Happy Birthday to Google Librarian Central. It's a year to the day that they posted the following to their blog: ''Like many of you, those of us who were in DC last weekend are still recovering from the excitement of ALA (phew!)... This summer, our blog team is taking a break to think about the best ways to communicate with you and keep you ...

I used to be able to do a search at Google for cinema <location> and it would come back and give me a list of results, showing exactly which films were on, together with timings and links to reviews. This seems to have disappeared now, and what I'm getting instead is just a listing of cinemas in the location that I'm interested in. This is a ...

Google Gets Monopolistic, Eyes 90% Of UK Search Market. ItProPortal is reporting from Hitwise that Google has increased its share of the  UK market by 10 points to reach 87.3%. During the same period, use of Yahoo has fallen by 8% to 4%, and both Microsoft and Ask are grubbing around on about 3% each. I think that this trend is really, really ...

Experimental Gmail Features have been enabled over at Gmail. There are a number of new things that you can try - best thing is to take a look at the labs section for detailed information. However, if you can't wait, you can now get Quick LInks to any URLs in Gmail. There's the opportunity to add 'star icons' to highlight individuals. Pictures in ...

Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures. Interesting article over at PCWorld on the things that Google hasn't done right - the accelerator, search by voice, Orkut, Google coupons, Answers and so on. It's a list that makes you go 'oh yeah, I remember that!' and goes to show that Big G doesn't always get it right. Which we knew anyway.

Google Health has finally launched. You can create your health profile with information on your drugs, conditions, allergies, test results, immunisations and so on. You can import your medical records as well. If you're in the US obviously. I don't think even Google would be able to do much with the NHS system. Google says that they are very ...

Google Maps is a great resource and I think it's one of the very best things that they've done. They've now added a really nice new feature - when you look for a location it brings up an opportunity to explore the area through photographs, video and user contributed maps. They've provided some very useful help on how to contribute your own ...

Imagine my surprise when I did an Everton search on Google this morning. Up pops the following: Google adds football data on Flickr - Photo Sharing! via kwoutQuite why they've decided to make this available so very late in the season I'm not entirely sure, but for those of us who are interested in football, it's a welcome step. I do however wonder ...

Google accounts for more than a third of UK traffic. Online intelligence service Hitwise reveals that the top 100 Google Internet properties sent over one third of all Internet traffic to websites in the UK during March 2008. A custom category consisting of the 100 most visited web properties in the UK that are owned by Google Inc. accounted for ...

One of the things that I'm often asked on training courses is 'how can I find out more information about a particular website?' Google has now added 'whois' as a search variable. If you follow this link: whois philb.com. you'll get to see something that looks remarkably like this:Google whois on Flickr - Photo Sharing! via kwoutNow that's vaguely ...