The Wall Street Journal has published an article recently titled “You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well” that’s been making the rounds on various popular blogs. Reminds me of what I found when I Googled myself a short while ago. I took a screen shot of it and put it on my Flickr. In […]

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A long time ago, before I bought this domain and set up this blog, I Googled myself to see what came up. What came up, was Neil McIntyre Photog­raphy, at neilmcintyre.com. It’s taken about a year, but I’m now the #1 result when you Google me. Great success! On a related note, I keep reading […]

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An article in The Economist’s December 23, 2006 holiday double issue caught my attention. It reported on how Arizona State University was converting their email system over to use Google’s free hosted service, under the “Google Apps for your Domain” offering that I blogged about back in August last year. I’m still using the service […]

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It has been announced recently that Dr. Eric Schmidt, currently the CEO of Google, is joining Apple’s Board of Directors. Boards are respon­sible for overseeing management, protecting share­holder interests and overall strategy. The move has been hailed as a signal of future partnership between Google and Apple in their joint fights against Microsoft. I have […]

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No, Google isn’t managing invest­ments. They’re still devoted to “organizing the world’s infor­mation,” but that doesn’t matter to the SEC. A rule enacted in 1940 could cause increased regulatory headaches for the company. Companies whose securities make up more than 40 percent of their assets can fall under restric­tions that govern the mutual fund industry. […]

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