, unveiled a program that lets people type in a search term, along ...

Waiting For the Big One: People are talking about Google IPO as if it's the Second Coming. "It's difficult to precisely estimate the offering's potential size. The whispering in the Valley is that Google's revenues this year could be in the range of $700 million to $1 billion, with profits ...

Google Unveils Web-Searching Software: "Internet search engine Google has unveiled free software that lets people search the Web quickly without launching a Web browser. Google Deskbar, released Thursday, appears as a search box in the Windows toolbar. After the search words are entered, a resizable mini-viewer pops up with ...

Google Calendar: How long has this been released? It's been rumored forever, with people watching the subdomain for about as long. Simplify. Organize. (And relax.) Organizing your schedule shouldn't be a burden. That's why we've created Google Calendar -- our free online shareable calendar service. With Google Calendar, it's easy ...

Google Testing True User-Specified Ads: This is an interesting angle. Google is testing a feature whereby you can swap out the Adsense ads supplied to the page you're viewing for another, related set, or enter a search term. With this, Google has essentially put a search box on every Adsense ...

Slut-o-meter Google promiscuity calculator: A somewhat brilliant application of Google. [...] the Google Slut-o-Meter determines what an online trollop you are based on the number of Google search results for your name with SafeSearch enabled compared to the number of unsafe results. So if you have no nude pictures on ...

Google Page Creator: Joseph Scott pointed me over here this morning. Google Pages is a Web page editor built in Google style. I don't know what the point is, but you can create "pages" with a pretty compentent editor. Here's my first Google Page. It was simple to create, and ...

Official Google Blog: Writely so: Geez, that was quick. Watch out, Google may buy you next. For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley startup called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm happy ...

Google Docs to go "offline" and more: This guy wnt digging through the source of the new Google Docs and Spreadsheets and found two interesting things: They're going to offer a desktop-ish version. It looks like it will run in a browser, but it will talk to a local port, ...

Google Scholar: This is new. From a USA Today article: By focusing on the citations contained in academic papers, Google also engineered its new system to provide a list of potentially helpful material available at libraries and other offline sources.

Google Adding New Features to Google Trends: Google s new Trends feature shows you the hottest search terms that day. I looked in on it the other day, and I was confused at some of the things people were searching for. They seemed so random and specific. Here s why: people are ...

Google Answers HCI PhD Program: This page comes up first when you Google for cancel google. The page happens to allow comments. The results, like we ve seen before, are hysterical. I WANT TO TAKE GOOGLES OFF OF MY HOME PAGE [ ] I did not authorize google to invade and set ...

Where Are All The Google Data Centers?: Interesting look at just where Google stores all their data around the world. There are 36 data centers in all—19 in the U.S., 12 in Europe, 3 in Asia, and one each in Russia and South America. We re very excited because Google is ...

Google's growing list of domains: Interesting list. I really want to know what they're going to do with "cobrasearch.com". Currently Google owns 520 domain names. Their domain collection has been growing over the last couple years because of all of the companies they started and have bought. Some of these ...

Google Co-op: Google will let you create a search engine that searches a specified set of sites. Harness the power of Google search technology to create a free Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests - and make money from the resulting traffic. Example: Portman Wills created the ...

Google is dying: I think the title of this bit may be a little dramatic, but the author points out an interesting phenomenon with Google pages lately. On sites with more than a few thousand pages, Google is not indexing anywhere from ten percent to seventy percent of the pages ...

Google street view: This site is in French, but it s still interesting. It s already collected a few dozen funny images from Google Street View. My favorite is this one from San Francisco that appears to show the camera van was speeding.

Google search engine strands Web surfers: Never once, in all the years I've been on the Net, have I known Google to be down. Google stranded some Web surfers Monday, unable to meet visitors' requests for more than an hour. At around 11:15 a.m. ET, the world's No. 1 search ...

Google will go public: It's like the second coming for tech investors. Internet search engine leader Google filed its long-awaited IPO plans Thursday, setting the stage for the company to make its stock market debut a move that could still be months away. Without specifying a price per share, ...

Welcome to Google TiSP: Google's on a roll this morning. Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. TiSP ...

Quixtar Blog: Quixtar Admits Google Bombing: Quixtar, a subsidiary of Amway, is apparently celebrating a coordinated Google-bombing and search engine spamming campaign. One of their people some guy named Greg Duncan boasted about it on stage in front of thousands of people. Probably not wise. Quixtar is waging ...

