Monday, October 17, 2005

This Blog’s Classics

Following up on Nielsen’s suggestion to include links to “classic hits” on your blog, here’s a selection of mine (post a comment to have other articles included):

Misc

• Google Search Tips 2005
• Googler Blogs About Work (Mark Jen got fired for blogging too openly at work)
• CHI, a Collaborative Human Interpreter
• National Vanguard in Google News (this “white pride” site was later removed from Google News after heavy protests)
• Google Translator, the Universal Language
• The History of Google Contests
• Steven Pemberton and XHTML 2
• Most-used Words Online
• Search Engine History
• SEO Inc Sent Me a Cease & Desist
• Google Orthography (the word “Google” in different sign languages/ codes)
• The Big Website “Don’t!” List
• Google Misspellings (domain squatters abuse Google brand popularity)
• What’s in a Search Engine Name?
• Illustrated Chronicles of the Portal Plague
• Google Rhymes
• VoteRank
• Bush Re-Election Frontpages
• Generation G
• Giant Google Art
• Nigritude Ultramarine and the Wiki Sandbox Effect (people complained about my approach, so I stopped this)
• Umberto Eco’s Information Overflow
• Magic Trick With Google
• Google Employees Who Blog

Tips and Tutorials

• Google API Tutorial
• Google Talk Tips
• Screen-scraping with PHP5
• Guide to VZones (if you ever played World’s Away on Compuserve, this might be for you)
• SEO 2004
• Optimizing Titles
• Google Q&A (Google can answer quite a few questions)
• Why Keywords in URLs Don’t Matter
• Cross-Engine Optimization, or How to Find the Holy Grail of Web Publishing

Essays

• Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
• Instead of Words
• On Schools
• Copyright
• Orkut and Ranking Friends
• Drei Parabel für eine vernetzte Welt (German)
• Germans

Tools, Experiments & Automated Analysis

• QML (my choose-your-own-adventure creation language/ tool)
• Tools You Might Have Missed (collection)
• Pixel Group (Real-time group drawing, Ajax-based)
• Denglish Translator
• John Kerry Speech
• Google Centuryshare Calculator
• Memecodes
• Findforward (this meta search engine compiles many of the ideas prototyped here)
• Google News Map
• Popularity Index
• Technology Mashup Matrix
• PageBoost and Positive Reinforcement
• The Clueless Top 20
• Feeeds
• Movie-Plot-o-Matic
• Google Logo Maker

Future

• The Google Future Top 10 (collection)
• Search Engines: Near and Distant Future
• The Future History of Movies
• Google Inventions of the Future, Part I

Fiction/ Poetry

• The PageRank 100 Incident
• The Online Brain
• Forty-two Reasons Why Intergalactic Hypertext Failed
• Hypersemantics
• A Strange Google Journey

Videos

• Google Brain
• Amiga Games
• Advanced Google
• From Blog to Book
• Sergey Speaks Out On China Issues
• Onpage 2 (a WYSIYWG, standards & browser-based CMS I programmed)
• The Google School
• Finger Flip-Flop (count binary numbers with your hands)

Humor

• What If Google Would Be Evil? (collection)
• Google Cartoon one, two, three
• Top 10 Things to Do With Your Gmail Spam
• The Ten Web Commandments
• CNN Lives
• What Famous People of the Past Would Have Googled
• Top 10 Signs You Are Addicted to Google
• Top 10 Special Purpose Shareware Programs You Probably Don’t Need
• 10 Google Headlines You Don’t Want to Read
• Spam Google
• If Things Could Blog, Part 1: The TV,
• Part II: The Elevator
• April Fool’s News 2005 (random fake news releases collected that day)
• Google News: Bush Arrested (Google fell for a parody)
• Googlepark
• Google Blog parody
• Rejected Google Holiday Logos
• Agency Speak (German)
• The Google Face Game
• Shaxian Delicacies
• You Gotta Love Chinese Copycat DVDs (I brought these home from my trip to China)
• The Google Superhero Costume Parade
• Imaginary Blog Posts From History
• A Farewell to Hotmail (after Gmail was released, I switched)
• We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Google
• Did DaVinci Invent the iPod?
• More Google Cartoons
• Even More Google Cartoons
• The End of the Internet
• Hard-to-spell Emails

Interviews

• Joe Harris, Blogging for Cash
• Terrence Gordon, Search Engine Optimizer
• Nicole Simon
• John Battelle
• Doug Cutting
• Google Answers Researcher Interviews (collection)
• Umberto Eco (short)
• The Ghosts of Steve Baldwin
• Michael Pedone
• Googlebot (OK, this belongs to the Fiction category as well)

Games

• The Google Image Quiz
• Click Red
• The Yahoo! Image Game
• Games for the Brain (my other games site)

Historical Google Releases

• Google Launches Gmail (March/ April 2004, also see my first look review)
• Google Maps (February 2005)
• Google Suggest (December 2004)
• Google Blog Search (September 2005)
• Google Scholar (November 2004)
• Google Video (January 2005)
• Google Print (December 2003)
• Google Deskbar (November 2003)
• Google Florida (one of the most talked about Google ranking updates)
• Google Down (this wouldn’t be quite as historical if not for the fact this is Google)
• Google Raises Word Limit to 32 (January 2005)
• Humble Google With 5 Billion Pages (September 2003)
• Google Introduces Blog of Their Own (May 2004)
• Google Groups 2 (May 2004)
• Google’s New Look (Experimental phase, March 2004, went live later that month)

Guest Bloggers

Terrence Gordon:

• In-House SEO and Outsourced PPC: A Good Match or a Couple of Oxymorons?
• Microsoft vs. Google for AOL: The Heavyweight Fight of the Year

Tadeusz Szewczyk:

• MSNBetter ThanGoogle

More in the archive.

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