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I’m happy to announce the latest addition to my site, Google Galore, a new blog that’s all Google, all the time. As I’ve written in the blog’s first post, my motivation to create the blog was simply the desire to have a place to capture observations and anything else related to Google (hopefully akin to […]

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This is so cool: Google’s latest feature that makes it the one-stop destination for pretty much anything you need to do is the Google Calculator. How do you use it? Just type whatever math problem you want to solve into the search box. Whether it’s 1+1 or the formula that will tell you the monthly […]

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Back in May when Mozilla Firebird was released and I started using it, I was blown away by how cool it is — in particular, the popup window blocking feature (and tabbed browsing, which I’ve grown to love). Since then, I’ve been using it pretty much as my primary browser. And IE 6 as backup […]

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(OK, so I’m a month behind, but still think this is pretty newsworthy.) The Sydney Morning Herald: “It’s a strange form of legitimacy – perhaps even a coming of age – when a group of internet users are important enough to get their own version of Google. “Web logs or ‘blogs’, the popular form of […]

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I used to be on the first page of results in a Google search for gabe. I noticed today that that seems to have changed. Now I don’t show up until the 7th page of results. I’m not sure why. I recently changed all my title tags from “gabeanderson.com: [content]” to “Gabe dot com: [content].” […]

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MTV: Educating (the youth of) America. Is it just me, or does it strike anyone else as absolutely hilarious that this MTV headline — Who is Ariel Sharon? — is currently the top “news story” on Google News? I think it’s a sad and telling truth when even the Google News algorithms know that so […]

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After reading this article in the San Jose Mercury News, I set out to see how quickly I could find my first Googlewhack — to search for two words (no quotes) in Google that produce one and only one result. It took me about 16 minutes to uncover my first Googlewhack: homophonic scumbag, which I’m […]

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