Category: google

gmail mind read

google history internet

gmail starts to put custom feed items on top of my email box.
Nice and not nice. The 5 different ones that I saw fly by
were tailored pretty close to what I care about. Of course:
gmail knows about me. I prefer not to realize that. And
I would like to do things at my pace, pick up information
instead of having it pushed my way.

good thing you can turn those things off …

update 12/9:
“Note: Clips of your favorite RSS and Atom feeds are displayed randomly, and aren’t targeted to the contents of your mail.”

so it say in the Webclips answer part of google.

blogdex where are though?

BlogsNow google internet malware

Blogdex is still down. So I thought I might run some google adwords pointing people to BlogsNow.
Turned out somebody was faster: Right now I see an add for blogturbo dot com. Interesting what google advertises for:
It costs only 149 US$ and you can generate thousands of weblogs pointing to your site. This looks like a keyword spam tool to me.
Interesting that google runs ads for it.

Then I wonderred what is going on at daypop.com
Turns out they are down as well …

update November 1st
Blogdex: “up” again, yet results are old/pointless right now.
Daypop: back up again, results make sense. the usual 24 hour delay
blogturbo: still showing ads on google adwords for blogdex.

blogdex broken

google internet

Blogdex did inspire me to write BlogsNow. Blogdex was great. Just a bit to slow, and took just a couple of thousand Weblogs into account. And it was not first aggregator like this either. Just the first one that got wide spread attention.

Now it’s broken. Today is Friday and it says:


Blogdex was improperly shutdown over the weekend, and should be up and running soon.

This might be related that it’s creator is no longer at MIT but took a job at Yahoo.

Blogdex Alex Rank is still very high. Interstingly the development on Blogdex stopped over a year ago. And most visitors it gained AFTER that.

I thought I do the people looking for Blogdex a favor and point them to BlogsNow.

Technorati and Icerocket both showed a couple of pages
where people noticed that blogdex is down.

Google however shows this:

a huge splog fest

Makes google blog search useless. I thought that Google would know what is spam on their own Blogger service and what is not.

Apparently not.

gmail has a problem

google

gmail has troubles sending mail

Right now it looks as if emails to specific recipients did not go through. They are in my sent box. But the people never received them.

Not that nice.

Not sure how far back it goes.

gmail autosave

google history technology

this will save allot of time and frustration
You probably could build another Cheops pyramid in the time that this will save in the next year globally.

and so it has begun

google

this is or rather could be the biggest thing that got started this year. This could be hug, If the g-peeps don’t mess this up like they do/did the video launch.

They have the funding to put wifi in place wherever they want.
They bought enough dark fibre to make their own back bone.
The rest?
History.

Like having a free gPhone. Connects via wifi and the net.
Just ’cause. It it cheap and simple enough for them to do.
And so much more.

at last

google

vanity googling
Took me exactly seven years to get there.

using google for notekeeping

Apple google technology

just spent hours with ImageMagick installations that would result in ‘freetype not found’ messages. While the problem simply was that during the source configuration /usr/local/bin/ was not in the path.
And, I should remember when exactly I remembered this.

Lear jets

google M$

don’t make you happy. At least not if you are Uncle Fester.

more google maps

google

containers in Hamburgs harbor