Considering importing my Google+ activity to SEB.

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Part of the reason that my frequency of blogging has gone down over the past couple of years is because of my heavy use of Google Reader for keeping track of RSS feeds. Up until yesterday, Reader had a built-in sharing system where people who were following me could see what I thought was . . . → Read More: Considering importing my Google+ activity to SEB.

Happy Halloween from SEB.

It’s the time of the year again! Here’s hoping your goody bags are stuffed full and you have a frighteningly good time!

To help you get in the mood, here’s a video from YouTuber KJ92508′s 2011 Halloween Light show. He did a great job last year and it appears they’ve added to it this year:

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What kittens search for.

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When I go to bed at night I often leave my PC on with the monitor turned off and I usually leave Firefox running at the Google homepage. Given Cuddle’s propensity for walking on my keyboard every chance he gets, this results in some interesting Google searches awaiting me upon waking the next morning.

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Google Zeitgeist 2010

One of the upsides of being the world’s most popular search engine is that you get a good idea of what the world is paying attention to. Which brings us to the Google Zeitgeist 2010. An aggregation of the billions of searches done at Google over the past year which you can browse to see . . . → Read More: Google Zeitgeist 2010

Google’s inclusion of Twitter in searches is stunningly fast.

Google has added a number of new features over the past few months that I’m just starting to play with. Two of them are integration of real-time tweets from Twitter into search results and the ability to sort search results by how recent they are. Sure, I had heard that Google was going to be . . . → Read More: Google’s inclusion of Twitter in searches is stunningly fast.

The Top 10 search terms for September 2008.

Here’s a list of the top 10 search terms that brought people to SEB in last month:

disney dive in underwear stupid evil bastard horus jesus horus and jesus sims 2 sex americans are stupid producttestpanel.com stupidevilbastard xorg driver s3 savage angels trumpet

Some of those threads are surprisingly old and yet they continue to . . . → Read More: The Top 10 search terms for September 2008.

Has the web just gotten even less anonymous?

According to this video (and this article), there are now services that can pinpoint exactly where a Google search is coming from, down to the exact address. While many of us have known that the search terms we enter in search engines aren’t exactly secret, there has always been the assumption (correctly?) that who is . . . → Read More: Has the web just gotten even less anonymous?

T-Mobile about to unveil new phone based on Google’s Android.

If you’re at all curious what a cellphone based on Google’s Android platform would be like then you may want to check out the live streaming T-Mobile G1 with Google Press Conference that’s due to start in a few minutes at 10:30AM EST. This is the first phone based on Google’s mobile OS and there’s . . . → Read More: T-Mobile about to unveil new phone based on Google’s Android.

Google Chrome EULA grants Google a license to anything you create while using Chrome. [Updated!]

Update @ 4:15PM: Well that didn’t take long. Google contacted the folks at ArsTechnica.com saying the EULA is a mistake and will be corrected ASAP and the changes will be retroactive for folks who have already downloaded the software:

Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company . . . → Read More: Google Chrome EULA grants Google a license to anything you create while using Chrome. [Updated!]

Google launches its own browser called “Chrome.”

Having four browsers to choose from (IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera) not enough for you? Then you’re in luck as Google will be launching one as well:

The free browser, called “Chrome,” is supposed to be available for downloading Tuesday in more than 100 countries for computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Google said . . . → Read More: Google launches its own browser called “Chrome.”