I was just mid-session on Google Webmaster tools, when I clicked on a link and saw the message – “that page no longer exists”.  Huh?

I went back to my home page for WMT, and that too was a bad link. Weird. So, i went to my IGoogle home Page, went back into Google Webmaster Tools, and “wham” everything was different!

“Universal Search” was implemented by Google quite a while ago, yet the only visible change to the search results has been occasional interspersing of some video or news.

Search was not really “revolutionized” or “changed as we knew it”, and most users have absorbed the subtle addition without even noticing.

I thought it only fitting that I use my 500th blog post to say goodbye to Microsoft as they begin their slide into obscurity.

As innovative as Microsoft has been, and as influential as they were bringing a computer to nearly every desk in the world, I’ve long thought their days were numbered.

Google Suggest has been around for quite awhile now, but at the moment I’m noticing it take effect on the regular Google homepage.

Basically, you just begin type in something, and Google will pre-fill beneath your text, trying to guess what you’re looking for, showing you related searches, and showing you the number of results it will find.

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of “Live Mesh” which is going to be their answer to the ultimate computer-nirvana goal of accessing everything you have, from anywhere you may be.

Your files, email, pictures, documents, music, and basically your whole life, can be instantly accessible from anywhere you happen to be, as long as you have an internet connection.

Were you up before 6 a.m. today? If so, and if you had gone to Google’s homepage, you would’ve been greeted by an interesting site.

The home page of Google was appearing like a negative photograph image, with everything that us usually in white, appearing in black, and all of the text was in white.

A post this morning on Sphinn really got my fire going… Apparently, there is a document floating around out there that is supposedly a set of guidelines for the search quality team at Google.

Whether it’s legit or not, you can tell that someone put a lot of thought into it, and I think even Matt Cutts himself would have a hard time arguing with anything there.

I guess no matter who you are, it’s easy to forget about the small stuff -Like renewing your SSL certificate to safely collect millions of dollars hourly…

I tried to log into a Google Adwords account today, and this is what I saw -

An expired security certificate. It showed up in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so I grabbed a couple of screen shots…

An attorney got in touch with me a couple of months ago after reading a blog post I had written at SEMpdx. Google had just drastically lowered visibility of the option where new advertisers could opt out of the Content Network in Google AdWords, and I was compelled to point out that I thought it was sneaky.

Have you ever tried to remove a Google Analytics account? What a pain in the neck this is, and I really can’t understand why.

The other day I ran up against my account limit of having too many Analytics accounts associated with my Gmail address. Going through my list of domains, I realized that there were lots of old accounts from months and even years ago that I no longer use and wanted to remove.

There’s apparently a bug in Google PageRank at this very moment, causing a PR0 to appear for many pages from many geographic locations, and I had a brief moment of panic.

I just happened to notice that one of my sites was a PR0 – That was odd, so I checked another, and another, 5 domains, all PR0. Then I looked at my blog, and it too had been knocked down to a zero. Oh no, my link juice, all gone!

This sounds to me like a great thing, being able to bypass all of the bureaucracy involved in bringing fast high speed wireless to rural areas with land lines.

There’s a reason we in the United States are NOT the worlds leader in high speed internet, much less wireless, and in my opinion, it has to do with payola, and not a lack of technology.