Google is waking me up

I enabled sms notifications in Google Calendar and set my time zone to GMT +1. It’s working great… most of the time.

This morning, Google woke me up at 4 am, 4.20 am and 5 am to remind me that today is my friend Floriana’s friend Dionino’s birthday. I won’t be able to forget all day, and neither will my co-workers. Yes, I’m very cranky when I don’t get enough sleep.

Happy birthday Dionino!

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Talk about gaming digg.com…

When checking out Amazon’s Mechanical Turk I came across this:


It says: Create an account at digg.com, and “digg” a total of 6 stories…

Talk about gaming digg.com…

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Are there?

There are some questions that can't be answered by Google
Found on Flickr, originally uploaded by Amber Mac.

Non-existent stations on Google Maps

non-existent underground stations

Yesterday evening I was searching Google maps for the fastest way from a colleagues house to mine and came across some interesting Rome underground stations. Continue reading →

Google patent granted for editorial opinions in search results

On 22 August, Google was granted US patent 7,096,214 (filed in December 2000) for a “system and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results”. Continue reading →

SES San Jose Photos

I took so many photos at SES San Jose that it would be too much to embed them here, so I posted pictures from Search Engines Strategies San Jose on Piacasaweb:

Pre-conference sightseeing in Silicon Valley

SES San Jose Conference Pictures

SES San Jose People

I haven’t had time yet for a write-up of the sessions I attended. I’m off to Greece on holiday tomorrow morning and will start writing when I get back!

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Sale at Palo Alto Coin Broker

Visit to Google Headquarters

Today, me and a small group of others visited the Googleplex. We had lots of fun and met with some very interesting people from various parts of Google. Unfortunately, that’s all I can say about it…

Matt Cutts
with Matt Cutts outside Google HQ

Bill Slawski
with Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea

Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts on Googleplex transportation

For a look inside the Googleplex, check out this ABC Video.

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Pre-Conference Silicon Valley Sightseeing

sillicon valley sightseeing

Matt Cutts’ Secret Google Sauce Tasting

Matt Cutts generously shares useful SEO insights by doing a special SEO questions and answers on Google video: Continue reading →