I’m a weather junkie, no doubt about it. However, I was surprised to see that NOAA has implemented Google Maps into their point forecast pages. Typically, the map would display a plain image with county lines and various cities. Clicking on the exact location of where you live for your specific forecast was a trivial [...]
October 20th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "google"
Is Jaiku Still Around?
Remember Jaiku? That service which was launched in 2007 which aimed to be a Twitter like service except that it was more of a content aggregator than anything else. Using Jaiku, users can type in 140 character messages as updates while also having conetent aggregated from other services they are apart of through parsing RSS [...]
June 8th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Human Mind Vs Google Searcher
Brad Williams, no not the Brad of Strangework.com but a different Brad Williams is known for having a superior memory. Brad can somehow recall events in uncanny detail. In fact, he can recall any event or anything he has experienced to the point of knowing what the weather was like that day.
Williams’ type of detailed, [...]
Google Still At The Top
Neilsen Online has released search share rankings within the U.S. As expected, Google is leading the way with over 4 billion searches. Over half of those searches are shared while 37.9 searches were attributed per searcher. Yahoo! came in 2nd place with 1.2 billion searches, 17.7% of those were shared while there were 22.4 searches [...]
January 20th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
Google Takes Feeds Out Of Search Results
Not sure how long this has been going on, but a post on the Google Webmaster Blog talks about the removal of feeds showing up in search results with the exception of podcast XML feeds. I for one am really happy that Google took this measure because it was becoming increasingly annoying, to browse search [...]
December 27th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
Blogs Introduced Into Universal Google Search
eWeek is reporting that Google will be adding blogs to their universal search results. Apparently, starting next week, links to blogs will show up next to images, news, books, local maps and video. This is awesome news for anyone that has a blog. Already, I garner quite a bit of search engine traffic from Google.com [...]
December 13th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Google Design With Comic Sans
All Graphic Design has posted a funny picture of Google if it were designed with the font, ComicSans. The funny aspect of this is the actual search terms combined with the results. The search terms “comic sans sucks” brings up a number of search results, including a spoof from Google.com themselves. Comic Sans is not [...]
November 27th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Steve Ballmer On Search And More
This is a video clip of John Battelle asking Steve Ballmer questions relating to search. Steve describes search the way he and Microsoft sees it. In his outline of a successful search strategy, he pretty much describes the way Google does it. Go figure! It’s an interesting interview that goes beyond search. For example, John [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Google Image Search vs Iconlet
Iconlet is a search engine for you guessed it, icons. The front page of iconlet looks as simple as the Google homepage and seems to be just as functional. Iconlet appears to have a large database of icon images but I was disappointed when I only discovered 11 search results for the term RSS. However, [...]
November 1st, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
I Don’t Know - Google It
Nowadays, thats typically the response I hear when I ask someone a question. Why is that? Neuroscientist Ian Robertson recently polled 3,000 people and discovered younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal information. 87% of his respondents over age 50 couldn’t recite a relatives birth date, while less than 40 [...]
October 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued