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Google’s Custom Search
There’s a fair buzz going around with the release last week of Google’s Custom Search Engine facility. It has been possible for some time to place a Google search for a single URL on your site, but now you can create a custom CSE that searches up to 2,000 specified URLs. These can be explicit […]
e-Books for lawyers
I have expended much of my creative effort these last few weeks finishing off a couple of new e-books with 5 CPD points a pop on the subject of the legal web, produced by me and Delia Venables and just published on infolaw. You’ll find full details there, but here’s a quick summary. Changing Practice […]
Weird Firefox behaviour explained
I have just abandoned IE6 at work completely in favour of Firefox, though I’ve been using Firefox at home for some time. I mentioned in a recent post some weird behaviour in Firefox when a duff URL was linked. I now find this in Firefox help which perhaps explains it: By default, if you enter […]
Blogosphere quite small shock
Technorati is a wonderful resource for bloggers. If you have not yet discovered it or do not use it much, take the time now to investigate what it offers. It tracks and indexes currently more than 51 million blogs and gives you several ways to discover new blogs and to follow the stats and conversation […]
Google’s steps towards world domination (3)
John Naughton on the launch of Google Checkout: The trouble with IT is that there’s always someone whose business plan involves world domination. … The latest contender for Supreme Ruler is Google, which until recently was a cheeky startup run by guys claiming the freehold of the Higher Moral Ground, but is now a grubby […]
Holiday reading?
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Paperback) by Lawrence Lessig (August 2000) A Brief History of the Future: […]
Adnonsense
I’ve been running Google Adsense on Lawfinder for a few months now – mainly in the interests of research, though it does become seductive. I’ve also followed up on some of the research, blogs and forums about it. Here are my findings: The vast majority of Adsense accounts earn less than $50 per month and […]
Falling out of love with Google (2)
Blogoscope’s Devil’s Guide to Google suggests how you can contribute to the spam fest.
Falling out of love with Google
I’m a big fan of Google the search engine. Always have been. But like many others, last year I started falling out of love with Google the business. It’s just too big, too powerful and its ambitions too great. It hasn’t abandoned its “don’t be evil” motto, but it defines evil for itself. It has […]
Social networking sites – the new gatekeepers
The FT reports talks between MySpace and Google/Microsoft who are keen to capture more of the youth market. The rapid growth of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has threatened to tip the balance of power on the internet away from traditional portals and search engines. Their potential to become the places where […]
Search engine optimisation
First published January 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. What is search engine optimisation? Search is big business – the driver of e-commerce. In the early days of the web most users used portal sites and directories to navigate their way to what interested them. Today the web is so vast and users’ needs […]
Search in 2005 … and 2006?
John Battelle, former editor of Wired magazine, is the leading commentator on search. In November he published his good read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. In the concluding chapter on the future of search he says: As every engineer in the search field loves […]
Google’s steps towards world domination (2)
Here’s the list. Web search: Google Google Image Search Google News Google University Search Google Blog Search beta Goods and services: Froogle beta Google Base beta Maps and directions; local businesses: Google Local / Google Maps beta (map data from Tele Atlas; business listings from Yell.com) Book content: Google Book Search beta (previously Google print) […]
Google Base – the next step towards world domination?
Google has taken the next step in its quest to “organise the world’s information” with the release of Google Base in beta. “Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, […]
Is it not cricket to bowl a googly?
Michael Gorman, the new President of the American Library Association (ALA), is at it again. In an interview for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals he expresses several more of what the interviewer describes as: “robust opinions, untrammelled by lip service to what in Britain passes for political correctness … gloriously oblivious to […]
