Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts in: Search engines

Google goes local
Need more proof that the power of the Web is in it’s local reach? Google just launched a local business finder service (still in beta). I’m sure sites like BellSouth’s RealPages and Yahoo!’s Get Local are starting to panic. Like RealPages.com, Google’s local search offers each business’ phone number, address and directions. Plus Google offers related web [...] [18 Mar 2004]
Shhhhhh . . . Big Google is watching…
Okay, maybe the big brother reference is an exaggeration. But some frequent Googlers, are finding that the search engine giant is tracking (via cookies) the number of searches they are doing. (Read the New York Times article). Google says that less than 1% of users are affected, and that they’re just trying to track how [...] [7 Oct 2003]
Google related links…visualized
The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01 offers you a graphical version of Google’s related links for your website ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and for web sites related to your web site. The browser requires Java JRE 1.3 or higher. You type in the URL of your (or any) web site, and you’ll get a clusters of related nodes. Double-click on a node, [...] [14 Sep 2003]