w3logics

I love this: the goo.gl url shortener is now open to everyone! I know the folks that worked on this, so let me answer a few quick questions. Q: Why are you doing this? A: Google needed a url shortener for its own products where we knew the shortener wouldn’t go away. We also wanted [...]

I wanted to post about Google’s new two-factor authentication announcement. Two-factor authentication is something you have (e.g. a phone) and something you know (e.g. a password). It’s a Big Deal because if your account or business has two-factor authentication, those accounts are immediately less likely to be phished, hijacked, or otherwise abused. There’s a neat [...]

The blogosphere is absorbing today’s announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts. Google’s web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: – We want the most comprehensive index of the web. We explore ways to crawl the web deeper, faster, and better, from increasing [...]