Third Superpower

Google is introducing a new “e-mail(Welcome to Gmail)”:http://gmail.google.com/ service just in time for “April 1st(Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail)”:http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html. The reaction by the “Associated Press(Google to Introduce Free E-Mail Service)”:http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_E_MAIL?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT and the “New York Times(Google Planning to Roll Out E-Mail Service)”:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/technology/31CND-GOOGLE.html?ex=1396155600&en=85d4be9cfceb5e15&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND%0A is priceless. Is this a new low, or what? Let us hope they [...]

bq. Do you hate Google yet? At first glance, the question seems absurd. What’s to hate about an Internet site where you can go and find out about practically anything, free of charge? – “Hiawatha Bray(As Google grows, critics emerge)”:http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/11/24/as_google_grows_critics_emerge/ bq. Oy I was afraid when I spoke with Hiawatha Bray that he’d get it [...]

bq. Stan was having trouble getting xmms on Redhat to play the Whole Wheat Radio stream, and although I’m nobody’s source of Linux advice, I can search pretty well, so I gave it a shot. First result on Google right now for “xmms redhat” is a blog entry, which direct-links to an RPM for RH [...]

bq. The concept that you can thrown in a couple of words and get an instant and qualified set of pages on which are found the absolute most relevant quotes possible for a subject is bound for failure by the very nature and definition of what Google is about. If you search inadequately, you will [...]

bq. So instead of consumers Googling you before they buy your services, you should Google THEM, and instantly get more personal information than you’d ever be able to capture with traditional 1:1 in an entire life-time. TRENDWATCHING.COM has dubbed this emerging trend COUNTER-GOOGLING, and the opportunities are tasty! – “Trendwatching.com(Counter-Googling)”:http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/2003/09/COUNTER-GOOGLING.html

bq. The scary thing is that high school students will search Google for “spanish curse words(Google Search: spanish curse words)”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=spanish+curse+words&btnG=Google+Search, and they’ll find my page. At least they should; it’s in my title, and a header tag, and the body. And it really is a highly relevant search result. And all the other results are [...]

Jeremy is “upset(PageRank: still broken)”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000911.html that he is the Number One for “Schwarzenegger for Governor(Schwarzenegger for Governor)”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000861.html on “Google(Schwarzenegger for governor)”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Schwarzenegger+for+governor&btnG=Google+Search. I am amused that I am Number One for “Arianna for Governor(Arianna for Governor)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2003/07/27/15/52/ on “Google(Google Search: Arianna for governor)”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Arianna+for+governor&btnG=Google+Search. I see no problem in that both pages were designed with “accessability(Constructing meaningful page [...]

bq. Using XHTML to declare your main heading as H1 will ensure that a search engine spider knows that the contained text is the title of the page, while styling it with CSS yields the desired design effect. Using H1 through H6 accordingly, you can use this methodology to style the sub-headings on your website [...]

bq. The bottom line is that Google is nothing but a mirror of public opinion. When people think of hamburgers do they think of Burger King or McDonalds? Google can tell you. If your content isn’t ranking as high as you think it should it is probably because the public doesn’t agree with it or [...]

bq. Are technology conferences supposed to showcase new technology dispassionately, or hype one or two technologies, let’s say ‘weblogging’ and ‘Wi-Fi’ to the exclusion of other technologies, which don’t fit a narrow ideological agenda? With apologies to the ACM, we can’t ever expect dispassionate presentations at any point when technology innovations are showcased. But for [...]