An Internet Life

Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S.’s next antitrust chief, has described

Google’s new Conversion Room blog has recently released a video to help explain how adding a search facility can help with analytics.  Adding that there are five questions that search data enables you to answer:

How frequently do visitors use my search box and what are they looking for?
Where do searches begin and end?
Are visitors [...]

Could twitter become the new king of search?  It seems as each day of 2009 goes by, my use of twitter is increasing.  Not only in terms of tweets, but in alternate uses for the service.  Most recently its Twitter Search that’s got my attention.  Although twitter does its best it seems to avoid you [...]

I am shocked to see this! Google seems to be testing part of SearchWiki, Google’s way of promoting and removing results, to be spotted in the AdWords or sponsored ads section of the Google search results. Some people are noticing the X icon, which allows searchers to delete results from Google, in the sponsored [...]

Google’s latest foray into social networking is a toolbar it is introducing today, that shows users’ social information on other web sites. It’s designed to help web site publishers and users make better use of Google Friend Connect, a service that already lets developers add social features to web pages.
The toolbar includes buttons that, when [...]

Sometime ago I noticed how all mail systems tell you when an email was written, but not where it was sent from. Because I love to travel, the first question in many messages I receive is “where are you?” and by the time I answer I am often somewhere else.
So in my 20% time, I [...]

One advantage of storing information online is being able to access it from anywhere, on any device. Last year we released a tool for Blackberry devices to sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with the pre-installed calendar and contacts applications. Today, we’re offering more people easy access to their information on the go [...]

I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that’s how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the “flash” label first, then click [...]

Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose?

Where did your eyes go first when you saw the results page? Did they go directly to the title of the first [...]

The Google Books Blog announced they have now created a mobile version of Google Books. If you have an iPhone or Android phone just navigate your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m to start using Google Book search on your mobile device.
There are many differences between the mobile version and the regular version. The most [...]