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Google Press Center: Zeitgeist In case you haven't seen this yet, this is what I call a worthwhile Year-in-Review: no ponderous punditry, just the stats made graphic. USA Today, eat your heart out. -- Andrea...
andrea wrote this on December 21, 2001
By the way - some odd links to Ishbadiddle come up when you google it. Click here. [NB: I can explain, really. Every once in a while (OK, at least once a day) I check my referral log, which tells...
Ennis wrote this on February 18, 2002
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M E-L wrote this on May 6, 2002
http://www.monstor.com Via XBlog...
Tk wrote this on May 21, 2002
For the first time in quite a while, Davezilla had something worth referring others to, to wit, Google’s list of the many different ways to spell the name of that jailbait pops(tar[t])....
Tk wrote this on May 23, 2002
Find out with Googlism....
M E-L wrote this on October 29, 2002
Google Weblog....
M E-L wrote this on November 12, 2002
In today's Voice, Nat Hentoff on the Total Information Awareness surveillance program. Has anyone run the numbers on the sheer quantity of information TIA is planning on gathering? How many terabytes are we talking about here? Or are they just...
M E-L wrote this on December 11, 2002
Those folks at Google Labs just keep coming up with new great stuff!...
M E-L wrote this on December 11, 2002
Speaking of media bias, and of Lott's gosh-weren't-the-old-segregation-days-great comments, Signorile outs The Washington Times for its editors' views on race. Here's what it's assistant national editor had to say:[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a...
M E-L wrote this on December 12, 2002
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M E-L wrote this on July 7, 2003
So in the past few days, several people have mentioned to me the 404: Weapons of Mass Destruction Not Found site. I've received emails, people have told me about it. It's a pretty funny site, and it was when I...
M E-L wrote this on July 16, 2003
Hey! Ish is the 2nd hit on a Google search for maniacal laughter clown doll. This is what I get for looking at my referral log....
M E-L wrote this on September 12, 2003
Net-Powered Naming....
M E-L wrote this on September 22, 2003
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M E-L wrote this on October 17, 2003
Check out this Search Engine Relationship Chart that shows just who supplies what search results to whom. Kewl....
M E-L wrote this on January 28, 2004
Cool treemap of news stories from Google News. via Eyebeam reBlog....
Ennis wrote this on March 30, 2004
"On more careful reading of the SEC filing I note that the value of the IPO set by the founders is $2,718,281,828, a number that fellow mathematicians will realise is an in-joke based on an approximation of e ( =...
Ennis wrote this on May 1, 2004
Jew. (Via wizbang! who reminds us that the anti-semitic site Jew Watch is winning the "Google" war over this search term.)...
M E-L wrote this on May 14, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on June 1, 2004
Kerry t-shirt. Guess what's first! Wahoo! DOTWHO!...
M E-L wrote this on June 21, 2004
I've just installed the MT-Blacklist plugin, so we should see fewer fake comments from spammers trying to use Ishbadiddle to boost their own Google ranking. Let me know if you've got any trouble making comments now. Unless you're trying to...
M E-L wrote this on July 21, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 19, 2004
Ishaddicts may have noticed that we weren't here over the weekend. Our site was hit by spambots -- over 1000 spam-filled comments filled up the blog before our server shut down. So we're taking Ish offline temporarily while we implement...
M E-L wrote this on November 22, 2004
Social Security. Generally Googlebombs are silly, but maybe people are searching for "Social Security" these days. Via Political Strategy....
M E-L wrote this on February 7, 2005
I was recently going through Ishbadiddle's server logs, for reasons tangential to everything important. I haven't looked at them for a while (gone are the days when I checked our logs on an obsessive basis!) but was interested to see...
M E-L wrote this on April 14, 2005
The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? Found on Josh Rubin....
M E-L wrote this on April 14, 2005
In a rather silly Styles article (OK, so that's redundant), the New York Times discusses Google's annoying ability to find personal data that you'd rather suppress, like bad reviews and bad photos. (The article is most noteworthy for the accompanying...
M E-L wrote this on June 2, 2005
Literary map of Manhattan. Via Kerim. Also: web service to make computer wallpaper out of Google satellite maps. It would be cool to combine this with Rasterbator to make actual wallpaper. Grand Central's secret whispering gallery Just Say No...
M E-L wrote this on June 6, 2005
As a followup to the Doubletrust link from a few days ago, Functioning Form compares all the offerings from the two companies and their interface designs. Some actual judgment on which designs work better would be useful, but it's still...
M E-L wrote this on June 8, 2005
gCensus...
M E-L wrote this on June 14, 2005
Bizarre. Someone leaves a post entitled "i am lonely will someone please speak to me" on a bulletin board about... Movie Codecs? Others who search for "i am lonely" on Google find the thread. And thus, a community is born....
M E-L wrote this on June 28, 2005
Fravia's web-searching lore. Via things magazine (where do they get such wonderful toys?)...
M E-L wrote this on August 9, 2005
From Deborah Elizabeth Finn's blog, a link to Talk Digger, which will display recent links to any URL. The site includes results from Google and MSN Search, as well as Bloglines, Icerocket (?), Technorati, BlogPulse (?), PubSub, Blog Digger (?),...
M E-L wrote this on August 10, 2005
"The company's new directive may explain its recent acquisition of Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, and its buildup of a vast army of laser-equipped robots." Related: redesign of the Onion, now all archives available, yay!...
M E-L wrote this on August 31, 2005
Does this story hit a geek trifecta, or what? Nature reports: Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It...
M E-L wrote this on September 16, 2005
Map of national stereotypes based on Google searches for [Fill In Nationality] are known for... Via Waxy....
M E-L wrote this on January 11, 2006
Google Trends. Neat. Via Gadgetopia....
M E-L wrote this on May 11, 2006
With annotations. quik maps....
M E-L wrote this on June 30, 2006
Here's the capture device for the sorta-controversial Google Street Maps view: Below, the Imperial Probe Droid: Coincidence? I don't think so!...
M E-L wrote this on June 3, 2007
"Negroogle, The Affirmative Action Search Engine... It should have "reparations" automatically queued in the search box also" It's humor, and hard to explain, so just click through. [Link]...
Ennis wrote this on July 31, 2007
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