Tag Archives: Google

I invite you as my guest to read about Google seeing how far it can push its luck with YouTube ads before “users” start finding other ways to spend their internet time.

I test various external search engines on how they handle a specific domain-specific search of thenewleafjournal.com.

Making the case for maintaining a clear distinction between traditional search engines and generative AI tools masquerading as search tools.

I question charging for a manga streaming service that uses unmodified Google Translate “translations.” But par for the course, I question it for lack of wisdom more than for lack of morality.

I use Retro Dodo’s complaints about a dramatic and unexplained decrease in its Google traffic to caution webmasters against relying solely on Google Search to deliver visitors.

An unusually detailed computer in episode 11 of Nana, an anime which aired in 2006-2007, set me off on a journey to identify the vintage computer in question.

I offer my opinion on whether Google’s promoting new AI tools with Chrome for drafting forum posts and reviews will contribute to making the internet a better place.

Using GrapheneOS’s handy web installer to put the hardened Android Open Source Project fork on a Google Pixel 6a phone.

I share my March 27, 2007 photograph of a bright red rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

The story of our lengthly Bing de-indexing (since resolved).

Making the case for whitelisting Seznam and other good crawlers from independent index search engines.

If Bing blacklists a site in its index from appearing to searchers, will it still use the site to inform its ChatGPT implementation? A simple question for Microsoft.