Tag: ‘google’ · TangleBones

Posts in Google Reader from Yahoo!’s MMA Experts Blog

Here’s what was wait­ing for me in my feed reader this morning:

1. The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little tike
2. The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little one
3. Sham­rock says brother beat Kimbo
4. Rogers shreds Sham­rock and calls Kimbo the ‘Black Yeti’
5. Sham­rock says brother beat Kimbo
6. Sham­rock says brother beats Kimbo
7. Rogers calls out Kimbo, shreds Shamrock

I don’t know if this is a Google Reader prob­lem or a Yahoo! prob­lem, but none of my other feeds do this, so I’m pre­sum­ing Yahoo! still has some work to do.

An Open Letter to Google, Re: Google Apps For Your Domain

Dear Google,

I think it’s pretty clear that I love you. I mean, I did every­thing I could to get into the Gmail beta as soon as pos­si­ble, I held con­tests to give away Gmail invites, I try to con­vince every­one I know to use Google prod­ucts, and I only ever use Google for search­ing. Every prod­uct you guys come up with, I’m will­ing to try. And most of them I like!

So when the Google engi­neer who was fixing our search appli­ance at my old job tried to talk me into using Google Apps for Your Domain (GAfYD) to host my email, I was a will­ing con­vert. I mean, it’s Gmail but with my (not so) cool domain name! I duti­fully updated my MX records, for­warded all of my old mail, and started enjoy­ing the high life. Sort of.

You see, half of your apps don’t seem to know about GAfYD. My Google Reader account has to be tied to my Gmail account. Since I don’t ever get any email from the Reader team, this isn’t a big deal. But today I got an email from the AdSense team let­ting me know that I could no longer use my GAfYD Gmail address to access AdSense, and must instead use my plain old Gmail address. That I don’t use. That just for­wards to my GAfYD Gmail. Which is kinda dumb. 

I know you’re a big com­pany. And I know that coor­di­na­tion between teams is hard. But can we please straighten this out? I know that you guys employ some of the smartest people in the world (Hey Kev!) over there, so let’s put those big brains to use!

With love,

Jemal

Not exactly what you were looking for

A lot of my traf­fic on this site is from search engines. And while I like to think that my site is a beacon of knowl­edge in the waste­land of the Inter­net, I get the feel­ing that not every­one is find­ing what they were look­ing for.

Google’s Web­mas­ter Tools lets you see what search terms led people to your site, as well as what your aver­age search rank­ing is for those terms. Here’s what I have for the last week:

Some of those people got what they were look­ing for. But who­ever searched for “suck me” prob­a­bly didn’t want an arti­cle about comic books. And while I did write about Batman, I don’t host any tor­rents to down­load that issue.

So, I’d like to apol­o­gize to free-​loaders and porn-​seekers: I’m sorry Google sent you here, but you’re going to have to look elsewhere.