Hey, I remember these from the days of Microsoft, but you don’t hear them about Google so much. Yet. Here’s one about Google taking the top adwords positions for various products and services that Google produces: “Google Cheats. Google holds the top advertisement (Adword) slot for the following key words: intranet, spreadsheet, documents, calendar, word …

A few years ago, I used to argue this topic with Flash designers at web design agencies. It is nice to be proved right. Users expectations of fast load times will rise, so increased bandwidth availability does not mean Flash will overtake HTML/CSS. The fastest load times users experience will become the expectation, and they …

A great way to shift a paradigm is to target schools. Get the next generation used to doing things your way, and, given time, you’ll be part of their lives. Compare Apple in the 80s: “Apple’s sustained growth during the early eighties was in large part due to its leadership in schools around the world, …

A judge orders Google to remove information posted online. “A judge on Wednesday ordered Google.com to remove remnants of personal information on Johnston County residents that still show up on its search engine.Johnston County officials mistakenly posted a file with thousands of names, addresses, Social Security numbers and cell phone numbers on the county Web …

Have you made enough on Google Adsense this year? If you have, there should be one of these coming your way soon. How much do you need to have made? Google don’t usually say, but triple figures a day is probably enough, maybe less….

If you’ve got a site in Google News, you can now use Google Sitemaps. “Freshness is important for news, so we recrawl all News Sitemaps frequently. The News Sitemaps XML definition lets you specify a publication date and time for each article to help us process fresh articles in timely fashion. You can also specify …

Google’s whiteboard. For posterity.