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“Cindy McCaffrey, Google’s top PR official who was also responsible generally for marketing and communications, will leave the company, becoming in some ways the most senior person to leave.”

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Information World Review: “In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will ‘ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage’. Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005.”

A couple of people wanted to know if getting spidered by Googlebot will get you into Google. So back to basics we shall go, then you can read about the re-opened service for getting spidered, and the book where I tell you how to predict when and where the Googlebot spider will be.

There’s a quote from the page below, but first, take a look at when my site was last spidered by Google (click on “Google’s cache), and how many of my pages appear in Google.

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Um. Yeah. I should have turned in an abstract for that to Random House or one of Bantam Dell’s competitors.

Dang.

PublishersWeekly.com – All About Google: “The Google Story, which traces the search engine from its founding by a pair of graduate students in 1998 to its global reach and multibillion-dollar revenues today.”

It seems like every time someone writes a new article showing how Google isn’t just a search engine anymore, they add a new feature. So what is Google trying to do by including all this information?

Apparently making sure they have a hit for any search you might do….

USATODAY.com – Google units include social networking, photos, maps: “Putting more information into its mammoth index was the impetus for Google’s recent groundbreaking deal to digitize five huge library collections, including the New York Public Library, Stanford and Oxford. Many of the books should be scanned and available for reading online by early next year.

But Google’s expansion plans go way beyond dusting off old books and making them available to the masses. In the past few months, Google has added several offerings that seemingly have nothing to do with search”

I’ve been pretty spam-free with Gmail, as any message it thinks is spam goes directly to the spam folder. My big problem? Getting to decide for myself what is spam and what isn’t. I’d like a better way of controlling what falls into it.

But if you have Gmail and the spam issues are getting to ya, try the ideas suggested here:

Slashdot | Some Ways To Avoid Spam On Gmail

The Google/Yahoo Rivalry in 2005: “The Google/Yahoo Rivalry in 2005

The AP’s Michael Liedtke offers a look at what 2005 might bring to the Google/Yahoo rivalry.”

Google Blogscoped often comes up with funny ways to teach simple Google-related things. Read their interview with the Googlebot.

In Blog About This I talk about interviews with inanimate objects as blog posts and this is a great example.