http://googlelibrarian.com/blog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:22:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wouldn't it be nice to be super rich like Google co-founder Sergey Brin? Space Adventures, a company that sells out of the world trips to tourists who are looking for a far out time, announced that Brin purchased a $35 Million dollar seat for a trip. Space Adventures has sent ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/sergey-brin-off-to-space/ Do you iGoogle? According to a Time Magazine article 20% of Google users now use iGoogle as their homepage. The article states: I asked Google how much traffic the chrome tulips drove to iGoogle, but a company spokesperson declined to comment, saying only that Google had received "positive feedback" from users. ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/1-in-5-google-users-using-igoogle-service/ Google Docs is a pretty great substitute for Microsoft Word. The only time I actually use Microsoft Word is at work because it is already pre-installed on all of the library PCs. At home and everywhere else, however, I use Google Docs. And why not? I ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/a-fascinating-little-known-feature-of-google-docs/ According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google's top priority this year is to make money off YouTube, the video-sharing site they acquired in 2006. In an interview which aired on CNBC Wednesday, Schmidt talked about Google's plans for YouTube and sent shares of the company up 4.7%. Schmidt revealed that ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/googles-top-priority-is-making-youtube-profitable/ One of the problems that search engines have had is its ability to give good results when users search for a specific picture. The folks over at Google think that they may have solved this with a new algorithm. Much like their pagerank system, ranking the name given to Google's ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/google-develops-pagerank-for-pictures/ Google Product Search, formerly known (which Google shouldn't have changed) as Froogle, has experienced a significant upgrade. The folks over at Google Operating System noticed that that the search engine now detects multiple products, and also lets you read reviews about the products. The moral of the story is that ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/google-product-search-gets-an-upgrade/ Libraries are turning to blogging more and more, as the medium of connecting with users becomes mainstream. What is one of the benefits of blogging for your library? Your presence in Google, and other search engines. The more content that you write the more likely a patron will be able ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/does-your-library-blog/ The Associated Press took a glimpse into the process behind Google's digital book project. The article states that 28 libraries are now working with Google scanning rare books that will be searchable through books.google.com. Google's much heralded partnership with the University of Michigan has yielded 1 Million total books ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/a-glimpse-inside-the-google-book-project/ Google is throwing us some curve balls. The folks over at a Blog called Pingdom have stumbled across some strange names that the search engine has registered. Among the strangest are 30dayfitness.com, bayareaburritos.com, and bankgoogle.com. Perhaps Google wants people to have enough money to buy their burritos, and then get so ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/google-wants-to-get-into-banking-fitness-and-burrito-business/ One of the most frequent questions I seem to receive from people just passing by the library is information on bus routes. As you may or may not be aware, our friends at Google have taken it upon themselves to make looking up bus route information as easy as using ... http://googlelibrarian.com/blog/google-transit-solves-the-headache-of-looking-up-public-transportation-routes/