While we all love Google, I’ve found a couple mildly irritating usability issues that have, surprisingly, been overlooked. First off, from the Google home page, if you type your query into the search box and then hit one of the tabs, say “Images”, you won’t actually end up with search results for that search term […]

Guess who’s #1 in MSN’s new, not-yet-finished search engine for “miserable failure.” Yep, it’s Dubbya. Specifically, his biography page on Whitehouse.gov. (In case you’re curious, there’s no mention of “miserable” or “failure” anywhere on his page). Gee, that’s just like Google. Good job, Microsoft… not! With all the talk about “Google bombing” being bad for […]

Look at the way Google opens Yahoo’s stock quote page in a frame with Google’s logo in the top left. Admittedly they also provide links to Fool.com, MSN MoneyCentral, etc. And they probably have some sort of agreement that they are allowed to do it. However, this is what people used to do in the […]

Non-profits rejoice! The Google Grants program is taking applications again. If you’re unfamiliar with Google Grants, it’s an allowance of free Google AdWords advertising for worthy non-profits. Here’s a short description of the program from Google: “The Google Grants program is designed to help nonprofit organizations like yours further their goals and objectives through targeted, […]