BIT320 Remix: google Archives

AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads - New York Times

People say this is a bad thing but if Google gives in: the end of whitespace and customer anger begins.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

Icahn's issue with Google

Icahn seeks to derail Google as partner of AOL

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Google offers mobile phone version of Gmail e-mail - Yahoo! News

Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/17/2005 | Original | Archive

Google offers mobile phone version of Gmail e-mail

Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/17/2005 | Original | Archive

Time Warner Enters Into Talks With Google

Time Warner Inc. ended talks with Microsoft Corp. Friday and entered into exclusive negotiations with Google Inc. over a $1 billion investment and a broader advertising partnership with America Online, executives close to the talks said.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/17/2005 | Original | Archive

Google and AOL are in talks again!

Time Warner in talks with AOL to broaden their partnership, which might give Google an edge over Microsoft.

In del.icio.us/supriya, 12/16/2005 | Original | Archive

Google's new music search feature

Google is adding a new feature to its website which would allow the users to get information about artists, online reviews and retailer information for particular songs or albums

In del.icio.us/supriya, 12/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Google to Launch Music Content Feature - Yahoo! News

Response to interest in music

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Building your Own Search Engine

There’s been a lot of talk about search engines and Google’s domination. We discussed in class how MSN is even thinking of paying people to use its search engine. Amazon is changing things areound. It’s offering to lease a complex internet search service so people can build their own search engines. It will provide access too ver 5 billion webpages. In essence

“Instead of a map of the world, Amazon has a map of the Web—a database of the Web and map of the relationships between them. And [the company] expects people can do interesting things with that information.”

I’m not sure if people will utilize this service. Even if you have access to over 5 billion webpages, will it really be as effective s google? I’m not seeing the benefits of having your own search engine built to your needs.

In zee124, 12/14/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Hotwiring Your Search Engine

I think this directly relates to what we're trying to do by linking with our blogs. The new job is called SEO and it's worth a lot of money. Want to work from home?

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Gmail File Space

Gmail File Space (gspace) v0.1: This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gm

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

What time is it?

Click anywhere on the map to see what the local time is

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Analytics

Get Stats about your Site

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Analytics

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

What time is it?

Excellent google map driven world time tool

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Gmail Space

Firefox extension that allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage.

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Plugged In Here, Plugged Out There

Shady and SuperMatt have been talking about firefox plug-ins or the lack-there-of on the B-School computers. Yeah, I agree. This is really annoying, especially because I can’t stand using IE anymore.

However, I do understand the reason for the lack of plug-ins. Shady mentioned that:

“Bud talked about how the business school freezes programs on their computers because the more you mess with them makes all sorts of complications”

The type of missing plug-ins I run into the most while on the b-school computers are things like flash and active-x content While flash is relatively secure, I do know that active-x controls have the possibility to include nasty little viruses and what not. So I can understand b-school IT not wanting to deal with things like this.

wonder why this isn’t a standard practice around U of M. I know for a fact that the computers in the fishbowl (specifically the Macs) are slated for “full use”. Meaning any plug-ins can be installed. They even are open enough to the point where you can install programs. These computers are administered by ITCS. So it seems like ITCS has made the choice of having more open and easy-to-use yet more difficult to maintain. I personally like the ITCS approach better. Maybe with the advent of new OSes and programs we can increase security without sacrificing useability.

In Matt's Musings, 12/10/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Plug-in Problem Continued

Shady Waters recently mentions having problems with FireFox plug-ins wondering:

Does anyone else find that the Firefox in the Bschool always needs plug ins to run certain sites? What are the plug ins for and why aren’t they already installed? I run the sites on my computer back and how and I never have problems?

problem all the time, it seems that whenever there is more than basic content in WebPages FireFox needs some sort of plug-in to make the page function. This often requires me to load the plug in and then restart FireFox or refresh the pages. All of this is a pain especially if I am in a hurry - I know that Kevin and Aga would suggest I just stick with IE. I think that FireFox users would be best served if when installing the FireFox browser we had the option to install many if not all of the available FireFox plug-ins. If this is not possible is does anyone know of a website that exists where I can download many of the common ones, to save myself grief? Normally FireFox is the most convenient and best internet explore, however in this regard there is room for improvement.

In SuperMatt, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

MSN Search

I am currently adding to my blog a mile high in the sky. I’m currently flying out to Redmond, WA to interview with Microsoft. I am interviewing for a job in the MSN search division. Unlike Windows and the Office line where Microsoft it is a monopolist, MSN search is at the bottom of the ranks well below the current leader Google, and other established players like yahoo. Microsoft made a mistake a few ago thinking that there was no money in search and web advertising. Now that Google is cleaning up in this area. Microsoft is making a strong push to gain share of this market. The good news about this division is that the only way to go is up, as opposed to other areas which need to fight to hold share. The downside of working in the division is that Bill Gates is putting lots of emphasis trying to make MSN search and leader and he is expecting great things. Either way I’m looking forward to my first visit of Seattle.

