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5 essential Google Labs features to improve your Google Mail experience
A little while ago, Google launched "Mail Goggles" as a Google Mail Labs feature, which generated lots of press and blog exposure for the fact that you could modify your Google Mail interface using Google Labs products. I thought it might be worth taking a look through to see what were they really useful Google Labs extras you could add to Gmail. Here are 5 Google Mail Labs features that I've got enabled. Forgotten Attachment Detector Everybody who has ever...

Read the full post - Published December 1, 2008 in Google, Usability - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Top 75 British newspaper RSS feeds in Google Reader
Hooray - some good figures for the newspaper industry for a change! This time last year I made a list of the 100 most popular British newspaper feeds in Google Reader, and I thought it was worth updating the figures. The headline is that the number of RSS subscribers to the popular newspaper content has pretty much doubled. Last year, the top 75 feeds added up to represent 249,269 subscriptions. This time around the top 75 accounts for 488,828 subscriptions....

Read the full post - Published November 28, 2008 in Google, Newspapers, RSS - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can't get breaking news right
We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I've just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well. Google does have some news results inserted into the one word search for 'mumbai', but they are not in the top slot. Searching for 'india'...

Read the full post - Published November 26, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

8 Search APIs for Hack Days
I spent most of yesterday at The Guardian's first ever internal Hack Day. I gave one of the short five minute 'lightning' talks that got the event kicked off. I wanted to outline a few of the search related APIs out there that might prove useful as people put their hacks together. Here's the written down version... Google AJAX Search API I'll start with the big one - the Google AJAX Search API. This lets you put Google Search in...

Read the full post - Published November 14, 2008 in Google, Search, The Guardian, Yahoo - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 9
I've been writing a series of posts about getting site search right based on my presentation at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam this year In the last part I started looking at some examples where search user experience goes wrong. In order to entice the masses away from Google, a site search needs to be on the top of its game, and avoid things like intrusive adverts, opening unnecessary new windows, and providing an inconsistent experience. Another sure...

Read the full post - Published November 13, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 8
A couple of weeks back I began a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. As well as looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnails and information Google can't obtain, 'advanced' search, and following some positive European examples, I've been looking at areas of the user experience where designers need to show caution. Today I want to start looking at some examples of...

Read the full post - Published November 12, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 7
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts based on an expanded version of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam at the end of September. There, I was talking about "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google", and getting site search right for news. I've looked at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images, information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search,...

Read the full post - Published November 11, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

US newspapers in the Google time tunnel: Part 1
Yesterday I published some screenshots of the 2001 versions of UK newspaper websites, as linked to by Google's newly re-available 2001 index. At the same time as doing my research on UK newspaper success with social media, I was also looking at the social media success of a range of US newspapers. I thought it might be fun to peer back through the Google time tunnel and see how 25 American newspapers looked and ranked online in 2001. Arizona Republic...

Read the full post - Published October 7, 2008 in Google, Newspapers - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

UK newspapers in the Google time tunnel
With everyone keenly paging through Google's 2001 search index, I thought it might be interesting to see how our British national newspapers were faring on Google back at the turn of the decade, and how their sites are represented in the Internet Archive. Daily Express Searching for the Daily Express in 2001 turned up express.co.uk at number 3 on Google. The homepage that Google links to shows that the attention of the Express was firmly turned to the Sarah Payne...

Read the full post - Published October 6, 2008 in Google, Newspapers - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Goodbye Google Eye
"Oh goodbye google eye... Goodbye goodbye goodbye google eye" No, not a reaction to news that Google's Street View Spycams have been banished from Britain, but a chunk of lyrics from a 1960s hit called "Google Eye" that I stumbled upon the other day. Written by John D. Loudermilk it was recorded in the UK by The Nashville Teens, and came out in 1964 on the Decca label, catalogue number F12000. The song is about search in a roundabout way...

Read the full post - Published September 29, 2008 in Google, Music, Nostalgia - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Google error reports - non-geeks need not apply!

Published September 7, 2008 in Google - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Mac users very unwelcome at the Google Chrome download party

Published September 3, 2008 in Google, Greece, Localisation, Web - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google Street View spycams spotted in Walthamstow

Published July 3, 2008 in Google, Walthamstow - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

More thoughts on Google's sitelinks algorithm

Published June 22, 2008 in Google, Search - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Is this evidence that Google hand-edits 'sitelinks' for small sites?

Published June 21, 2008 in Google, Search - 5 comments so far   Add your comment 

Castrol's Euro 2008 Performance Index not performing on Google AdWords

Published June 14, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Google, Web, Widgets - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

There is the BBC's new media overspend...and then there is Google

Published June 1, 2008 in BBC, Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google News and the missing Mayor from Henley

Published May 27, 2008 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Newspaper widget review: Google Gadgets

Published May 13, 2008 in Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, The Sun, Widgets - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 6 - Google vs The Search Engine All-Stars

Published April 13, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Newspapers, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 5 - The Newspapers vs Google

Published April 12, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Google, Newspapers, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

7 years of Google April Fool jokes

Published April 1, 2008 in Google - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google hijacks traffic from newspaper site search

Published March 31, 2008 in Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, Popular, The Guardian, The Sun, The Times - 7 comments so far   Add your comment 

The online fall-out of the Daily Express apology to Madeleine McCann's family

Published March 19, 2008 in Daily Express, Google, Media, Newspapers, Search, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Making the most of blog comments: Part 4 - Do people read comments via RSS?

