Comments on: Google News http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google_news Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: steven e streight aka vaspers the grate http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16336 steven e streight aka vaspers the grate Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:38:51 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16336 <p>I test drove the Google Page Creator yesterday for a short while. While I applaud Google, as a hardcore Googlephile, I still must say I'm sadly underwhelmed.</p> <p>The web page templates are not very attractive. I have trouble getting to the Edit HTML tool. I cannot at this point generate a fair usability review, but I quickly ran into some real frustrations.</p> <p>Is this a Web Page version of Google's Blogger/Blogspot?</p> <p>As a beta, it is not pretending to be ready for full rollout to the general public, so I will try to more fully explore it later.</p> <p>Thanks for the link to it, John. What do you think of it? </p> <p>;^)</p> I test drove the Google Page Creator yesterday for a short while. While I applaud Google, as a hardcore Googlephile, I still must say I’m sadly underwhelmed.

The web page templates are not very attractive. I have trouble getting to the Edit HTML tool. I cannot at this point generate a fair usability review, but I quickly ran into some real frustrations.

Is this a Web Page version of Google’s Blogger/Blogspot?

As a beta, it is not pretending to be ready for full rollout to the general public, so I will try to more fully explore it later.

Thanks for the link to it, John. What do you think of it?

;^)

]]> By: Brandon Byers http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16335 Brandon Byers Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:30:24 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16335 <p>The Miro logo was taken down ... Seems the "current owners" of Miro's works feel their copyright was infringed, and that G should at least have asked them first. On the one hand, it seems somewhat silly, as whether G used parts of Miro works or not, it serves to promote his work, period ... on the other hand, this may be seen as another case of G doing whatever the hell it wants, and asking permission? Google doesn't need to do this, as they've always got the best intentions at heart, and you can trust them ... </p> <p>The "Google Cars" was interesting when I tried it, but while looking for a used car ... well, I already *know* that the location is nearby, so showing the lat/lon in those SERPs isn't that useful for me. What *would* be useful, though, would be an indication of what that car's mileage is. I'd like to see a drop-down to sort results by that. Perhaps I'm more pragmatic than most. </p> <p>Finally, the flash ads ... I just don't get what's unusual about this. Is it ads for G promoting G within an AdSense box? Now *that* would be something. But flash ads about G in and of themselves ... I've been seeing those on Slashdot for years now. </p> The Miro logo was taken down … Seems the “current owners” of Miro’s works feel their copyright was infringed, and that G should at least have asked them first. On the one hand, it seems somewhat silly, as whether G used parts of Miro works or not, it serves to promote his work, period … on the other hand, this may be seen as another case of G doing whatever the hell it wants, and asking permission? Google doesn’t need to do this, as they’ve always got the best intentions at heart, and you can trust them …

The “Google Cars” was interesting when I tried it, but while looking for a used car … well, I already *know* that the location is nearby, so showing the lat/lon in those SERPs isn’t that useful for me. What *would* be useful, though, would be an indication of what that car’s mileage is. I’d like to see a drop-down to sort results by that. Perhaps I’m more pragmatic than most.

Finally, the flash ads … I just don’t get what’s unusual about this. Is it ads for G promoting G within an AdSense box? Now *that* would be something. But flash ads about G in and of themselves … I’ve been seeing those on Slashdot for years now.

]]> By: steven e streight aka vaspers the grate http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16334 steven e streight aka vaspers the grate Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:28:46 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/04/google_news.php#comment-16334 <p>Google Keyword Tool (external): what do you think of it?</p> Google Keyword Tool (external): what do you think of it?

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