I'm highlighting these whiteboard sketches from 2006 that map out Google's master plan, detailing the interconnected ecosystem of search, advertising, and content services they built to organize the world's information.
I argue that Google's quality may decline after its IPO due to the conflict between user needs and shareholder demands for revenue. Moving from one master to two risks prioritizing ads over search integrity.
I’ve checked out the launch of Google Co-op, which enables deep content search and sharing, and Google Trends, a tool for analyzing search volume patterns over time, much like a customizable Google Zeitgeist.
I explore a resource for searching Google searches, a meta-search technique to discover specialized Google tools. It helps find niche search services and hidden features within the Google ecosystem that standard web queries might miss.
I'm highlighting the launch of Google Finance and Google Mars, two new services providing market data and high-resolution planetary imagery. These tools represent Google's early expansion into niche data domains like financial services and astronomy.
I found a simple way to host GitHub Pages without needing a master branch on the remote. By mapping my local master to the remote gh-pages branch in .git/config, I can push web content directly to the live site.
