challenge #4 - second blog entry

google's main blog is a little boring. so i followed a link to someone's public reader account and found an article on the stewart/cramer interview i totally missed and never bothered looking into, probably only because i was sleeping. then i followed a link to the social web blog, which talked about apps & other technologies re social-ability of websites/pages. then i went to the ukraine blog - which was kind of wacky, because it seemed to be mostly all about selling google to ukrainian businesses.

challenge #4 - first blog entry

wow - that was quite a lot of reading, did that take more time than challenge #3? how is that possible? anyhoo - a couple of things i learned from the exercises in this challenge:

1. 800 GOOG 411 - so that's like directory assistance for free? but you would be using your cell phone minutes ... either way, that's pretty cool if it actually works. i don't know if i would ever use it though.

2. package tracker - that's interesting ... but why would you use it if you can already track your package through ups or fedex or usps, or whatever it is you used to ship something? i'm not sure i get the duplication.

i liked practicing a search with a keyword, and then limiting it to .gov & .edu. its kind of like, if you use just the keyword - you get all the junk, then when you limit it to a specific type of site - you get all the good stuff.

and - my goodness - using google to search nj.gov for the underground railroad and nj town names makes a world of difference. i knew the nj.gov had a bad search feature, much like some others i know, but i never used google to make up for it.

i added a feed for epicurious.com's new recipes. i couldn't think of anything to add.