Google Search History – Your personalized search statistics

February 6th, 2006 - 

When you start using Googles features as much as I am, you start discovering the benefits across all the Google tools.

Google Search History Calendar View
Search History
One nice feature is the ability to review and search what you have been searching for on Google. When logged in, Google will save your searchresults and can show them to you over time.

Google is working on personalized searches, as well as geographical searches. Your searchpatterns help to present relevant searches in your SERP (search engine result page). You may dislike and have second opinions on the storing/monitoring of your search, but they do monitor and use that information. Soon the issue of privacy and democracy will rise in importance.

Google bookmarks
If you have a personalized Google-page (consider it if you don’t). When you add bookmarks, you can have those bookmarks shown in a dedicated page http://www.google.com/bookmarks/. No obvious links are shown to the Trends, showing your statistics, but you can access them here: http://www.google.com/bookmarks/trends?.

Google Search History
Have a look at my stats here: Google Search History

The calendar gives you the option of selecting and viewing searches on specific dates:
Google Search History Calendar View

You can view:

  • Top searches, Top sites, Top clicks
  • Monthly search activity
  • Daily search activity
  • Hourly search activity
  • New queries similar to your searches

I have my personalized Google homepage www.google.com/ig, my Gmail www.gmail.com, Google analytics Gogle sitemap, Google AdSense, Google groups and some more, and enjoy most of them. Occasionally I tend to bug Google with support-issues and ideas for new features. Wow they must get flooded by users like me :)

Google+search+history, Search

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Search blogs with Google Blog Search

February 6th, 2006 - 

Google is blogging, and … is also indexing blogs – Blog search. Google does an good job, others are still ahead. Never mind who is ahead, Google is probably taking that gold medal too, and advancing to the number one position soon.

Simplicity rules once again, and this time even more simpel than ever before. Google frontpages are living by the rule that the most trafficking services reach the frontpage, and no more that seven is shown. The Blog search has only one service, the ability to search blogs :) Oh yea, and an advances search options. My favourite option here is the option to search posts in date ranges. I would love to have that option on the ordinary websearch ! That’s a wish Google, if you read this post :)

Go search Google Blog Search

Search+blogs, Google+blog+search

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Watch NBA video on Google Video

January 30th, 2006 - 

Sometimes the Google guys must be having so much fun. With a website like google, most things are possible. All that content, all those features, and surely all that time they spend at work, must end up in some funny features.

I’m sure they made this little feature some day late at work, when they needed a break – or heard from their friend that had been at home watching the games in tv.

They’ve made a special page for Google video, “Watch your favorite NBA games“.

Note the little addiction in the searchfield. More specific options are surely available on Google Video – reveiled over time.

Officially, the “Team:Name_your_NBA_team” search, is no where to see.

Search Google Video by title

“Title:”
“title:Subject” example: “title:adwords

“Team:”
“team:Los_Angeles_Lakers” example: “team:Los_Angeles_Lakers

See if you can make the team-feature work on other teams than NBA, and post em here :)

Read more on NBA games on video

AdSense adcoloring – strange I thought ugly banners performed best

January 26th, 2006 - 

I heard that the ugly sites and banners perform the best. However, AdSense states that banners that are designed to match the look and feel of your website performs best.

Then why does AdSense design banners like this :) :

Quote AdSense:

Your AdSense ad units should complement your overall site design, not detract from the user experience. Ad units that mirror the look and feel of your site can surprisingly increase the effectiveness of your ads. Blending ad colors into the background of your site can soften ad appearance and combat ad blindness, while the ‘Ads by Goooooogle’ branding distinguishes AdSense ad units from your site content.

Color your ads beautiful

Google New Years additions

January 2nd, 2006 - 
No new years additions at google ?

What’s up Google. No new features launched at new years ? I did think that Google was, as everyone else, working hard the last days before christmas, in order to be able to go home and celebrate christmas with familily and friends. The last part of 2005 Google had a busy time announcing new features. it seems that the competition is warming up in Seattle, perhaps this had an influence on Googles leavel of stress.

New years Google tools

I was however hoping for a real new years happening, a launch of a new big time feature. Personally I’d like Google to improve their personalized portal, speed it up and improve options to personalize use-and-feel, design, colors etc. – still keeping it “simple and stupid” (KISS principle).

However busy they are, the founders still have time to fund a Hollywood movie San Francisco Chronicle for an old friend.