Category Archives: Search engines

Google’s censoring in China

Posted by Tim Malone on Saturday 26th August, 2006 No comments

Just a quick one – a good example of the level of censoring that has to be applied in China: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen Quite… sad.

AOL releases 6 months worth of search data

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 9th August, 2006 2 comments

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy …

Interview with Ammon Johns

Posted by Tim Malone on Saturday 18th March, 2006 2 comments

Rand Fiskin, of SEOmoz, recently interviewed Ammon Johns, focusing mainly on Ammon’s new position as SEO Director at The Search Works. The interview goes over the basis of identifying SEO projects and the clients that want them, and is a …

15 year old pretends to be hired by Google

Posted by Tim Malone on Monday 13th March, 2006 2 comments

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled …

Google planning to offer online storage

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 8th March, 2006 1 comment

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility. Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web …