The Google Bloggers have reported on the State of the Google Union, creating this post titled Helping computers understand language. I’m a big fan of Google, but in this case (and in a previous post titled How I Know that Search Engines Haven’t Mastered Semantics), I have to take the side of the devils advocate [...]

Back in March of 2008, Time published an article titled How Google Earth Ate Our Town.  Big news for our “old coal mining town” of 78.000.  We had replaced San Francisco, the 13th largest city in the US as the capital of Google Earth. I’ll let you read the article, because I want to talk [...]

My previous post on the new Google features was published today (June 5th) at 11:48am The screenshot of the search result below was taken about 5 minutes ago.  I’m not certain why this post was indexed so quickly while others remain un-updated. It definitely calls for experimenting. I do know that blogs tend to get [...]

Google recently rolled out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions… read the complete article here It’s true, folks.  I did a search using their suggested phrases.  “spice market review shrimp starter dessert” yields results, [...]

I want to use an example to explain why local search is important. I created a company, Acme Widgets Inc., that has an office in Nanaimo and an office in Courtenay. They each serve the surrounding areas, like the Comox Valley, and Ladysmith right through Lantzville. Acme wants to have a website so customers can [...]