Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Official Google Blog: Updating our privacy policies and terms of service. Privacy policies are actually a big deal. They’re the EULA of websites and often go ignored, resulting in outrage from user bases who never read it in the first place and are infuriated that the company behind the site followed through on what was [...]

YouTube – Google Chrome Developer Tools: 12 Tricks to Develop Quicker. I’ve been using Chrome for longer than I can keep track of, but it does continue to get better for developers, regardless of any (ahem: video) decisions that are made by Google going forward. One of the main reasons I like Chrome so much [...]

Chromium Blog: HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome. This story made quite the wave yesterday, with myself included. I’ve been using Chrome as my primary browser for months, I love it. This decision will cause me to switch back to Safari. From the looks of it, there are lots of others with the same mentality. [...]

Marco.org – Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. I hope to some day be able to write like Marco. His latest publication echoes my sentiments exactly. Google has been receiving a ton of slack lately, and in my opinion it’s quite deserved. How many times within the past six months have you had to sift [...]

There was a time when accessibility conversations took place as much as the latest tricks with CSS or JavaScript. Has the world moved on, leaving accessibility in the dust? Realizing that I have done my fair share of neglecting accessibility best practices lately, I’m going to focus on it.

Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration « The Typekit Blog. I think this is great. Typekit is really making an impact with the service provided, and Google hopping on board is a really great thing for the both of them… and all of us. We’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with Google [...]

Google’s Let’s Make the Web Faster and Page Speed Firebug add-on can help you optimize your Web pages.

Google recently updated their indexing algorithm to include textual Flash content. Is that a good or bad thing?

Catching up on some recent changes to Internet Explorer and a new Google search which takes accessibility into account with search results.

In continuance of Part 1: How could Google better their situation? First, a step back needs to be taken and the overall picture needs to be dissected. What is Google offering? To put it simply, Google’s main founding purpose was to offer the best search engine on the Web. Looking further into Google’s mission statement, [...]