Trump/Bend on Google

It seems I am the number one search on Google for “Donald Trump Bend Oregon“. That’s awesome. I think I should win something :). Even more amusing is reading the comments I got on that post, with the variations on the rumor people have heard. How about this? Start a weblog called BendRumors.com (the domain… Continue reading Trump/Bend on Google

Sklar on Google Toolbar

David Sklar, a PHP programmer/author I respect, has a post on his blog on the Google Toolbar controversy. Sklar joins the voices of reason on this, few and far between though we may be. It’s a good post, worth the read, but I think his opening and closing sentences are the kickers: Why do folks… Continue reading Sklar on Google Toolbar

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Google’s AutoLink

Lots of invective and rhetoric being written about Google‘s new Toolbar functionality, AutoLink. Originally I probably wasn’t going to write anything about it, it’s really such a non-issue, but I’m growing irritated by the number of bloggers—mostly A-listers—who are speaking out against it. I’m not irritated as a knee-jerk reaction in defense of Google, but… Continue reading Google’s AutoLink

Google in The Dalles

I first spotted the news a few days ago on Metroblogging Portland: Google in The Dalles. Then my wife read about it online this morning, and now it’s on Slashdot. Sounds interesting, but it seems like kind of a random place to plunk down a data center (if that’s what they intend to build). Well,… Continue reading Google in The Dalles

Much Ado About nofollow

Watching the various debate about Google’s nofollow initiative has been enlightening. Ostensibly, it was supposed to be a way to fight comment spam on weblogs, but predictably it took no time at all for people to figure out how to game the system. Also predictably, anti-nofollow support launched equally quickly. I won’t use it. At… Continue reading Much Ado About nofollow

The Google Platform

I’ve already seen several links to this today (the first from UtterlyBoring), and it’s too interesting not to point to. The post in question posits this: Google is a platform. Not a “platform,” used in the same sense that Amazon and eBay are platforms (custom Web applications that allow some programmatic user interfaces), but an… Continue reading The Google Platform

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Google Image Search

Playing around with Google‘s image search, I’ve thought of some advanced search features they need to implement. Hopefully someone at Google is reading this and will get right on it 😉 You need to be able to search by specific image dimensions (in pixels); for example, I’d like to be able to type “width:80 height:15”… Continue reading Google Image Search

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Timely Wired Issue

After all the hubbub over Google the last few days, I thought it was pretty interesting when my issue of Wired came today, with “Googlemania!” on the cover. Timely.

Is Google Broken?

Elsewhere on this site I’ve stated that I love Google. That still mostly holds true, but there’s been some things about Google lately that are making me pause a bit. The first concerns Google’s apparent abandonment of RSS for (exclusively) the still-incubating Atom syndication format/API. I won’t bother rehashing the situation here; if you want… Continue reading Is Google Broken?

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