Just had to quickly drop this in here… I did a search this afternoon looking for an RDP (remote desktop) client for the new MacBook. When I put my search terms into Google, it not only searched for RDP, but extrapolated that out to “Remote Desktop” and “Remote Desktop Protocol” (both of which I’d been too lazy to type in). Spooky… I can’t imagine the size of Google’s Acronym index. Perhaps it uses something like Acronym Finder…
Tag Archives: Google
Google Webmaster Tools
Well I just found these a few days ago, and thought it might be interesting to keep track of… If you have a website that you manage, you can set up an account with Google where you can track the status of your pages and see how “easily findable” you are. Google’s set of (somewhat barebones) monitoring tools give you an idea of how well your site rates within Google’s internal search indices.
Remember: one of Google’s top rating mechanisms is pages that link to you or “inbound links” from its other indexed pages.
Google Scraper
A new search technology is available for those of you who feel that Google is getting just a little too creepy…. SCROOGLE!
This search engine does a proxy-protected scrape of Google, and returns the search terms to you. Nice I suppose if you feel you need to hide your searches from the (ahem) fine folks at Google… but you lose out on the funny little Google doodles… 
EPIC 2014 – The reign of Googlezon
This presentation was put together by a couple of university students at Georgia Tech. It tells an orwellian tale about the demise of what we would call “modern media”. The clip is narrated and runs 8 minutes. It packs a lot of thinking into those 8 short minutes.
This project has caused me to do a lot of thinking since I saw it. It is based partly in reality, and partly in conjecture. The presentation shows us a world that could be, some say it is the world that will be.
The first link below contains a written version with some added details that aren’t in the flash movie. The second link is the flash movie itself. This was originally published several months ago, so it may be old news for some of you, but this is something that really made me think, and its worth another look.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/11/29/summary_of_the_world_googlezon.htm
http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/
“In feeble protest to Googlezon’s hegemony, the Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elderly…” go figure…