Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against...
Three's a Trend: The Decline of Google Search Quality Noticing a pattern here? Paul Kedrosky, Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail : Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyw...
Google's Microsoft Moment I’m not sure Google’s new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but...
A Pre-History of the Google Browser Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I’...
Google and Theory of Mind Theory of mind is that thing that a two-year-old lacks, which makes her think that covering her eyes means you can’t see her. It’s the thing a chimpanzee has,...
Google Pack Mobile Google’s changed a lot in the past few years, going from underselling their efforts to shamelessly promoting themselves as leaders, even when it’s leadersh...
A Moral Problem From eWeek’s “Upcoming” section, which I’d praised a few weeks ago , comes this interview with Java creator James Gosling . The key quote, for me: Of Goo...
Web History's History I found some really interesting responses to the launch of Google Web History that are all well worth visiting. CNET’s Margaret Kane has a roundup of ne...
Google Web History - Good and Scary Many years ago, when the web was a simpler place, one of the scariest monsters conjured up to describe the privacy threats that lurked on the Internet was the...
Sustainability Is A Feature A little while ago, my friend Michael Sippey, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing the other day , sent me a link to the new Google Voice Local Search ....
Portalization Proceeds A few years ago, I wrote a post called Portalization which showed a Yahoo homepage screenshot with certain services grayed-out, as an indicator of which corr...
How Matt Haughey Beat Google Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers . The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was sh...
Google Office: Google Apps for Your Domain The first version of Google Apps for Your Domain has been released, offering hosted applications that provide free, ad-supported services including email, c...
Upon the demise of Netscape Now that Netscape’s more or less officially dead, it occurs to me that it might be worthwhile for Google to bankroll the Mozilla Foundation , either by donati...
