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Doodle 4 Google

Ben — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:44:22 +0000

Google has a contest where they have young art students draw a Doodle of the Google logo, and this year one of my Aunt’s students is a finalist so if you wanted to help out and vote for her students drawing that would be much appreciated. Her students drawing is Region 1 for Grades 7-9, as shown below, and voting ends May 25th, so please help out, and vote in the other grades as well.

Is Android Innovating Too Fast?

Liebtag — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:30:08 +0000

Techcrunch writer MG Siegler has what I find to be a very interesting take on a problem facing Android. That being that it is innovating too fast. Basically by deluging the market with phones and technology too fast consumers are getting whiplash and it is hurting sales. I saw this happening a lot with the release of the Droid especially since people were getting locked into multi-year contracts and missing out on the Nexus One. It seems the problem is only exacerbated by the fact that Google does not have death grip control over hardware and release info like Apple. Thoughts?

Sarah Palin’s Google Search

Ben — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:15:30 +0000

Probably should have thrown one in there about the proper use of the word retard too.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Via YesButNoButYes

Realistic Google Ad

Ben — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:55 +0000

We all saw the Google ad during the Super Bowl, and most women probably loved while the men were indifferent, but here is a more realistic version of what would happen made by UCB Comedy.

Via Gizmodo

Google the Death of Newspapers?

Liebtag — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:35:44 +0000

Eric Schmidt has a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal about how Google and publishers of news content can work together. I think he hits the nail on the head in many ways. Newspaper execs are taking too short sighted a view of the possibilities for their content. If they can even make pennies on the huge volume that a proper online content system would create they wouldn’t have to work about subscription services and other ideas being pitched.

Google, Twitter, and Social Search

Liebtag — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:01 +0000

Google recently struck a deal with Twitter in which money changed hands, unlike the Bing deal, and Marissa Mayer announced and upcoming social search tool at the Web 2.0 Summit. The convergence of all these search mediums creates and interesting challenge. How do you mine not just information but the useful information from a base that includes a lot of useless chatter i.e. Twitter/Facebook?

Awesome Google Street View Ad

Liebtag — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:53:17 +0000

Google Japan is killing it, first with their chrome ad and now this street view ad that rivals Wall-E in robot cuteness.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Google Fast Flip

Liebtag — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:04:16 +0000

With the introduction of fast flip Google has introduced a great new way to browse through a topic in different publications or simply move through something like the newspaper. I think the real possibility to apply this tech is being able to scroll across a full publication not just a preview. Something like a more interactive Google maps for newspapers. I think it’s coming with the next iteration of fast flip, or at least I hope.

Improved Google Search

Liebtag — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:43:22 +0000

Google has invited the public to test a faster more accurate search. Good move to include the public as much as possible, with the Microsoft/Yahoo deal and the plastering of Bing ads they had to get something out there. Still hard to believe in a max exodus away from Google.

Via Computerworld

Google Quadruples Newspapers

Liebtag — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:07:39 +0000

Google has quietly quadrupled the number of newspaper articles in their news archive search

Via TechCrunch