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The daily Google Zeitgeist

On Monday, Google launched a new module for Google Trends called "Hot Trends" that analyzes queries done in the USA. The tool is updated several times daily so we can get a sense, albeit not real time, of what is happening right now on Google Search.Hot Trends, a list...

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Blog posts 2007-05-22

Can Google organize 'world's information'?

The world’s leading search engine, and $142 billion market cap public corporation, Google, famously touts a vaunted mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible.”The inherent problem with unrealizable objectives is that they are unattainable. Google is a study in contradictions, as I underscore in “Google: The...

Tags: Metrics, Google Software Applications, Privacy, Self-Promotion, Internet Data, Google, Media, Search, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-29

Google Zeitgeist 2006

Google Zeitgeist 2006hello...hello.......helloThere seems to be an echo in the first paragraph!What about Porn?I was under the impression that porn was the most searched thing on the net. I would be interested to see those statistics, see what they say about our society. That would make for interesting reading. Are...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Zeitgeist 2006, Google Zeitgeist

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

Google Zeitgeist 2006

Its not yet available on the Google press page, but if you know where to look you can catch a glimpse before its made public. The 2006 Zeitgeist explores whats hot, current events, milestones, entertainment and sports.Whats Hot What roils our curiosity enough to ask basic questions? Between these...

Tags: current event, curiosity, Google Zeitgeist, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-18

Google Zeitgeist '05 available

Here are some fun facts from Google, they have just released the 2005 Zeitgeist which gives us a nice overview of the year we have just endured.It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-20

Additional Resources

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Google, let's see what you've got

Google shares a lot of data already through tools like Google Trends, Google Ad Planner and the Zeitgeist -- but there are several "secret" pieces of info that could be very useful, and interesting for many people. Asa Dotzlen has a good point -- Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Asa Dotzlen, Browser Statistics Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-08-22

JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOU

Amazon's removal of George Orwell ebooks from every Kindle with a paid entitlement is not only ironic in context but has frightening ramifications in terms of privacy and content ownership. Without warning or any sort of advance notification on Friday, Amazon...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-18

Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target

Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...

Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director

I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film 'Us Now', a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet last week at the Barbican Arts...

Tags: Film, Ivo Gormley, Government, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end?

Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end?At least the new guy ...... Qi Lu seems to believe that MS' core algorithms need to be top notch before the company can seriously take on Google. I hope MS gets its Powerset algorithms working at the heart of its search engine...

Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

News to know: SAP's mistake; Mozilla; Yahoo; CRM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases to select testers updated IE 8 build CES: Zune phone, no. Pink, maybe Ryan Naraine: Window Snyder leaves Mozilla...

Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Laptop Computer, CRM, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Linux, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy

Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...

Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Google's parallel programming model

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on commodity-based clusters. The latest statistics included in the paper are from September 2007. They show that...

Tags: Google Inc., Programming Model, Programming, MapReduce, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-14

News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple QuickTime, Beta, BlackBerry Patent App, Google Inc., Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-12-14

Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?

Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?Manipulating the massesThe 'war of the worlds is old ha't. The greatest scam of the modern age is "The War On Terror". Can I suggest "The Northwoods Project" as preliminary reading to watching "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change" and "9/11 Mysteries". Then ask yourself...

Tags: scare, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2007-10-31

Google Rebang now live

That mysterious entry in Googles robots.txt file "/rebang" is now live and ready to go. Its what we expected -- a sort of zeitgeist or "Billboard" for China. According to the help document, they hope to make this service available to other regions and languages in the future....

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Google search PageRank excludes relevant Websites

Matt Cutts, Google’s apparent external point man for the “search community,” has posted a Google 2007 weather forecast for Google’s all-powerful PageRank.Cutts’ “infrastructure status” public report at his “personal blog” begins with a bit of secretive panache:"I’ll briefly cover the things that I know are going on. The executive summary...

Tags: Google Search, Web site, Google Inc., PageRank

Blog posts 2007-01-13

Google Q & A on Google Zeitgeist: Exclusive

I juxtaposed Google Zeitgeist 2006 vs. Yahoo Buzz 2006 yesterday in “Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers.” Digital Markets TalkBacker saran945@... underscored: “no words/phrases repeated in both search engines.” Why not? I touched base with leading search engine Google to find out and got an inside look at how the Google...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers

Google has zeitgeist, Yahoo has buzz.What piqued Google searchers’ interests in 2006,versus Yahoo searchers?Yahoo Top Ten Overall SearchesBritney Spears,WWE,Shakira,Jessica Simpson,Paris Hilton,American Idol,Beyonce Knowles,Chris Brown,Pamela Anderson,Lindsay Lohan.Google.com Top Searchesbebo,myspae,world cup,metacafe,radioblog,wikipedia,video,rebelde,mininova,wiki.Yahoo Top 10 News Story SearchesSteve Irwin death,Anna Nicole’s son dies,Iraq,Israel and Lebanon,U.S. elections,Fidel Castro stroke,North Korea nuke,JonBenet confession,Saddam Hussein trial,Danish cartoon.Google...

Tags: searcher, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-19