In SuperMatt, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Corner Bookstores Stare Down Google - Forbes.com

Poor corner bookstores

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive

Open-Source Browser's New Version Comes Loaded With Options

Firefox is playing with fire and not getting burned...but are these options cutting edge? Try out and see.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

I’m foxy and I’m all fire

Reviews of the new Mozilla 1.5 Open Source Browser have been generally good. With live bookmarks, somewhat alike to the google reader function of automatic updating, Firefox uses RSS feeds to be your one stop to everything you could ever need webpage wise. Moreover it’s Clear Private Data button allows you to clear your history with just one click of a button, improving privacy options, especially for shared computers, if you remember to use it. It seems that with every browser and web offering, all the functionality is moving away from the toolbar to the page itself and the key seems to be simplicity and a convenient and easy to follow user interface. I’m looking forward, however, to the release of IE7…it’s coming…

In Pink Footsie, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Garages have mythic power in Silicon Valley

HP, Apple, Google all got their start in a garage

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Study: Google users wealthier, more Net savvy

U.S. residents who prefer Google’s search engine tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online, a new study has found.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

AOL off the selling block

Microsoft, Google still in talks with AOL

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

Will Google's bubble burst?

Google stock: Bargain or bubble?

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

IE flaw gooses Google

IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Suggest

It automatically suggests completed answers. Check it out.

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/30/2005 | Original | Archive

An ant named after Google | News.blog | CNET News.com

Using Google's Ajax technology with Ant data

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/29/2005 | Original | Archive

Find Me Call Me Google Maps and Talk Mash up

Google maps + phones = love

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/29/2005 | Original | Archive

A Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

The original Stanford presentation authored by Larry Page. A piece of history that Stanford is clearly proud of. Includes the basis of the Google PageRank algorithm. Very interesting article

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Big Google Becomes Big Target

Long considered the David to Microsoft's Goliath, Google is increasingly being thought of as a Goliath itself

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Video

New video search service offered by google.

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

CNN.com - Google tool maps out shopping trips - Nov 22, 2005

Google adds a new tool to Froogle to allow shoppers to map out shopping trips based on which stores are carrying desired items

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/22/2005 | Original | Archive

Jon Udell: Dueling simplicities

The key point here is the creation of a standard way to interact with a database using XML-based protocols. This has the potential to be really huge. We could do bit320 without the whole learning XSQL thing.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/22/2005 | Original | Archive

Google boosts world library

Google donates $3M to help scan more rare documents

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 11/22/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo! Wins Search Victory - Forbes.com

Yahoo vs. Google continues

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Help : Add to Google button

your website readers can add your feed right to their google homepage or reader

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/20/2005 | Original | Archive

Google's Name Game

Google Print changes to Google Book Searcg

In del.icio.us/supriya, 11/20/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Print: Google set to display books

Google Print will now provide the entire content of books and government documents on the internet

In del.icio.us/supriya, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Holiday Logos

view archives of google's special holiday logos

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair

"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Technology Technology news, Times Online

Another google service

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive

A VC: Google Is Lame

But in many of their recent initiatives, Google has introduced a delay between submit and display. And that's just lame in this day and age of instant recall.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive

Google: Simple does not equal Pretty

Zee comments on her experience with Google News.

“I went to Google news for the first time today and was a little surprised. It had the articles in most demand from top sources and had topics which were most read, but it wasn’t aeshetically pleasing.”

I too have wondered about Google and its asthetics. Personally I think the Google homepage is brilliant: simple, clean, and effective. However, if you take the time to delve deeper into Google’s pages or other services you quickly realize that they are masters at searching, but not so adept at aesthetics. They have grown enough now to justify hiring dedicated designers. So why does Google still look messy?

ason, I think, is because of the sheer volume of information Google returns. People expect Google to be fast and acccurate. This means that Google has to cram a whole lot of information on as few as pages as possible. People would rather sift one or two messy pages than through fifty pretty but useless pages. So this means their pages look jumbled due to the sheer volume of information. Though I question if this is the only reason. It would seem as if there were ways to better organize it and make the information more visually appealing. Maybe Google’s too busy growing like crazy to realize. Or maybe people find Google too useful to care. I’m not sure. Either way though, I’ll still keep using Google. Even if while using it, I’m hopefully cursing that they’d put a little more effort into asthetics.

