Scott points out that google now gives vi some love. Take that emacs! Did that just date me? Does no one have vi vs. emacs arguments anymore? Is it now all about textmate vs. bbedit or ultraedit or whatever new fangled doodad the kids are using these days?

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So, it took a bit of me being dumb, but I figured out that if you had the old analytics page bookmarked you were never going to find the new analytics UI. Heh, I finally found the new one and I’m glad about it. Overall almost everything is an improvement. The date range (and comparison) [...]

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I read this article on APC where they struggle to find a dark side to Google’s newly announced Gmail Partner Edition. And while I appreciate the graphic of Darth they’ve posted, sadly, it’s the best thing about the article.
The first problem they run across is this:

Google’s fundamental selling point is a single one: laziness. “You [...]

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Well, it’s been a long hard road, but at last I feel google complete. The last piece of the puzzle - the statistics tab in G’s webmaster tools - has finally filled in and told me that most of my pages have a low pagerank. It’s been three and a half months since I began [...]

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So I just read the rumor that Google’s buying Feedburner. I’ve been talking to Scott about this forever - a lot of times when there M&A activity in tech, I tend to think it’s not the best move or at best is neutral - this, though, is one that I think makes good sense. Feedburner’s [...]

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So, I just read on the google blog that Google Analytics has a new interface that’s fancier and easier to use. Sadly it is only available to new users of the serivce - it’s coming to existing users in the next couple weeks, I guess.
It looks really interesting. I’m looking forward to building my [...]

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Well, it’s a few days shy of my 3 monthiversary and Google has finally given me a little love and set me up with a toolbar pagerank of 5! I figured it’d probably be a 4 or a 5 (although I secretly hoped it would be a 6, wrote it on a scrap of paper [...]

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Wow, Google’s got a new (at least to me, don’t know how new) housing search for google base real estate listings. Search for rentals 10003 or real estate new york (you need to then click on the housing search button) or what have you and lo and behold. Listings. Map.
They give you some decent search [...]

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So some more old news, this article on Google’s new privacy measures. I was all excited to read this and see what the do-no-evil’ers were up to and it started off great when:
Google promised to wrap a cloak of anonymity around the vast amounts of information that the Mountain View-based company regularly collects about its [...]

Categories: google · rant

I was writing a comment on TechDirt on the growing frustration people have with Google. I’ve been blogging about it recently from a few angles with surprising frequency (surprising to me, at least). And I realized something while typing up that comment.
First is it reasonable for Google to maintain it’s stance on keeping their [...]

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