Posts with tag ”google”
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The death of Google Reader
A short time after the shutdown of WaSP, it was announced today that Google Reader will be closed on July 1st. While there are replacements available for the RSS reader itself, I can’t help but thinking of the larger picture.
Content overdrive
Historically there has been always been a steady increase on connectivity. This has led to all sorts of innovation and progress.
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 are made on the web due to 55 trillion links in HTML pages. That amount of links almost match the synaptic wiring of the human brain, but unlike the brain, the web double its capacity every two years.
Google adds more caffeine
Google has just updated their indexing machine, calling the new system Caffeine. To honor its name, the index is refreshed much faster 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 is expanding their toolkit every day and this morning saw the release of Google Knol, a service quite reminiscent of Wikipedia where the term Knol refers to a unit of knowledge.
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 buzzing all over about it. Due to an unexpected amount of users the service was temporarily crippled, but now it seems to be up and running.