In an effort to show that the term “googling” isn’t ubiquitous for search Google is trying to stifle the press from using it.
They’ve asked very politely that the various wonks and journalist out there not use the term “googling” repeatedly to refer to generic search. Such as “did you google that chick” or “I […]

Dan over at Jack of All Blogs has taken up the question of what ya’ll think of SEO (search engine optimization).
Good thing?  Bad thing?  Does it make you gnash your teeth or whistle a sweet, sweet tune while thumbing through a stack of 20s? Or is it a non issue?
I’ve already weighed in, drop by […]

Want to have some fun with everyone’s favorite search engine (verifiable, I’ve got the logs to prove it)? Then this open licensed piece of fluff is probably for you.
Learn some interesting, entertaining, and humorous things to do with (and to) google over at the below site.
More on the trip to Canada later (maybe with […]

Out of Boston comes some news on a sage decision from Google.
Instead of foolishly creating its own browser, Google has decided to rely on the browsers of others.  Maybe Microsoft could take a page from that book and focus on core competencies instead of constantly chasing the Next Big Thing ™.
BostonHerald.com - Technology News: Google […]

It looks like the IT crowd will soon be able to have their cake and eat it, too.  A small concern named Open Document Foundation Inc. is releasing a plugin for Microsoft’s Office that allows read/write to ODF formatted files.  This gets rid of a roadblock on the way toward open office document formats, as […]

I can’t even bring myself to come up with a funnier article header than that.  And this isn’t even a humor post!  It’s from CNET, not The Onion.
Also the quote  “For Microsoft, we always want to be in the lead, making the breakthroughs,” Gates said.?  Priceless.  And here I thought they generally just glommed […]

It seems that Google is hiring UI people now, too.  At least I’d assume that’s why they’ve picked up the maintainer of Vim.  Without getting into it too much Vim is an improvement over the old Vi (visual editor) for Unix, hence Vim short for Vi Improved.
One of the things Vi and later Vim are […]

It looks like Google has won it’s court case over alleged Usenet archiving “violations”.  Some author had put his work up on Usenet, we can only assume to troll for people to “violate” his copyright.  When Google then archived the Usenet post, he sued for a reem of offences.
The court dismissed all of the complaints […]

Google has accidentaly let slip one of it’s powerpoint presentations on an upcoming product.  Ironically enough, this product is a campaign to convince you that you should store all of your information not on your harddrive, but over on google’s servers.
I think I’ll stick to keeping my information on my own fallable 8 drive array.  […]

Let me explain.  One of Microsoft’s favorite marketing ploys is to pre-announce a product in a market they’d like to compete in months, years, or even indefinately (in the case it’s never produced) before they actualy come out with a product, just to kill the competition.
Because hey, if MS is releasing XYZ 2000, why buy […]