RT @glynmoody: Cautionary tale about become dependent on #Google to make a living - http://bit.ly/ht9QXF detailed & disturbing (v @jacks ...

Neat intro into how Google ranks pages. to be parsed for workshops, etc.

"To a first approximation, the entire web is spam when it comes to appliance reviews"

Suddenly Murdoch and Microsoft are on the right side against the Google. Douglas Rushkoff says the two oft-despised companies are the best hope to defeat the Evil Empire

Possibly the best thing I've read online this month, if not this year. Lovely photo essay using the automatic, neutral eye of Google's Street View cameras. The technical and artistic angle is interesting but it really hits home with the social stuff. The people who mostly appear on Street View are the poor since they mostly live on the street. Highly recommended.

Interesting, not just for the tips but as an illustration that there's more than one way to access data in a service. I'm reminded of how I used to search for bands on MySpace using Google partly because MySpace's search was so torturous but also because the way Google ranks pages usually bubbled the bands above the non-band pages.

Interesting move from Google. There's a push for councils to use Google adverts to "connect with your citizens at the exact moment when they are searching for services" and I'm not sure AdSense is of a quality I'd like to see on a government website, but they also list Google's free web optimization tools in a clear and understandable way, which is dead handy.

"Locations namechecked in the collected works of Half Man Half Biscuit" slapped on a Google Map. A thing of great beauty. <i>via <a href="http://twitter.com/midge_uk/status/1222327673">Midge</a></i>

Tim Ireland explains to a 'journalist' how Google works by example.

Bad bad news. One of the key reasons not to have a stupid Flash website was Google indexing. That's now out of the window. Goodbye cross platform open standards, hello proprietary code that only works efficiently on Windows. Stupid Google.

This topic has cropped up a bit recently as those of us who are subsumed in social media realise our memories aren't as good as they used to be. Or maybe we're just getting old?

Interesting analysis of Apple's approach to dealing with Flash in an open way along with Google. Worth a good read and a think.

An intro to search operators and the like