Google, Click Killer Linguist
Similar to how googling for “jazz albums 1965” returns a stripe of album covers – along with similar queries for books, movies, or video games – the simple “minute” search query reveals how… Read more »
Category: search engines
Search Advertising: Not Always On Point, On Purpose
I just saw this ad while googling for Salesforce Chatter adoption vs. the increasingly ubiquitous Slack, and was stumped for a second before realizing what was going on, so I… Read more »
Apps and Shortcuts to Power Search All Document Types [Windows 10]
After a lot of trial and error, here’s the combination of Windows programs that I use to search very quickly through mountains of documents. Overall, I pick the tool most… Read more »
Guaranteed Google Acquisition of the Year: Splunk
You read it first: Google is going to acquire Splunk in the next 18 months, and it’s going to cost them. They’ll ship it as an appliance for enterprise customers… Read more »
Stemming Gone Wrong
Look, Google, I actually know how to spell Chile, ok? Stemming “Chile” into “Chili” and polluting my queries with recipes and rock bands that have NOTHING TO DO WHATSOEVER with… Read more »
Is That What They Say?
Seems Anil Dash is actually widely analogous. Who Knew? Judgment passed on you by the internet can be worse. Nice work, Philipp Lenssen.
What’s Going On with Adwords and Adsense?
I can only describe my attempts at improving our performance with Adsense as intensely frustrating. First there was the poor, canned customer support. The incomplete reporting (want to track ad… Read more »
What Comes After a 10:1 GOOG Stock Split?
This graph is definitely impressive. Kudos to the Google team for creating so much wealth, and to people buying at IPO time. I’m not one of them, I thought it… Read more »
A Critical Mass of Advertisers Makes Contextual Ads More Relevant
Andrew Goodman: "I can attest to having been extremely frustrated doing web searches trying to find things like software, templates, standard documents, and legal agreements to help me grow my… Read more »
20 Questions with Gary Flake, Head of Yahoo Research Labs
In an interview with Gary Price: "The beautiful thing about a relational database is that its structure tells you a lot about what is important. Database designers have been brilliant… Read more »