Goodbye, goo.gl
After August 25, 2025, links with the form http://goo.gl/*/ will no longer return results.
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An AI-free Google search.
Google, what the?
Search results for "national deans list."
OCA, immobile again
After a brief effort using mobile view with this blog, I’ve switched back to desktop view. I have my reasons.
OCA mobile
Google doesn’t like the absence of mobile view.
Google to delete inactive accounts
Long story short: if you want your Blogger blog to outlast you, you need to make your, uhh, arrangements.
.mov and .zip
Google has created eight new top-level domains, including .mov and .zip. Imagine the hilarity when someone clicks to open what appears to be a .mov or .zip file and gets taken to a sketchy website. Taken, indeed.
Prisoners of Google
From the “Online Shopping” episode of the podcast You’re Wrong About, an exchange between Amanda Mull and host Sarah Marshall: AM: Google is at this point like basically a utility. SM: I don’t know how you could live without it, honestly. Oh gosh. You could use DuckDuckGo
Append reddit
“One of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be”: Charlie Warzel, “The Open Secret of Google Search” (The Atlantic ).
Google, ugh
From The Washington Post: “Google is manipulating browser extensions to stifle competitors, DuckDuckGo CEO says.” Of course that can only happen if you’re using Chrome.
“Orange Crate Shark”
Hum for the Google app and it returns the wrong song.
The new Blogger interface again
W.G. Sebald would not be happy with the new Blogger.
The legacy Blogger interface
A legacy should get preferential treatment and be admitted to a top school despite a mediocre or less than mediocre academic record. Google, please treat the legacy Blogger interface accordingly and give it every unmerited advantage available.
A readable URL for a Google search
A handy tool that makes a readable, clutter-free link for Google search results.
A note to the Google Maps lady
It’s “Easton, Pennsylvania,” not “Easton Pa.”
Goodbye and good riddance, Glass
“Perhaps Google Glass, like Odysseus, will someday return. But I can’t imagine many people pining away.”
A little Google indignity
Proving that I’m not a robot when I’m signed into my account and replying to a comment to my own blog. Sheesh.
Spam follies
“I’d rather delete these comments — about thirty so far — than have Orange Crate Art advertise Android apps. No thanks, Google.”
Blogger’s new direction in word verification
With no explanation and no notice, Blogger recently changed its word-verification practice.
How to disable Chrome Notifications
No thanks to Google for enabling without a user’s permission.
Google Glass on the road
“Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass.”
Google, auto-enhancing images
Sign up. Turn off. Drop out.
Coming soon from Google
“If the Official Gmail Blog is to be believed, anyone using Google+ will soon be able to use Gmail to send e-mail to any other Google+ user. The sender will not need to know the sendee’s e-mail address.”
How to salute a professor
I can think of three explanations for wanting to know how to salute a professor in an e-mail.
Partners in Glass
Creepy.
FeedBurner, broken
You know that something is seriously wrong when even the usually dormant FeedBurner Status Blog acknowledges the problem.
Goodbye, Google Reader
“12,000+ Orange Crate Art subscribers use Google Reader. What’s next for you?”
Mark Hurst on Google Glass
Mark Hurst: “The Google Glass feature that (almost) no one is talking about is the experience — not of the user, but of everyone other than the user.”
Google Glass
John Gruber: “Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.”
A pencil-sharpener problem
“Write a story problem: 7,241 broken pencil sharpeners.”