Some News Bits
Weblogs’ Brad Hill has some good stuff on Google (and I’m too busy trying to catch up after taking a few days), so I’m just going to link to all of it:
- Google comes in 3rd in brand growth survey (Apple was #1, Yahoo #5)
- Google Code has a page listing a bunch of Google SiteMaps generators [post, via Blogoscoped]
- Gary Price took advantage of the Michael Jackson verdict to see who got the story first, Google News or Yahoo News. Naturally, Yahoo did, because Yahoo is hand edited and any human would know instantly that the verdict was the biggest news of the day, even before the story broke. Meanwhile, Google’s algorithm needs to see a pattern, which apparently took half an hour (not bad, but not as good). [post]
- On a side note, even though its absurdly off-topic, I wouldn’t mind if anyone ranted (or raved) on the Jackson verdict in the comments. Could be a very fun discussion I’d love having.
