Top 20 of 102 Total Search Strings

# Hits Search String

1 99 44.00% google building
2 6 2.67% google search blog
3 4 1.78% gmail status
4 4 1.78% gtalk treo
5 2 0.89% equant google
6 2 0.89% equant united states weak
7 2 0.89% google chinese
8 2 0.89% google nasdaq
9 2 0.89% google talk login
10 2 0.89% google versus yahoo
11 2 0.89% gsearchblog
12 2 0.89% gtalk tips
13 2 0.89% how to make the google logo
14 2 0.89% http://googleblog.blogspot.com/getlostandfound.mp3
15 2 0.89% mp3 google search-string hacks
16 2 0.89% phone
17 2 0.89% share
18 2 0.89% web
19 1 0.44% adding a google search box to a blog
20 1 0.44% amazon book scanning

It looks like our most popular term by far is Google Building. Google is building many things, from new offices to new software, from computing clusters to dark fiber networks. There's also a more literal way to look at it: the famous Google building, the Googleplex.

According to Wikipedia, the Googleplex "is the Google company headquarters, located in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Francisco. The word Googleplex is a play on the word googolplex, and a portmanteau of Google and complex—googolplex being the name given to 10googol, or one followed by a googol zeros, and the headquarters comprising a complex of buildings. The building is unlike many modern company headquarters; contained within the sprawling complex are shade lamps, giant rubber balls, and other unusual niceties reminiscent of the dot-com boom. The complex is located in Mountain View, California, close to the Shoreline Park wetlands."

September
Top 20 of 63 Total Search Strings

# Hits Search String

1 12 12.00% google secure access
2 8 8.00% gsearchblog
3 4 4.00% http://gsearchblog.com/2005/09/google-growth-grief.html
4 3 3.00% google blog search
5 3 3.00% google calendar
6 3 3.00% google talk treo
7 2 2.00% ''google secure access''
8 2 2.00% angelo embuldeniya
9 2 2.00% google browser
10 2 2.00% google toolbar firefox
11 2 2.00% gtalk smack
12 2 2.00% http://gsearchblog.com/2005/08/smack-supports-google-talk.html
13 2 2.00% imov messenger enterprise google talk download
14 2 2.00% smack gtalk
15 2 2.00% spreadgoogletalk
16 2 2.00% webjabber
17 1 1.00% 5222
18 1 1.00% authentication google talk
19 1 1.00% calendar google
20 1 1.00% chatopus google talk

October
Top 20 of 83 Total Search Strings

# Hits Search String

1 56 27.86% google building
2 9 4.48% gmail autosave
3 6 2.99% google calendar
4 4 1.99% google base
5 4 1.99% google sidebar
6 3 1.49% %22google building%22
7 3 1.49% google reader
8 3 1.49% google secure access
9 3 1.49% google talk hack
10 3 1.49% google talk treo
11 2 1.00% browser
12 2 1.00% calendar.google.com
13 2 1.00% chatting
14 2 1.00% customize google firefox
15 2 1.00% david c. drummond blog
16 2 1.00% david c. drummond blog e-mail
17 2 1.00% giersch gmail community
18 2 1.00% gmail accidental discard
19 2 1.00% gmail auto save
20 2 1.00% google base ruscoe

November
Top 20 of 113 Total Search Strings

# Hits Search String

1 35 15.91% google building
2 16 7.27% google sidebar
3 6 2.73% http://gsearchblog.com
4 5 2.27% google
5 5 2.27% gsearchblog
6 4 1.82% google base
7 4 1.82% google desktop 2.0
8 4 1.82% google korea
9 3 1.36% google talk treo
10 3 1.36% google talk web
11 3 1.36% gtalk tips
12 2 0.91% adsense $100
13 2 0.91% analytics
14 2 0.91% blogurl:gsearchblog.com inpostauthor:angelo
15 2 0.91% create a google blog
16 2 0.91% create own google
17 2 0.91% criticism of google book
18 2 0.91% deep nishar google
19 2 0.91% dennis hwang
20 2 0.91% export blog to google base

December
Top 20 of 100 Total Search Strings

# Hits Search String

1 50 27.78% google building
2 5 2.78% google korea
3 5 2.78% google we're sorry
4 4 2.22% google search blog
5 3 1.67% google sidebar
6 3 1.67% google talk hacks
7 3 1.67% gtalk hacks
8 2 1.11% chatopus gtalk
9 2 1.11% equant
10 2 1.11% gmail status
11 2 1.11% google china future strategy
12 2 1.11% google map driving direction hack
13 2 1.11% google talk play mp3
14 2 1.11% google video playback isn't available in your area
15 2 1.11% making own website where people can find easily in google yahoo
16 2 1.11% mp3 share blog
17 2 1.11% powered by google
18 2 1.11% screen capture mobile phone
19 2 1.11% search powered by google
20 2 1.11% treo

This should tell us a bit about what people are looking for, and what we will cover in the future.

Check them out. They're animated, too: they start off looking like just the characters less-than and numeric 3, but then they rotate and gradually fill with pink color.

Source: Official Google Blog

Google has lost about a quarter of its value this month. It's likely to keep falling. Now would be a good time to sell. I would buy at about $330. If the stock falls to that level, I will probably buy a couple shares.

Some analysts said Google might fall to a base level as low as $330. I don't see how these people could know anything. The stock price also isn't very correlated to how well the company's doing.


Henry Blodget says: "These are the times that actual investors live for: Panics and pile-ons in which, fundamentally, not much has changed, but, psychologically, everything has changed."

Google's competition has grown, certainly, but Google also has a sustainable business and a monopoly over web search and advertising.

"If paid search isn't broken -- and Google is the leader -- and Web advertising isn't broken -- and it's growing faster than traditional ads -- then you have a hard time arguing Google merits less than a 30 times P/E multiple," Rohan said.

Martin Pyykkonen thinks the stock has fallen because short-term investors have cleared out, leaving a stable class of investors who will hold it long-term. I would buy it for the long term. Save it for the next 10 years, sell it after I'm out of college.

Rohan's biggest concern is what impact the sudden deceleration in the value of Google's shares may have on employee morale at the company over the long run. Google's stock is down 27 percent from last month's highs after closing off $16.91, or 4.7 percent on the day, at $345.70 on Monday on Nasdaq. Nonetheless, the stock has only fallen back to levels it first hit four months ago. The IPO was $85. The price is still high.

I would love to be able to do that. Any PHP interface to Google Talk out there?
Gmail + Talk
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In his statement, Vint Cerf says that "the layered nature of the Internet describes the “what,” or its overall structural architecture. ... The “transport” layers help route the user’s data packets to their correct destinations, while the application layers control how those packets are used by a consumer's email program, web browser, or other computer application."

He describes the structure and design of the Internet, showing how it was been able to work so well and is designed to expand. He continues, "This simple and flexible system creates a network of modular “building blocks,” where applications or protocols at higher layers can be developed or modified with no impact on lower layers, while lower layers can adopt new transmission and switching technologies without requiring changes to upper layers. Reliance on a layered system greatly facilitates the unimpeded delivery of packets from one point to another."

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I didn't realize Larry Page earned his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. The President of U of M talks about Google Book Search, via the official Google Blog. My dad went there for his undergraduate degree as well, but much earlier, and he didn't get into computers. It's interesting to see how universities keep in touch with their graduates. Sometimes these relationships can be good or bad. Leave a comment!

Google has launched a new feature that allows you to add custom buttons to your Google toolbar. I'll have to make buttons for Google Community and gsearchblog. More info

Google Talk and Open Communications

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