“The issue is a rather tricky one, and stems from the fact that Google will frequently now keep the HTTP connection open using keep-alives when indexing another host with the same shared IP address. When these two hosts happen to be different accounts then a bug in the component of the VPS software that handles requests to name based accounts handles these requests incorrectly.”

New Labs tool allows you to upload data to compare it with changes in search term frequency.

How to set up event tracking and things to consider.

Automates a lot of features including event tracker.

Avinash Kaushik’s overview for using advanced segments in GA.

Dennis Graham’s overview of the GA Navigation Summary report with a few useful tricks.

Includes tips on QR code generation and analytics.

By Janusz Kamieński.

Via a plugin in IE7/8, Chrome and Firefox.

Numbers of requests for data and removal by country.

Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman’s appendix to their paper “Measuring the perpetrators and funders of typosquatting” (available as a PDF download on this page).

Google page listing various options for refining a search.

Keir Whitaker outlines Google’s “fetch as Googlebot” tool. Requires you to define your site using your Google account.

News of a JavaScript include that looks for SVG rendering capability in the browser, and falls back to a Flash implementation called SVGWeb if native support for SVG is not detected. that means Internet Explorer—it falls back to Flash in IE. Google done that.

Mac OS X app for monitoring domains that you own and want to own.

Frederic Lardinois on Google Wave.

Andy Ihnatko on Google Wave.

An EFF project tracking web site user policies (currently 44 of them).

Ted Dziuba explains Google Wave and is generally upbeat about it.

Derek Collins on how to use Google Optimizer.

Firefox extension by Glenn Jones that uses the Google Social Graph API to identify people based on the rel="me" link attribute. Easy to use—for example “Ctrl + I” (Mac) or “Alt + I” (Windows) on someone’s Twitter profile page—it pulls in available data from the present site and any other social web sites it can. According to Google’s API, the plugin can identify public URLs that belong to the person being looked up, and publicly declared connections between that person and others. Quick feedback on the identifying information you publish about yourself online.

Cade Metz on a floating data centre patent by Google. It’s all very Snow Crash.

Cade Metz on Google’s behavioural ads and whether AdSense and DoubleClick data is aggregated.

Frederic Lardinois is feeling “slightly queasy” about Google's user data (behaviour) based advertising technology.

Phil Butler on Google's recent talk about some of its plans for their user data stockpile which involves data mining to increase the precision of ad targeting. He mentions an opt-out option as well as a tool for users to refine the targeting process by turning off some kinds of advertising that is being described by the company as a pro-consumer feature.

Kelly Fiveash on a recent Google Docs fuckup.

Bruce Schneier on Loopt's and Google's approach to privacy regarding some location-based web services.

Gmail down for four hours.

It's a good question since it keeps coming up: should you run your e-mail services in-house or adopt free or cheap third-party hosted solutions. Many people commenting in this thread seem to see the former as more work than it's worth, and have liked the experience of moving to the latter.

Another report on the lost suit against Google's Street View photography.

The couple that sued Google for taking Street View photos of their house lost the case. Apparently a complaint like this rests on proving that the privacy violation caused real harm. It sounds like the plaintiffs didn't have a strong enough case. Still, Google's opt-out response and claim that privacy is dead anyway seems like a cop out.

A link element rel format for specifying canonical URLs to Google's search engine.

XMCP's "why be scared of Google" article.

Philipp Lenssen on some modest page-weight savings Google could have made back in 2006 by moving from their deprecated markup to a standards-based XHTML and CSS approach.