Sunday, June 26, 2005

Google Whore

That's what Dear Crissy calls herself or her readers, I'm not sure. Maybe both:

So, yeah. You Google me, I Google you, we all probably spend at least five or ten minutes a week doing this kind of detective work. The only difference being that when people look me up, they get a lot more payoff. While the attention-loving part of me is really OK with that, alternatively the OH SHOOT ME part wants to crawl in a hole and well, make deletions.
Crissy's post points out why Googleholics can never be Anonymous.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Google Cheat Sheet

Here's a cheat sheet for Google's advanced search features: exact phrases, combinations of all words, definitions, a word or its synonyms, movie titles, etc. Shows how to do a "safe" search, very useful when Googling a topic that is likely to return "not safe for work" results by mistake.

Hat tip to Newmark's Door.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Check out how Googleites eat

From the Google Blog One Man's Food Pyramid:

We may choose to eat only healthy food here at the Googleplex. The cafes serve sumptuous veggies and subtly seasoned fish, meat and pasta dishes, and the various kitchenettes always have a tempting array of fruits to choose from.

Photoblog Friday, however, is today devoted to the Dark Side.