Google stealthily monitoring clickthroughs from search-results: I noticed this the other day because if you get a 404 on the modified link, you get taken to a Google error page. There's some very subtle clickthrough tracking going on at Google. Just before you click on a link on a search-results ...

Google takes 'beta' off desktop search: What? A Google tool coming out of beta? How unlike them. The SDK sounds very, very promising. Google on Monday plans to introduce a full version of its desktop-search software, with a developer's kit and support for Firefox and Netscape Web browsers. The Mountain ...

Why bother seeing the world for real?

Here's a handy trick with Google: "inurl" searches. You can search for a text string in just the URLs of Google's index. For instance, I wanted to know what content management system a certain site used. All of the site's URLs had the same patten ("/cgi-bin/b7/..."). This search in Google... ...

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble: Google has a fascinating little problem on its hands, courtesy of its daycare center. Employees are wicked pissed, which will likely make for an exodus of talent. [Employees] who had been paying $1,425 a month for infant care would see their costs ...

Google code search: Kottke finds all sorts of goodies in the new Google Code Search. Possible buffer overflow points [...] Key generation algorithm for WinZip [...] Kludge-y code That buffer overflow search is classic -- it searches for a comment that reads "should be big enough."

Google local business ads (Beta): This is new today. Whenever a user enters a query that matches advertisers' chosen keywords and business information, up to three local business ads may appear as "Sponsored Links" below the user's Google Local search results. The ads display in two parts: a highlighted listing ...

The next hot internet stock: The Economist is bearish but realistic on Google's chances in the coming years. "Even more frightening (especially to those who remember Netscape's fate in the browser wars), Microsoft smells blood. It is currently working on its own search algorithm, which it hopes to ...

Google won't dump offensive anti-Semitic site: Google is in a bad spot here. Searching for the word "jew" on Google returns an anti-semitic site in the top spot. "I certainly am very offended by the site, but the objectivity of our rankings is one of our very important principles," ... ...

Rumors are swirling about Google Calendar. The theory is that Google is developing an algorithm to index events along with their dates. Thus, you could search for "oakland raiders" and get a list of game dates for the Raiders (which would normally be dates for mourning, but we got Moss ...

Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?: It s looking like Google has dinged a bunch of sites this one included for selling text links or cross-linking within a blog network. That s the suspicion, anyway. Some people are arguing that since the PR drop is not generalized, it must be a ...

Google Content Blocker: Fantastic idea. Why didn't I think of this? [...] annoying Web content often overwhelms the page, causing many users to become distracted and overlook the ads. That's where Google Content Blocker comes in. It effectively blocks all Web site content, leaving only the advertisements.

Google AdSense for RSS running at Weblogs, Inc.: This is gonna be big. With screencap. In case you didn’t notice, some of your favorite Weblogs, Inc. blogs now have Google AdSense in the RSS feeds. Of course, I'm just trying to trick people anyway.

Google University Search: I don't know if this is new, but it seems handy. Google's University Search enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website. Try it for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news... Sadly, my alma mater is not listed.

I've decided to punt on the search system for this site. I was using my own little home-built PHP system (detailed here), but I'm going to push off to Google, I think. (Try Boing Boing's search box to see what I mean.) I have great search placement in Google (the ...

Google SMS: At the risk of drama, I think Google is redefining information retrieval. They've got something new every day, it seems. They're not going to stop until they have a little man implanted in your head reading you the day's headlines. Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to ...

Mint has reminded me of the some of the weird terms in which I get "stuck" in Google. I don't know why this is -- for some reason, Google just fixates on certain posts. (On a related note, my five-day-old post on SpamStopsHere is now number three on Google for ...

Google today celebrates it's 5th birthday. "The search engine site moved to its first office, actually a garage, in Menlo Park, California on 7 September 1998. "

The people over at Movable Type are miffed that the new Google 2.0 bar doesn't support MT blogging the "Blog This" button goes to Blogger only. Anil Dash is asking people to report this to Google as a "bug." Maybe he's kidding.

Google Guide: Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators): Great list of obscure operators for Google searches. Restrict your search by file type, search for definitions, search for terms only in links on the page, isolate by location, etc. Good to see all of this in one place. Via Boing Boing.

