Where Google Search Plus Your World Goes Wrong

Remember the days of searching places like Yahoo to find the best results that fit?  I can remember painfully clicking link after link to find the relevant search results on my search topic.  Me and the back button?  We considered getting engaged. I came across a Search Engine Land experiment on how the new Google Search plus Your World works. Google has done some pretty unremarkable things in the past (Hello turning off sharing in Google Reader!).... Read More

You Control the Social Firehose

After following this discussion on Google+ about the evolution of social network adoption and a number of other posts regarding excitement for a chance to cut down on the noise/shares/etc,  I find I must point out something fairly obvious. Filtering social networks is YOUR responsibility. In 2007, FriendFeed was the shiny new tool at the moment.  A lot of folks went to great lengths to add every other social network they were a part of.  Including... Read More

How To Market With Google’s Social Search

The past couple days the techiverse has been entertained and/or irritated at Google Buzz, Google’s stab at social networking.  This isn’t another post about Google Buzz, but rather the hidden gem of Social Circle and Social Search. Combined with their acquisition of Aardvark, Google is amassing utilities to enable social search to take social media to the next level. What are social search and social circles anyway? What makes up our... Read More

Got Gmail?

Image via Wikipedia While everyone loses their collective minds because Gmail is down, one wonders if all the tweets about it is going to break Twitter again. It’s making me reanalyze the way I’ve been doing business with Google products the last 2 years.  Sure it’s got shiny keyboard shortcuts and you can take it everywhere, but what good does that do me when I use it for EVERYTHING and have no backup in place.  All of my mail... Read More

Gmail Wishlist

Image via WikipediaSince there is only one item on this list, it’s not much of a list. When I first looked at Gmail, the nestled conversations drove me crazy, but the more I used it the more I came to love it.  I can find information easily because I tend to remember subject lines to search for.  I’ve even integrated it into my daily routine with Things to provide easily access to emailed task I need to accomplish. I’ve learned... Read More