The Google Archive
Google Scholar
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Google Scholar is a new beta search tool from Google that provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Continue reading
Google Increases Search Share
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Extending its dominance in the search market, Google grew its share of queries in April at the expense of rivals Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask.com. Google U.S. search query share in April grew to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent in March, comScore announced last Thursday. Google accomplished this although the number ... Continue reading
Google Indexing Scanned PDFs
Friday, March 13th, 2009Google has rarely included scanned documents in its search results because it had no way to determine the nature of the content, but that's about to change. The search engine giant says it will use optical character recognition software to make it possible for Web surfers to search any Web-hosted ... Continue reading
New Language API from Google
Friday, March 6th, 2009Google has introduced tools for translating blocks of text in Web pages into multiple languages. The language application programming interface can also identify a particular language before translation. The API makes use of the Web 2.0 technology Ajax and covers 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, ... Continue reading
Tips for Conducting an Effective Podcast Interview
Saturday, February 21st, 20091. Prepare Questions in Advance Prepare a list of questions prior to the interview, contemplate possible follow-up questions based on the expected responses. Create a list of notes along with the questions that are ... Continue reading
Buy Google Ads on AOL
Monday, February 2nd, 2009AOL on Monday launched a program that lets companies use Google's advertising system to buy ads targeted to AOL sites. The program stems from AOL's 2005 agreement with Google, in which the search leader expanded its partnership with AOL and agreed to invest in the company. It's the first time ... Continue reading
Business Accountability Part 2: Both Sides Now
Thursday, January 29th, 2009(This is the second of a five-part series on accountability. The first was posted here last Thursday. It should be read to the tune of Both Sides Now.) How well do you delegate? Are you as good at giving credit as blame? How do you react when you ask somebody to ... Continue reading
Users Frustrated with Google Analytics
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Googles part. Most affected users reported problems on ... Continue reading