Entries Tagged as 'google'
Google giveth and Google taketh away…
So now that Google has dropped the old interface to Google Analytics and I’ve been full time on the new one, I have some opinions on the subject. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. The new interface is pretty and provides some nice new functionality - the two that I like the most [...]
More on why I think time spent on site is a kind of a dumb metric
So now that time spent on site is the new belle of the metrics ball, I just want to register my disapproval again. It’s a great and interesting number, for sure, if you could actually measure it accurately. As far as I know, though, you can’t. I don’t want to go into a lot of [...]
Why is Feedburner trouble again?
So, David Winer came out with this post about Feedburner being trouble. Now, long time (or even short time) readers of this blog know that I’m all for Google having bought Feedburner. David didn’t like Feedburner for some reason in the first place and now that Big Bad Google bought them likes it even less. [...]
Google Custom Search Business Edition
So, for various clients I’ve used various Google in various ways. My favourite, to date, has been the Google Mini. It’s a couple grand to get one of these li’l appliances, but it’s dirt easy to set up and lets you completely customize the look of the thing, what it crawls, how often it crawls, [...]
Why does Google do this?
You know what irks me about Google? Ok, it’s not the only thing, but it’s something that definitely bothers me. They have all these different sites (search, reader, calendar, etc…) and each one is quite simple in terms of design (far from meaning that in a bad way, I think it’s great). Each site, is [...]
Dell and Google
Huh, I just caught a Dell commercial showing them making Google search appliances. I was quite surprised to see that and needed to check the interwebbing to see what was what, and lo and behold - there’s an announcement right on the Google Enterprise blog.
I wonder if the partnership with Dell is any broader than [...]
Google buys Postini!
Wow, I just read that Google is buying Postini! They’re a spam catching service that works stupendously well (they may do other stuff, too, I’m not sure). I have a client who uses them (and loves them) and a friend who works there, so I’m pretty sure they are indeed the bomb. Presumably this bodes [...]
Working at Google
You’ve probably already read the little Q&A from a former Googler who’s returned to Microsoft talking about what it was like to work at Google. Everything seems pretty credible about the piece, I’m guessing it isn’t one of Microsoft’s classic paid for research pieces.
Everything about it seems about what I thought it’d be like to [...]
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Microsoft and Yahoo in the news
Huh, well Microsoft caved to Google demands to open up Vista to be friendlier to third party desktop searches (or Instant Search, as it’s known to Vista). I guess they couldn’t hold out any longer against the might of our Justice Department! It’ll stash that in a “test version” of Vista Service Pack 1 by [...]
iPhone, a hub for mobile social media?
I was thinking a little bit about the iPhone. And then I was thinking a little bit about AppleTV. And then I was thinking a little bit about Google. And then I had a few more thoughts. So, Google’s already integrated into the iPhone, map style. We’ve seen that in the demos and the commercial. [...]
