Tag: google


Google Gas Price

Posted on 26th July, by Cathy Wang in Interaction Design Research. Comments Off

An engineer at Google has found a way to get real-time gas prices across the country.
Given three months, what process would you use to approach this design problem?



Facebook Search and Trusted Information

Posted on 11th August, by Cathy Wang in Social Media, Social Science, web. No Comments

Facebook has just announced its new search ability.

What does this mean to the end-users


Search in google reader.

Posted on 6th September, by Cathy Wang in web. No Comments

Google reader now comes with search, and it also has a different loading graphic.

However, gmail is still using old school red ugly loading graphic:

Google’s blog post about the new search

I hope Google extends the search bar to all their services, and hopefully update all loading graphics for all services as well.


Google Tools That Might Just Save The Day

Posted on 22nd January, by Cathy Wang in Online Marketing. No Comments

I am very excited today. Google just approved me for the beta of Website Optimizer, it will allow me to create different variation of landing page for my PPC campaign and hopefully allow me to find the best body copy for my landing page. (watch the demo here) Adwords is all surrounded by the ability to give different variation to test out best result.

Google has a whole series of nice tools that they have created to help people like me to do their job in terms of making online marketing work in all sort of ways.

Google Webmaster tools
I think this is a good tool. It’s especially helpful when you are trying to do some very precise SEO for your site.
(If you go to Google Webmaster Central, there are more similar tools google provides.)

Google checkout
This is especially helpful when you are …


Happy Birthday, Screaming Man

Posted on 11th December, by Cathy Wang in web. No Comments

Image from: google

This is probably the cutest Google logo I’ve seen so far.