Goofing Around: Google and The Real-Time Web

I remember writing — and it wasn’t that long ago! — about how search engine indexing took several weeks. Four to six weeks to get your page in a search engine was considered pretty...

Google Rolls Out an URL Shortener

Does the world need another URL shortener? REALLY? Google thinks so. So earlier this week it announced a new URL shortening service, Goo.gl, available at http://goo.gl/. (If case you’re a...

Facebook’s New Privacy Settings and Search

I’ve now seen a couple of different comments on Facebook now regarding the new search indexing that’s now on by default for all Facebook users. From what I can tell though, there’s...

Floating on the Google Wave

I’ve had a Google Wave account for a little while now and have tried to use it more and more. The challenge has been that I haven’t had a lot of other people I know and work with on...

Google on fence about making black friends

New Google ads cleverly tell people's stories through only their Google searches. But there's a problem. (...)