An Anthropology of Google’s Search Experiments (with all data exposed, of course). Never will happen, but we get some tantalizing hints in this post on the Google blog: At any given time, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments on Google sites all over the world. I’ll start…

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Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is…

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Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is…

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(photo Jeff Kravitz) I have to ask. After seeing them live, I have to wonder. They did rip my head off, as did Metallica at Bonnaroo. They have this way of being both ridiculously tight, as well as totally psychedelic. Not easy to pull off. What do you all…

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I hear you all. What is Battelle on about, all this music stuff, all this non search stuff? I am sorry, but you have to trust me, it’s going somewhere. I’m following a hunch, of a sorts. Today some bankers from Piper Jaffrey came by, and they asked me…

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Here’s the streaming output of CrowdFire: You can grab your own here. AFP coverage here….

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Google launches Ad Manager to the public and Google Suggest. Meanwhile, Street View keeps pushing the big question in our society: Where do we end and the public begins?…

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CrowdFire was consuming. It will take me some time to get back in the groove. I have to say, I’m really, really floored by what our teams did on site at Outside Lands, and what CrowdFire has the potential to be. Check it out, here. And here’s my shooting,…

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I will be at the festival today, helping to light the CrowdFire. So stoked….

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I am a fan of PhotoSynth. I hope Microsoft gets some traction with this. Brady’s take here. My earlier coverage….

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I find this tidbit, gleaned from coverage of SES, fascinating. Apparently Bill Gates is still engaged at Microsoft, at least on one issue: Search. From a piece covering the integration of Powerset into Microsoft’s search index: However the news isn’t all bleak, as Microsoft believes strongly in the potential…

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Lisa Gold (via Cory and BB) has a blog about book research. I love this post about an oft repeated Samuel Johnson quote. The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.” — Samuel Johnson I thought this famous Samuel Johnson quote would be an…

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A Forbes piece on Google’s latest investment in alternative energy. We’ll have Larry Brilliant, head of Google.org, at Web 2 this year… … on Tuesday, Google.org, the philanthropic arm of search giant Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), announced it would try to help spur companies to…

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Tim brings up a very good point here. In short, he’s worried about the second click issue, write large (yep, I just linked to myself). I’d like to put out two guidelines for anyone adopting this “link to myself” strategy: 1. Ensure that no more than 50% of the…

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Working on CrowdFire (sorry, I know, but it’s a big deal to me), as well as Web 2 and tons of other FM stuff, and trying to not ruin my family’s time on Island. So I’m going to be dark on the blog for the most part……

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