Confessions of a die-hard Google groupie

Microsoft and Google appear to be arming up for a whole new cold war of their own à la Coca Cola vs Pepsi. The outcome of their current hyper-competition may well determine the way we use information technology in the future.

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Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, was interviewed by John Donvan for ABC News “Ahead of the Curve“.

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Forbes is listing Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at number 26 and 27 respectively of the 2006 World’s Bachelor Billionaires top 100.

The article goes on pointing out how since taking Google public in August 2004, their meteoric rise in wealth outpaces the rate set by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

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susan promised you that i would leave my traces on her blog, so here i am. it is great to be back in the eternal city: it feels like coming home again. susan’s apartment is really nice and it’s amazing that you can watch dutch queen’s day celebrations live on her tv, so that you feel even more at home

besides eating and sleeping a lot, we also had to cope with a terrible drama: the electric delonghi espresso maker broke so there was nothing to drink but tea this morning, which is pretty bad for a coffee addict like me. just ten minutes ago susan almost broke her neck while searching for an old fashioned macchinetta in a hidden store room next to the kitchen and guess what: she found it…! so right now i’m enjoying a very nice cup of home made espresso.

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Wondering what people are searching for on Google?

Google Current airs on Current TV daily. It provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google and has some background information in a 3-minute video.

The Google Zeitgeist Monthly shows that in February people in Brazil searched for “carnaval”, Germans were trying to push up their general knowledge by looking for “Wikipedia”, Italians wanted to know more about “San Valentino” while Singapore was looking to buy “viagra”. Talk about stereotypes…

To see what people are looking for on other search engines: Yahoo Buzz Overall Searches and AOL Hot Searches

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Apparently, Google’s Webspam and Sitemaps teams are joining forces to notify webmasters of possible penalties for their web site if they believe the site in itself is legitimate and they are not dealing with a die-hard cheating spammer, in which case they won’t notify and just penalize and / or remove the site from their index.

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I came across a really funny article in a back issue of a dutch newspaper about egosurfing.

At this point I couldn’t help myself and did a little ego research of my own only to find out that nobody writes about me. But then again, why would they?

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After Matt Cutts officially confirmed that Googlebot is being helped by the Adwords Mediabot for the Google Big Daddy index at PubCon in Boston last week, he has now posted further information on his blog about Google’s crawl caching proxy.

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Now that we have determined which keywords we want to target, we are going to put them to good use. If you missed it, you can read my choosing keywords post first.

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I came across this recent study by researchers Bram van den Bergh and Siegfried Dewitte at the University of Leuven in Belgium that shows that a subtle cue related to sex is able to impact decision making in men, who become more likely to accept unfair offers in an money-dividing game.

The findings of the study confirm that men with higher testosterone levels and men that are in a position of power, when exposed to highly attractive women are more likely to accept unfair offers.

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