Tag: Google
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Is Google trying to kill YouTube?
If you watch YouTube (as I do regularly) you’ve likely noticed a few changes. Specifically, you should be noticing a lot more ads. To me, the limited ads were one of its attractions, aside from the breadth of information you can find on the site. Like many YouTubers I think, I have a short attention…
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The downside of search engines
It’s no secret that my blog’s hits are way down compared to five or ten years ago. Trying to figure out why this is has been hard, and hasn’t been aided by my general apathy. There are days when my hits are in the single digits. I recently saw a one-day spike of 97 page…
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DuckDuckGo is a better search engine
Google pretty much owns the search engine market, but why? Perhaps it was because they were the first to do it well. In the old days of search engines when we were forced to use sites like Lycos and AltaVista, finding useful stuff on the web was excruciating, requiring you to go through many pages…
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It’s time to use a virtual private network
As a tech guy, it’s rare for me to find technology and politics intersecting. Both are my passions. Last week though it did and at the suggestion of my wife (actually her friend) we subscribed to a virtual private network service. Why? Well, if you live in the United States it’s hard to miss the news…
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Is blogging dying?
When I started this blog in late 2002, blogging was an up and coming thing. Fourteen years later, there is plenty of evidence that while blogging is not quite dead it is dying. I can look at my own web statistics to see the trend. While I strongly suspect my web statistics were overstated in…
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Ghostwriter (or the art of tricking Google)
All my life I wanted to be a paid writer. Being a writer sounded quite glamorous. You are paid to create and if you were good enough or wrote for just the right mass audience you could be wealthy like Stephen King. Life didn’t work out that way for me. It’s probably for the best…
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The feminization of Yahoo News
I have nothing against females as CEOs. It’s clear that females make up a tiny minority of corporate CEOs and members of corporate boards. Recent news reports suggest that progress on this front has stalled. But there are a few of them. Few have been more prominent in the news lately than Marissa Mayer, the…
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Ditch Google Glass and give us Google Car!
Google Glass, its internet-friendly eyeware, has been making news lately. It’s the creepy device that looks sort of like glasses (for one eye) that some nerds with close ties to Google are wearing that keeps them continuously connected to the Internet. It projects information from the Internet onto the inside of the glass so they…
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Good news! You are going to be immortal, sort of!
Google recently announced its inactive account manager. If you have a Google Account, this new manager essentially tells Google, “Assume I’ve died if I haven’t logged in after X days. And if I hit that number of days, destroy all data about me.” You can also tell Google not to destroy its data about you,…
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