Google Launches Search Transparency Blog Series

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2011 05:59 Written by External Post Monday, 19 December 2011 05:59

While Google technically made the first blog post in this series last month, they didn’t specifically call it a new, ongoing series until they made yesterday’s post. You can find it at Google Inside Search. Written by Scott Huffman, Google’s engineering director, it fills a gap of sorts. True, the search engine has published nearly 1,000 blog posts about search, plus more than 400 webmaster videos and thousands of forum posts. But we make roughly 500 improvements in a given year, Huffman noted, so this new series provides a way to capture some of those changes. Danny Sullivan did an analysi…
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Bookmark in Spalding

Last Updated on Friday, 18 November 2011 04:05 Written by External Post Friday, 18 November 2011 04:05

Yesterday I had a long series of (very productive) meetings about a book we’re doing, and then headed to Spalding. As with the event at Guisborough, I was there to sign books, and talk about some items that people had brought in. And what a lot of wonderful things the people of Spalding brought for me to see!

There was a very wide variety of objects, ranging from several 19th century Chinese ivory carvings to Staffordshire pottery. Somebody brought along a brilliant 19th century ironstone cup, which had a grotesque animal handle. Then there was the sad story of an incredible 16in (40 … Read this full article on the Miller’s Blog.
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Google’s Gingerbread Man Has Arrived

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 06:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 26 October 2010 06:40

Daetrin writes “Last weekend Google received the next statue in the sweets-themed series that commemorates the major updates of the Android OS. In the past this has meant that the release of the next SDK was right around the corner. However this time
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Mad Men Finds Are Part of the Top Vintage Finds for Fall at Randolph Street Fashion Expo

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:20 Written by a2e Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:20

CHICAGO, IL, October 4, 2010–Thanks to the hit TV series Mad Men the ’60s are back and fans of the show will be finding the best the era had to offer at Modern Vintage Chicago Fall Fashion and Jewelry Explosion by the Randolph Street Market Festival.
“Other popular series like Six Feet Under and the Sopranos [...]
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Sotheby’s to offer Property from the Hascoe Family Collection in 2011

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:15 Written by a2e Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:15

Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that we will offer property from the Hascoe Family Collection, assembled by Norman and Suzanne Hascoe over years of passionate collecting, in a series of sales throughout the first half of 2011. The Collection is highlighted by its important American furniture and Czech modernist art, which [...]
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Facebook blames outage on internal config flaw

Last Updated on Friday, 24 September 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Friday, 24 September 2010 06:00

Facebook has published a detailed explanation of an internal configuration flaw that left the site unavailable for around two and a half hours overnight – the social network’s worst downtime in four years. The outage stemmed from a cascading series of
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New at Google: Google New

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010 09:01 Written by External Post Thursday, 23 September 2010 09:01

Google’s new blog for promoting its product annoucements, Google New, is touting as its top story. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) A few weeks after starting a video series to promote the most popular searches in a given week, Google is starting
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Google’s Schmidt taking small steps into social

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00

Google’s long-awaited big push into social-networking technology may arrive as a series of small steps rather than one grand product launch, the company’s CEO suggested Tuesday. Eric Schmidt, speaking in a press conference during the company-sponsored
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