In Matt's Musings, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Plot twist: Google book rentals

Paper reports search firm is exploring renting new books online for 10% of the list price

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive

News.Google.Com

I went to Google news for the first time today and was a little surprised. It had the articles in most demand from top sources and had topics which were most read, but it wasn’t aeshetically pleasing. I thought Google would spend more time making the site more user friendly, but the articles seem all jumbled together. Does anyone else read google news?

In zee124, 11/15/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Google offers new mobile mapping software - Wireless World - MSNBC.com

Map on my phone? I like that

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 11/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Scholar makes me do a little dance

I must say this new University catalog on Google is making my life so much easier. Without needing to go to the Kresge databases, library, Graduate library, UGLi and I could keep going, everything is now at my fingertips. I came across Google Scholar as I was researching articles for my CSIB project on the wireless telecomm industry and next to the links I noticed “availability at the University of Michigan” now how cool is that? I love this new digitization project.

Moreover not only are there links to PDF formats of the papers in question but also the various sources of their publishing (scholarly) are all listed after a brief description of each link. But I’m not done yet. Also by the various published sources there is also a link to other scholarly articles that have cited the above research. I’m sorry but I’m just excited, it’s centralization and convenience at its best, but more importantly: it’s value that I as a customer truly appreciate.

In Pink Footsie, 11/15/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Google Maps Mania

An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

In del.icio.us/kevlers, 11/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Web 2.0 Exit… what is that?

Suggests that everyone doing Web 2.0 projects is really just doing unpaid product development for Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Maybe. Some of the commenters argue that there are viable revenue models.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Maps

I found my house on satellite!!

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 11/10/2005 | Original | Archive

Google's new ad-referral program

Through the Referral Program, Google will reward AdSense participants that refer other small Web publishers and bloggers to the program.

In del.icio.us/supriya, 11/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Technology power taken to another level: Google running for president?

Google opens a new office in DC to get more power for its vision.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 11/07/2005 | Original | Archive

Don't Fear Google - Forbes.com

Google's book scanning doesn't violate the "fair use" law... perhaps the "fair use" law could stand to be updated in the face of new technology

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Paying Up For Google Maps Mash up

Will Google Maps remain free?

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only

"you may receive 70-80% of revenues generated by ads on your blog, but the reality is that your blog increases the value of the Google ad network by a greater amount than the revenues you generate", so Google is not 'fairly' sharing its network effects.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Online versions of Windows, Office unveiled

Microsoft announced online enhancements to its Windows operating system and other popular software programs, hoping to defuse a growing threat from Google and other fast-moving challengers.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 11/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo revamps map service in duel with Google

Web portal adds more flexible driving directions, merchant locations

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 11/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo revamps map service in duel with Google - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

in an attempt to out-do Google, Yahoo introduces upgraded map service featuring the ability to get directions to several places at once

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Will Return to Scanning Copyrighted Library Books

U of M books continued to be scanned

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/01/2005 | Original | Archive

The Secrets of Building Links and Increasing PageRank

Google Page Rank

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/01/2005 | Original | Archive

IBM and Google team up to make Corporate Searches Easier

Sometimes info gets lost in different departments, let me find it for you...

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/29/2005 | Original | Archive

Microsoft joins search party

Microsoft to launch online book search effort

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Blog Search

i just discovered this outlet of google search... why am i not surprised?

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 10/26/2005 | Original | Archive

'Google Base' a new eBay?

Google tests flea market feature

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/25/2005 | Original | Archive

Goggle Maps Pedometer

Uses Google Maps to calculate exactly how far you traveled in your walk, jog, or biking trip

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive

Google spam suite primer

Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive

jb’s blog is not #1

Well, I hate to break the trend, but I’m not #1 on google. Kevin and Matt had better luck. When I search “jb’s blog” on google, my blog comes up as #6. Despite the disappointment of not being first, #6 is not bad! Like Matt, I didn’t use my full name in my blog. I used just “jb.” Perhaps “jb” is popular enough to significantly decrease my odds of being the most popular.

I’m going to try the search again next week. Hopefully I move up. Either way, it’s pretty exciting to see your stuff pop up in a google search. Give it a try.

In jb's blog, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Google stock jumps

Google stock surges after profit sails past expectations

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/23/2005 | Original | Archive

SuperMatt is #1 2

After reading Kevin’s #1 blog I thought I’d check the Google-ability of my blog. I was happy to find out that when I searched “SuperMatt” on Google my blog was the first to populate. Unlike Kevin, I have decided not to use my real name in the blog so if I Google my name nothing related to my blog appears. I don’t think any harm can come out of having my name attached to my blog, but to me better safe than sorry.

In SuperMatt, 10/22/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

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A remixable web learning project at Michigan's Ross School of Business

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