Tag Archives: Google

Dumb Google

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Geoff

With all the information that Google has about me you would think they would know better than this:- Obviously they only take in the fact that my computer is sitting on a French network rather than my Google account which … Continue reading →

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Eating in or out?

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Geoff

Spurred by reading this on CNET “he heard Google’s Marissa Mayer whisper that in these times of infinite woe, more people were googling “recipes” than “restaurants.” I thought I would give it a try using Google Trends, and for the … Continue reading →

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Spam and overnight success

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Geoff

After reading the excellent post “Overnight success takes a long time” by Paul Buchheit on the history of gmail it stirred my memory into why I use gmail. The answer is this prominent  button: Before gmail came along. Spam was … Continue reading →

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Computing the future

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Geoff

Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future. I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction … Continue reading →

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UK Poker Ads on Google

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Geoff

Google ads for Poker – American viewers please look away Powered by ScribeFire.

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The Google monopoly!

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Geoff

Just looking at my Google Analytic figures for the past 30 days:- Looks like Google has a bit of a monopoly to me! The real reason for looking at my analytics was to see if the link Steve Pavlina gave … Continue reading →

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Steve Pavlina on Truth, Love & Power

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Geoff

I originally discovered Steve Pavlina‘s blog when searching for public speaking, several years ago using Google. His blog led me to Toastmasters which I then discovered met in a hotel literally 100 yards from where I live in the UK!. … Continue reading →

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Geoff potential guests being led astray.

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Geoff

I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred … Continue reading →

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Twitter beaching the whale

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Geoff

Very bad news from Twitter,. Twitters USP here in the UK was the ability to send & receive tweets by SMS (Text messaging) as of today, with no warning whatsoever, they have cut of receiving updates here in the UK … Continue reading →

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My relationship with Google..

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Geoff

Decided to look at my Google web history. Here are the sad graphs of my life with Google:- It says my total number of Google searches is 12,418 with its first entry in March 2006 (14 searches a day on … Continue reading →

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