Archive for the 'Google' Category
Google News adds quotations
April 17th, 2008CNET News.com - “Google is extracting quotations for politicians and celebrities from news sources and featuring them at the top of the Google News results page for certain searches.”
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Why are we clicking less on Google search ads?
March 27th, 2008CNET - “The latest paid-click data for search engines shows that Americans are clicking on paid search ads less than we did last year–not an encouraging trend for the state of online advertising.”
Google shareholders to vote on censorship, human rights
March 25th, 2008CNET News.com - “For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders.”
Libraries Can Beat Google at Its Own Game
March 9th, 2008Dean Giustini - “During the sabbatical, I began to contemplate how it was that Google could pose such a threat to the future of academic libraries.”
Pull the plug on the library
March 8th, 2008George Elmore - “With the advent of the Internet and Google, virtually no serious research is carried on in the library stacks.” (via)
Don’t Be so Sensitive
March 1st, 2008Is Google case sensitive?
Google Addiction
February 11th, 2008(via)
Mother Stunned To Find Daughter On Google
February 10th, 2008Not using Google, but on Google.
Freakin’ Google. So evil. (via)
U of M Reaches 1 Million
February 2nd, 2008One million digitized books on the way to 7.5…
…and Google will be laughing on their way out the door, never to look back again.
Sad.
Did Stephen Abram Really Write This?
January 30th, 2008I’m getting a 404 when I try to access the permalink, so I took a screenshot from the main page.
Wow! Even Abram, the smartest librarian in the world, thinks that Google doesn’t care about libraries. I agree. They don’t.
How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives
January 27th, 2008MediaShift - What did I do before Google and Wikipedia? Can I even remember?
Google Un-Products
January 21st, 2008From Philipp Lenssen. Hilarious. I love Google idiot.
The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all
January 19th, 2008Arstechnica - “A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite the Internet super-sleuths they’re sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also “tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many [...]
The Search Party
January 10th, 2008New Yorker - “Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, believe that expanding their company’s lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., has become a necessity.” (via)
The ReadWriteWeb needs Sexy Librarians
January 9th, 2008So says David Lee King. Right on brother and maybe could suggest other engines as well.
Wait, Google is the Internet. Nevermind.
Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search
December 13th, 2007E-Week - “Starting this week or next, queries on the leading search engine will return links to blogs alongside the images, news, books, local maps and video, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, told eWEEK in a briefing at the company’s headquarters here.”
It’s about time.
Google Responds to Blogger ID Issue
November 28th, 2007There was a court order.
I love the disclaimer at the end of the piece. Priceless.
Google Gives Up IP of Anonymous Blogger
November 27th, 2007More info on Slashdot. Is the Annoyed Librarian shaking in his/her boots? (via)
Jill <3’s Google Cache
October 22nd, 2007Jill Hurst-Wahl - “We can argue that the cache version should not exist because it violates copyright…but at the moment, I’m just glad it exists because it provided access to something that I needed.”
TheGoogle
October 16th, 2007The Onion - “The popular search engine Google announced plans Friday to launch a new site, TheGoogle.com, to appeal to older adults not able to navigate the original website’s single text field and two clearly marked buttons.” (via)
Do the Dew
October 11th, 2007Elinor Mills - “In a blind “taste test” searchers chose Google, then Microsoft and Yahoo.”
Choosing the Un-Google
September 30th, 2007Wade Roush - “If there’s one thing New England has in great supply, it’s books. And that makes the area one of the battlegrounds in the digital library wars—the competition between commercial entities such as Google and Microsoft and non-profit groups such as the Internet Archive to secure agreements to scan, digitize, and distribute the [...]
Happy 9th Google
September 27th, 2007Skip around the room. Skip around the room. We won’t shut up till you skip around the room.
Happy New Year JewTube
September 14th, 2007Google is looking to protect the YouTube Trademark.
Google This, Google That
September 10th, 2007if:book - “We’re just a couple of days away from launching what promises to be one of our most important projects to date, The Googlization of Everything, a weblog where Siva Vaidhyanathan (who’s a fellow here) will publicly develop his new book, a major critical examination of the Google behemoth.”
In Google We Trust
August 27th, 2007PCWorld - “University students may be encouraged to be critical but they don’t seem to question Google’s ranking system, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The experiment involved 22 undergraduate students (with various majors) from Cornell University, USA. It found that overall, the students had an inherent trust in [...]
My Google Reader Trends
July 17th, 2007
Unofficial Google Advanced Search
July 8th, 2007Suweeeeet! Bookmarked. (via)
More Proof that Google is Broken
June 25th, 2007Dave Winer mentioned that a search for Twittergram this afternoon brings up 406 hits. Library Stuff has the top two spots. Dave’s posts are way down there.
Google’s algorithm is broken. No question about it. Oy Vey!
Googling Privacy
June 9th, 2007I have to look at this report more at length. I use Google for a lot of things (not so much it’s search engine, but it’s docs, reader, Gmail, Calendar), so it’s important. Lots of other companies mentioned as well. (via)