Posted by Tom Foremski @ 8:09 pm
Gabriel García Márquez wrote: “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
Sometime these lives intersect on the Internet. And this is why people are encouraged to be watchful about what they do on the Internet. The advice is to not engage in anything that might come back to haunt you because Google, in its zeal to index everything it can find, will find things that you might not want to be found.
But is this really true? I did an experiment and Googled “Tom Foremski.” Google found 135,000 references. I started clicking to see if I could find the very last search result, number 135,000. But I couldn’t, I could only get as far as 552 results before I got this message:
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 552 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
I clicked on the “omitted results” and got even fewer results, just 196 links. Either way, the most pages viewable that were indexed “Tom Foremski” was 552 — just 0.4 percent of the total index.
So it’s not true that an employer, or anyone else, can easily find potentially embarassing things about you through a simple search.
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While being careful about what you post is still good advice, I have even better advice: be very active on the Internet — anything bad will be diluted into the long tail of you.
According to Google, a knol is "a unit of knowledge, an authoritative article about a specific topic." The Google Knol service just reached 100,000 articles and it's finally being recognized as a potential cialis news competitor to Wikipedia. If you'd like to learn more, here’s how you can get started reading and contributing to Google Knol!
Reading It
Reading a Knol is simple! All you have to do is point your Web browser to http://knol.google.com and search for whatever you'd like to read about. The search is powered by Google, so you know it’s good!
As you can see, there are a lot of Knols (774) about Barack Obama, ranging from his foreign policies to buying cheap Obama memorabilia. Knols can be written by anyone, so the content varies quite a bit.
Writing Your Own Knol
To write a Knol of your own, go to http://knol.google.com again and click on Write a Knol.
Sign in to your Google account (if you don't have one, you'll need to sign up first).
Click on the Write a Knol button again. You’ll then see the basic structure for writing a Knol. You can choose your license as well, which I think is great! Pick from three Creative Commons licenses (saying that people can use it, but with conditions) or All Rights Reserved (only under limited circumstances can people use it).
Happy Knolling, my friends!
February 7th, 2009
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Information Week says that if Gmail’s growth continues at the same rate, we could see Gmail’s user share overtake Hotmail by the end of the year — an impressive feat.
Between December 2007 and December 2008, Gmail’s number of unique monthly visitors in the United States grew 43%, from 20.8 million to 29.6 million, according to ComScore. Windows Live Hotmail lost 5% of its unique monthly visitors during this period, falling from 45.7 million to 43.5 million.
Google still has a long way to go to catch up to Yahoo, but it’s realistic to think that it could happen as soon as 2011 if you look at current growth rates. Part of the reason Google’s email service is becoming so popular is their ability to push out updates and useful features extremely quickly.
For example, one of the newest features they added to Gmail Labs is “multiple inboxes”. This feature is extremely useful for me — when I star a message, or save a draft, it always stays on my main page instead of gradually working its way down my inbox, and then inevitably out of sight (and mind). Previously, starred messages were only accessible by clicking the “starred” link in the sidebar.
Which email service do you use? Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo? Have you noticed people around you making the switch to Gmail? Let’s hear what you think in the Talk Back!
Ever since the Google Street View program was released in May 2007, many people have been complaining about the privacy issues associated with it. Apart from seeing their houses on Google's Web site, people have reported seeing themselves on the Internet as well. Now, I'd say that's taking it a bit too far. If you agree, here’s how you can keep your home and yourself a little cialis daily 5mg more private!
1.) If you don’t want your house to show up in the Google Street View program because of privacy issues, all you have to do is click on the Report a Concern button, shown below.
2.) Next, choose Privacy Concerns for the reason why you don’t want the image shown in Street View.
3.) Now, describe why you don’t want the image in Street View and then enter in your e-mail address.
4.) Next, move the Street View image until the red rectangle is centered over your property.
That's it! Google will then review your concerns and delete the image if they agree with you. Yes!
Google has unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view.
The new feature — called Multiple Inboxes — allows users to have multiple viewing panes open simultaneously without having to open another browser window. The upgrade to the web email software gives users a quick view of important labels as well as of saved searches.
cialis chicago align=”justify” style=”margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;”>Google software engineer Octavian ‘Vivi’ Costache explained in a company blog post why he used his ’20 percent time’ to develop the Gmail feature:
“I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my ‘flash’ label, everything about paragliding goes under ‘flying’, and they all skip my inbox because that’s how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the ‘flash’ label first, then click on ‘paragliding’, etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once.”
The move could help those who use their Gmail accounts for multiple personal email lists, as well as for work.
