If you're anything like me then you probably run a handful of searches through Google each day. Have you ever wondered what happens when you hit "Return" or "Enter" on your keyboard? The folks over at PPC Blog have created an infographic to help us visualize how many considerations and actions take place in less than a second from when you initiate the search and before that results page loads.
Google News has been my go-to source for news and has served as my homepage since it was released in 2002. I have always liked how Google News allows me to see what's going on with top stories and then broken out by different interest areas such as Business, Technology, Entertainment, Local, and more. For each story listed, if I'm interested in reading other angles, Google News provides all of the other sources for a given story.
Imagine if you had been a fly on the wall during the inception of Google straight through to today when they're one of the most powerful brands in the world. That is exactly what Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain (affiliate link) by Richard L. Brandt does. From the back cover:
On a daily basis I will generally run through between 400-800+ feeds. Of those, I share the top posts, usually around 30 or so, that I think will be useful for you. Realizing that a majority of you don't follow my Google Reader feed or may use a different feed reader, I wanted to provide another option for you to access those articles.
By now, we're used to seeing a new Google logo on holidays or other special occasions. But today Google has added in an extra treat. Head over to Google and without anything in the search field, click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
If you've been keeping up on your reading of tech blogs, then you can't get away from all of the increased chatter over Google OS. Google continues to try revolutionizing the way we interact with the web. Google OS is going to change the way we work on a computer. Initially, the target will be netbooks and will change the way we think of the typical desktop. As Google explains:
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One of the primary websites that I check throughout the day is Google News. I have been in love with this website as a source of news since it was released several years ago. It allows me to quickly see what's going on in the world and if a particular story interests me, I can view several other news sources who have also reported on it. This is great for someone like me who likes to consume lots of information from as many different sources as possible.
Today's reviews are one about a company that everyone wants to know more about, Google, and the other about igniting the people in your company to do great things. First up is What Google Would Do? by Jeff Jarvis which I really enjoyed. Jeff broke the book up in a neat way and I really liked when he applied Google's success and theories to a litany of various industries. The second book is Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. You might recognize the two authors from their best-seller Raving Fans which you should've already read (and if you haven't, then buy it immediately!)
Google Profiles is your area in Google's universe where you can store and link all sorts of information about yourself. Why is this important? Because it's yet another area on the interwebs where you can have a presence which is discoverable by search engines, *cough*, especially that little one who made the profile page, Google.