A while ago (sometime last year that I don’t remember anymore) I came across a quick blurb in a now long-forgotten Google blog entry telling users exactly how to get their names verified for their Google Profile pages.
It’s really simple, and free — the whole thing’s furnished by Knol, which has itself become somewhat forgotten [...]

I happened across a wonderful surprise tonight as I went to fetch something using Google’s Image Search. Right there on the front page, sat an invitation to Explore images using Google Image Swirl.
Almost Ready
Google talked about this back in mid-november and even had a rocky preview available for users to try out. Afterwards it was [...]

My inbox had a nice surprise for me tonight; Google floated a Christmas present to Gmail users, and it was nice. I don’t mean like closed-beta nice, or anything of the sort — their gift is $20 million in charity to a laundry-list of both national and international organizations.
See the gift here.
When Google says everyone, [...]

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Google’s been tailoring search results for quite some time now, and their new Web History, a considerable upgrade to the venerable Search History, has made far deeper personalization a reality. Now they’ve taken it one step further — Google’s enabled personalized search for users who aren’t signed in to Google.

Personalization without Google sign-in is enabled [...]

Official pages on the matter:

Official Google Blog Post
Google Code Overview
Google Code Instructions

It’s as easy as entering two numbers in your internet connection settings. The payoff is minimal, but I’m quite happy to be using Google’s servers instead of Comcast’s.
 

Google recently (within the last couple of days) went wide with selective testing of their experimental new redesign — meaning only one in thousands of users would see the new interface at all. Some of those users have been good enough to rifle through their cookies afterwards.
Notice Anything?
It’s not a huge difference, but it’s noticeable [...]

And now I have to change all my home pages back to regular Google.
 

No matter what you’ve heard, Wave does work on iPhones.
There’s recently been a bit of a murmur about Waveboard, a “client” for Google Wave, and whether or not it’s worth the download. I’m going to say the answer is a technical no. Please, feel free to give it a try for yourselves, but for those [...]

Yep. It really happened. An ad appeared on the Google homepage.