Feb 11 2008
In April, 2004, I posted about finding myself via google. Back then there were:
108 hits for “jody cairns”
23 hits for “jody r cairns”
I’m more popular now:
“jody cairns”: 2200 hits (All except two hits are about me on the first page.)
“jody r cairns”: only 7 hits (All me.)
What about you?
Nov 10 2007
Someone stumbled on Hi There You Sexy God via the Arabic version of Google:
Steel White Table is also in the top ten for how to make a turban.
So, what can we conclude from this?
Nov 10 2007
I think the internet is broke: Google AdSense is down.
I’m redesigning Steel White Table (I predict it’ll be done in about two weeks), and I want to add Google’s AdSense search functionality to it, but I received the following in a dozen languages when I tried to access their site:
The Google AdSense website is temporarily [...]
Jul 28 2006
Google Talk was released almost a year ago as an alternative to Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and many other instant messaging software available.
The major features I like about Google Talk are:
Its interface isn’t busy and cluttered, unlike Yahoo’s mess.
Its integration with Google’s Gmail is convenient: it saves chat conversations in your gmail account, so [...]
Oct 05 2005
How I got to Google, ch. 1, from Google’s blog, describes how one employee stumbled into getting hired by them after reporting a DNS problem:
I headed over to Google.com, found the “Contact Us” page and the “Report a problem” link, chunked in a brief problem description and a link to the archived copy of the [...]
Jun 03 2005
Google Sitemaps has been propagating blogland recently:
By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.
For non-web techy folks, that means Google will be able to include your website contents into their search engine more [...]
Apr 13 2005
Google Video Upload Program:
You’ve made a great video. Now who will watch it?
Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free. Signing up for the Google Video Upload Program will connect your [...]
Apr 02 2005
YaGoohoo!gle searches Yahoo! and Google, displaying the results for both in split screen. Interesting if you care about search engines.
Jan 03 2005
Montage-a-google creates a montage of the images found based on your entered keywords. Another neat, but useless internet application.
Dec 30 2004
Google Rankings:
Check the ranking of a web page in Google. Our tool will look up your position within Google for any given search.
Neat. Steel White Table is ranked 12th for the phrase “ads suck“. Ranked 1st for “scotish baby names” (because of the misspelling).
Dec 20 2004
Google has this image on their front page today, which takes you to a Holiday Logos page (click the image).
What’s that about?
Oct 16 2004
The Google Bible:
Just for fun (and no offense) I replaced the following ten words in the King James Bible:
God with Google,
Light with Search,
Earth with Web,
Heaven with Googleplex,
Adam with Googlebot,
Egypt with Microsoft,
LORD with ENGINE,
Israel with California,
Noah with Silicon Valley,
and Man with Algorithm.
Some amusing quotes:
006:005 And Google saw that the wickedness of algorithm was great in the [...]
