Ryan Martinsen

Google Analytics Annoyance

Posted by Ryan  August 24, 2007

Am I the only one annoyed that you can’t just type in https://www.google.com/analytics/ ?

Dear Google,

Thank you for your wonderful service. Could you please fix this?

Thanks,
Ryan

Update: You have to type https://www.google.com/analytics/home/ Why? Why /home? Is there really a good reason? Strange.

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brrreeeport

Posted by Ryan  February 17, 2006

Joining in the brrreeeport posting fun started by Scoble. A few days ago he posted about the misleading numbers search engines (such as Google) seem to show.

When I search Google for “brrreeeport” I get “about 23,400″ results from Google. If I click through to the end of the results it only goes to page 40 (394 results). That page says “In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 394 already displayed.” When you click the link to show more of the results it allows you to go to page 98 (977 results).

What the heck, Google? Yahoo shows 1,830 results. How on earth can two search engines have such a huge difference in numbers? Makes me wonder how many pages they REALLY have indexed. Google claims something like 8 billion. Yeah, right.

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Google Reader

Posted by Ryan  February 16, 2006

I just saw Google Reader this morning. It’s been a while since I’ve really kept up with the whole feed reader world so I really don’t know how it compares to what’s out there nowadays, but it’s pretty cool. I doubt it’ll get me back to the days of reading lots of feeds. What would it take for that to happen? I’m not really sure. I haven’t really liked anything I’ve tried enough to really use it. The only one I’ve stuck with is Thunderbird’s simple implementation and that’s only because I use Thunderbird for e-mail.

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