From The Register: "Google is to create a search tool specifically for weblogs, most likely giving material generated by the self-publishing tools its own tab."

Gmail: Google s approach to email: Here s Google s April Fools Day entry for this year. Just click Set custom time from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or ...

Google Web Search Features: This is new. Parcel tracking IDs, patents and other specialized numbers can be entered into Google's search box for quick access to information about them. For example, typing "fedex" followed by a space and a FedEx tracking number will return the latest information on your package.

Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?: While I know that Jeremy is not a huge Google fan to start with, I have to agree with him that this is insanely blatant. So blatant, in fact, that I'm left thinking there's more to the story. Back when IE7 launched, Yahoo! created a customized ...

Imitation and the Slippery Slope of Portaldom: My Google: Google released Personalized Home Pages today. What I found interesting was Jeremy Zawodny's response to it (he works at Yahoo!, remember). There's a radical idea! A customized home page with a search box at the top. Innovative! Whoever thought of the ...

Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia and Panaramio. You can see related Wikipedia articles and images from any spot on the map by clicking the More tab.

USATODAY.com - Google introduces advanced news search feature: I tried it. Works pretty good. "The new feature, available by clicking on an 'advanced search' link in Google's news section, enables users to limit news searches to particular publications and dates. The tool also narrows searches to stories containing an exact ...

Google Tries Out Its Own Friendster-Style Service: The social networking space is getting awfully crowded, capped now by Google's entry. The launch of Orkut comes after Friendster's rejection late last year of Google's offer to buy the site that has become known as an online venue for hooking up friends ...

Clever little sh*t: This is brutally funny. Watch the YouTube video that started it -- I'd have fallen for it if I had seen it. Last Friday a YouTuber by the name of "Mark Erickson" posted a video claiming to reveal an easter egg in Gmail that unlocked an invite ...

Google Custom Search Business Edition: I ve been waiting for this for ages now. It s Google search for your own site, but with much more control than the old site:mysite.com method. With this, you pay $100 per year for the basic plan, but you can get the results in XML, which ...

Google Gears API Developer s Guide: Gears is interesting. Here s what it does, on the surface. Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. But I think for some applications, this is going to be like a DVR. With a DVR, ...

Google bows to Chinese censorship: I guess it's inevtiable that company this visible would get embroiled in so many disputes. Sometimes it seems like they can't win. Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for ...

Just F**king Google It: Found this in a comment on this site. Someone thinks you are an idiot because you were too stupid to check Google before asking a question. They gave you a link to this site as a joke. The fact that you followed it pretty much proves ...

Google Press Center: 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist: The Google Zeitgiest is out for 2003 and, as always, it's pretty interesting. They include graphs on the search term spikes for various events: the California earthquake, Matrix Reloaded, SARS, etc. And, of course, the top search terms of the year: Britney Spears, Harry ...

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Manage Google IPO: It's getting closer. This will be the biggest thing to hit Silicon Valley in quite a while. Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as much as $4 ...

The Anatomy of a Search Engine: As near as I can tell, this is the original research paper submitted to Stanford by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page describing a new search tool they made called "Google." In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which ...

Computer artist doodles oodles of 'Google's: Here's an interview with the guy that draws all Google's little logos. (Incidentally, I'm guessing Google is six today?) Herald: Which letters are your favorite targets for manipulation? Hwang: Understandably, the "O" and the "L" are the easiest to deal with. The "O" has ...

How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web - New York Times: A good article about how Google changed Web advertising inadvertantly in 2000 by innocently demanding that all ads on its service be text ony. Remember the X10 pop-unders? FIVE years ago, Web advertisers were engaged in an ...

Google Analytics: All your traffic are belong to us. Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site ...

In honor of Google's 5th birthday, I thought I'd share the Google Mirror site. "A common practice for busy websites is to create a mirror site, which is an exact replica of the original site but on a different server. This way if one server is really busy, you can ...

Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google: This is interesting for a couple reasons. First, because it s just good to know. Second, because it confirms the value of keywords in the URL, as I ve questioned in the past. One key development that Matt shared with the audience was that underscores ...

Google Holiday Logos: I love Google's themed logos. "We have a variety of logos commemorating holidays and events. We've put them in this online museum for your amusement. Please do not use them elsewhere. And please, don't feed the kangaroo." This page has the 2003 logos there are links ...