Yesterday afternoon I came upon an invite to Schemer.com, a recommendation engine owned by Google that got a little press within the last few weeks. The idea is that, with help from friends, you can discover things to do — big or small stuff — track what you want to do, what you’ve done, etc. [...]
Read more →For my money, the best airfare app on the iPhone is Google’s “On The Fly” — the latest update has all kinds of great search features and beats Kayak hands down when it comes to finding airfares. I’ve been using it a lot lately because the McGees are thinking about a return trip to Hawaii [...]
Read more →I don’t know if Google+ will be a success in the long run, and I strongly suspect that it’ll never advance beyond being a facebook/Twitter hybrid for the tech crowd, but this much I know: The killer feature of Google+ isn’t video chat or anything else. It’s this: No matter what Google service/property you’re on, [...]
Read more →This is exciting. As you can plainly see from the image below, I am now the proud and official owner of David Mihm, Inc.. If Google says it, it must be true! Actually, this is a promo that Google sent to David and — as his handwritten note shows — they somehow made me the [...]
Read more →Google has a large campus down in Mountain View. Large. The main campus is big enough on its own, but they’ve also spread out to several other buildings in the surrounding area. To make travel easier for employees going from one building to the next, they also have little multi-colored bikes that you can just [...]
Read more →About this time last night, I was working on a blog post for Search Engine Land about the major search engines and how much they spend lobbying the government. In looking over the numbers, I had decided that my headline was about the enormous jump in how much Google has spent in the past few [...]
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