Published February 26, 2008 in Blogging, Bloglines, Google, RSS - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Google blocks access to the Biased BBC blog via search

Published January 30, 2008 in BBC, Google, Search - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google DMCA complaint follow-up

Published January 12, 2008 in Blogging, Google - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Issuing a DMCA take-down notice to Google over splogger

Published January 7, 2008 in Blogging, Google - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

BBC RSS subscription league table for English & Scottish football teams

Published November 23, 2007 in BBC, Football, Google, RSS - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Top 50 BBC Podcasts in Google Reader

Published November 22, 2007 in BBC, Google, RSS - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Top 100 BBC RSS feeds in Google Reader

Published November 21, 2007 in BBC, Google, RSS - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

British newspaper RSS subscriptions in Google Reader

Published November 5, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, RSS - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Top 100 British newspaper feeds in Google Reader

Published November 2, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, RSS - 5 comments so far   Add your comment 

Pavarotti and Jane Tomlinson's deaths test search

Published September 7, 2007 in Chipwrapper, Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Shonky email etiquette after 18 months away from my BBC email address

Published August 8, 2007 in BBC, Google, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

BBC iPlayer search plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and an iPlayer Google Toolbar button

Published August 2, 2007 in BBC, Google, Search, iPlayer - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Gary Lineker isn't leaving comments here

Published August 1, 2007 in Football, Google, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

ITV advertise using the keyword 'iPlayer' on Google and Yahoo!

Published July 28, 2007 in BBC, Google, Yahoo, iPlayer - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google Toolbar buttons for British newspapers including headline feeds

Published July 19, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

BBC related custom Google Toolbar buttons

Published July 16, 2007 in BBC, Google - No comments yet   Add your comment 

A level playing field for the BBC on Google AdWords?

Published July 6, 2007 in BBC, Daily Telegraph, Google - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Quickly setting the default Google Analytics dashboard view to show a week or 48 hours

Published June 25, 2007 in Google - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Today is the deadline for opting out of Feedburner handing all of their usage data to Google

Published June 15, 2007 in Google, RSS - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google search results promoting YouTube's Premier League copyright infringement

Published June 13, 2007 in Football, Google, Search, YouTube - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Twitter polluting Google search results for news topics

Published June 6, 2007 in BBC, CNN, France 24, Google, RSS - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

How much did shingles cost in 1963?

Published May 18, 2007 in Google, Music, Search - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Questionable eBay adverts on Google "Jewish cemetery" searches

Published May 14, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

DirectGov's indirect use of Google Ads

Published April 10, 2007 in Google, eGovernment - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Will virtual representations of sporting events become part of the online rights economy?

Published April 5, 2007 in Austria, Games, Google, Greece, Web - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google putting Wikipedia extracts at #1 - for Bruce Hornsby anyway

Published March 29, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

My 'biased' view of the Biased BBC blog - part two

Published March 15, 2007 in BBC, Google, Search - 6 comments so far   Add your comment 

Where do you go to complain about spammy Google adverts in the UK

Published March 12, 2007 in Google, OFCOM - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Turkish YouTube ban unleashes the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast within

Published March 8, 2007 in Google, Greece, Turkey, YouTube - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Google's anti-American stance on spelling the Habsburgs will upset Conservapedia

Published February 28, 2007 in Austria, Google, Web - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google kills the political Googlebomb - well, unless you are French

Published January 30, 2007 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Yahoo! door-stepping ex-Google Answers researchers

Published December 7, 2006 in Google, Web, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Sitemaps in search engine news

Published November 16, 2006 in Google, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

High rankings for Wikipedia doesn't mean the net has been hi-jacked by teenagers

Published October 30, 2006 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google Talk's latest update doesn't behave gracefully offline

Published October 19, 2006 in Application design, Google - 47 comments so far   Add your comment 

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Google's personal search services

Published October 10, 2006 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

I'm loving Google's Blogger Web Comments for Firefox extension

Published October 7, 2006 in Google, Web - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Using Bloglines to snoop on people's private Gmail

Published October 1, 2006 in Google, Popular, Web - 6 comments so far   Add your comment 

Erratic search quality on Google Earth

Published September 21, 2006 in Google, Greece, Localisation - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Adsense of humour

Published September 10, 2006 in Google, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google.co.uk in Greek

Published May 15, 2006 in Google, Greece, Localisation, Search - 6 comments so far   Add your comment 

Testing Google Reader - part two

Published May 12, 2006 in Google, Product review - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Testing Google Reader

Published May 11, 2006 in Google, Product review - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Searching For Google Talk

Published August 24, 2005 in Google, Search, Yahoo - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Google and Yahoo! Playing With Video Search

Published April 17, 2005 in Google, Search, Yahoo - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Adobe? Never heard of them says Google

Published May 14, 2004 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Googling for ever

Published May 6, 2004 in Google, Newspapers - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Gmail backlash?

Published April 2, 2004 in Google - 5 comments so far   Add your comment 

A positive Internet story? Gmail cometh

Published April 1, 2004 in Evening Standard, Google - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google News Alerts Email Beta

Published August 7, 2003 in Google - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Gormanwhack

Published August 3, 2003 in Google - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Hacking, all you need is Google - and for people to be stupid

Published August 1, 2003 in Google, Newspapers - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Published July 5, 2003 in Google, Politics, Search - 13 comments so far   Add your comment 

Google blogging

Published February 17, 2003 in Blogging, Google - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Googlebot FAQ

Published February 17, 2003 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google PageRank - neither democracy nor corporate muscle

Published January 24, 2003 in Google - No comments yet   Add your comment 

SearchKing vs Google round 12

Published January 10, 2003 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google log file analysis

Published January 7, 2003 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Google in forgiving mood to start the New Year

Published January 1, 2003 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Danny Sullivan interview - and Google's Xmas turkey

Published December 24, 2002 in Google, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

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