I was reading in the Virginian-Pilot this morning about Google Transit. Public transit systems across Virginia are using a new Internet tool to make it easier for bus riders to plan their trips. The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation initiated the use of Google Transit, which Charlottesville Transit Service officials announced T [...]
Back in July, CUIL debuted and absolutely blew up. It was totally worthless as a search engine. There were several other articles written across the Internets about the same thing. I haven’t really thought much about it until this morning. So I decided to do a search on CUIL for something that has been all over the news and blogs locally her [...]
Image via Wikipedia I am a huge fan of RIAs, Rich Internet Applications. I use Zoho, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Apps, Acrobat and others on a frequent basis. My primary email is still a good old pop3 account off of my server but by and large the majority of my email is handled with a web client. Either Gmail, Live Mail [...]
I had heard this was coming. And in fact, I’ve been playing with it since last Thursday. Trying to break it. It’s pretty solid. You can now SMS TEXT MESSAGE right from your Gmail Account page. Just like chatting. Now you can keep the conversations going with a new Labs feature that lets you send SMS text messages right from Gmail. [...]
A watchdog group watching the Google Empire to hold them accountable for “Being Evil” in spite of their 10 Guiding Principles. An aside: What exactly is a google: Actually, its a googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 [...]
Is this a good idea or bad? Should Twitter have sold off to Facebook? This story broke this morning from Kara Swisher at BoomTown. Her title is priceless: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled Kara went on to discuss the pros and cons of the takeover. First offer vice wait for something better. I wonder about Twitter& [...]
Why in the WORLD would Google Maps give directions like this? Insane. [...]
Finally, someone with some methodology to testing search engines has placed all the big boys in one place and graded them. Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz ran a set of tests to rate the big search engines on relevancy, coverage, freshness, diversity and user experience. He built a chart mapping out his results. Testing Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live.c [...]
Image via WikipediaI first read this on Leslie Carbone and started laughing (See her post here). So I plugged the statement into Google Blog Search… LOL Read what the blogosphere is saying about Barack Hussein Obama’s latest gaffe. “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or [...]
