Google’s search information paradox
The very fact that Google are even talking about keeping our personal search data longer than eighteen months demonstrates their thinking. If you want personal search to work, then the likes of thee & me need to share more personal information with the search engines…
There’s no way around with this particular search information paradox, one [...]
Search to get a social Sproose up?
If I had more time, I’d have written a similar web application to Sproose myself. It’s that next logical step, and it’s got that immediate it’s-about-damn-time factor about it. What am I talkin’ about? I’m talkin’ about search with a splash of democracy about it, that’s what…
I happened upon Sproose, the user-powered search engine while [...]
Google Maps finds AdSense
There was this talk of people painting their company logos and contact details onto the roofs of their premises when Google announced Google Maps way back when. More recently, Google released Google MyMaps, giving us the tools to create outlines of the land and property we own, or where we live, or maybe the route [...]
Google Universal no panacea for all search
When you have that one hot service, it’s always tempting to push everything else through it. Tempting, because for you, the service provider, it’s simpler. But for the customer, what’s easier for a service provider like Google doesn’t always translate into an easier service for you…
Having read through Gord Hotchkiss’s analysis of Google Universal search, [...]
2-4-1 keyword listing on Google SERP
Ever curious as to the circuitous route some of the visitors to my ‘blog take en route, I’m often left in various states of mind…
Sometimes pleased, sometimes not so. Sometimes, how they arrive is as irrelevant as the search phrase they used, because I’m not what they’re looking for.
But then one search phrase piqued my [...]




