Google Images now has Google News results

April 30, 2007

Early Sunday morning, a gasoline truck burst into flames on a connector ramp from the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge and melted that ramp and the ramp above it. That evening, I searched for Oakland 580 fire in Google Images. Fifteen out of 20 results on the first page were images of the fire [...]

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New URL Removal Feature in Google Webmaster Tools

April 17, 2007

Google has integrated their URL Removal Tool in the Webmaster Tools console. From here, you can remove content from the Google index, by using a meta noindex tag, having the URL return a 404 or 410 status code, or block the page with the robots.txt file. Previously, you had to use a separate Google website [...]

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Descriptive Post Titles: One Reader’s Plea

March 15, 2007

One of the reasons I haven’t been blogging lately is I have a chance to work full time and utilize my degree for the first time in a long time. When I was at my graduate school internship five years ago, MIT was just starting to talk about putting their course materials online. Now, five [...]

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No posts for a bit

February 27, 2007

I’m in the process of moving, have no connection yet at the new house, and have a contract that is keeping me quite busy, so this blog will be quiet for a little while.

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Social Bookmarking Search Site

February 17, 2007

Lifehacker pointed to Infopirate.org’s announcement of a Google Co-op created for searching social bookmarking sites. About 75 sites are in the co-op search, including the big ones (reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, shashdot, digg) and lots of smaller ones that I had not heard of.

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