Posts with tag ”google”
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The death of Google Reader
A short time after the shutdown of WaSP, another familiar piece of the web is being escorted behind the shed. Google announced today that Google Reader will close on July 1st.
Content overdrive
Historically, there has always been one reliable direction of connectivity: faster. Faster ships, faster trains, faster wires, faster ways of telling someone on the other side of the planet that something terrible has happened or what you had for breakfast.
The Google age
There was a time when finding out Abraham Lincoln’s birthday required actual effort. You’d walk into a library, hunt down an encyclopedia that smelled faintly of dust, flip through hundreds of pages until you found the answer.
Storage and data overload
Each day, an estimated 100 billion clicks ricochet around the web, following some 55 trillion links buried in HTML pages. That’s roughly in the neighborhood of the number of synaptic connections in the human brain.
Google adds more caffeine
Google has just upgraded its vast, humming indexing machine and appropriately enough called the new system Caffeine. The name fits. Google’s index is now refreshed much more frequently than before.
Keeping your Google juice
Some time ago, a collection of newspapers decided they deserved better rankings in Google. Not because they had mastered SEO, built better websites, or done anything particularly clever.
Examining Google Knol
Google’s toolbox keeps getting bigger. Search, maps, mail, advertising, analytics… Apparently world domination is best approached one convenient web service at a time.
Blogosphere five years after 9/11
Five years ago, the world changed. So did the web. On September 11 2001, millions of people did what we had already learned to do whenever something terrible happened: we went online looking for answers.
The beauty of simplicity in interfaces
Over the years, we’ve seen the birth and death of several design patterns for graphical user interfaces.
Google Analytics and cookies
A few days after the launch of Google Analytics, the web is already buzzing about Google’s shiny new toy. So many people rushed through the door that the service promptly buckled under the weight. Nothing says successful launch quite like making the product temporarily unusable.