Ayer me enteré del nuevo producto de Google: Google Buzz. Al parecer todavía no está activado en mi cuenta de GMail, así que no tengo ni idea de como va.

Sin embargo, por lo que he visto, me da la impresión de que Google Wave está siendo un fracaso y Google Buzz va a ser un mixin de Wave en GMail. Motivo? Para mí está claro: casi nadie se acuerda de mirar la página de Google Wave mientras que todo el mundo que tiene GMail consulta su correo cada día.

As you may know, PageRank is the well known system Google uses to rank websites on the Internet. Well, that's only part of the whole ranking system they use nowadays, as they mention on this post about Google's Search Quality. What is more interesting is how other parts of the system work today and how they may work in the near future.

Specially I would like to remark the personalized models: "not all people want the same thing". Would you imagine one day when a search on Google returns different results to you than it does to other people? Saving your search history, visited pages, feeds subscribed in Google Reader, etc... gives Google a lot of information about what do you do on Internet, which will help it to guess what are you searching for now.

Maybe that day has already come?

These are three very smart men how know and have talked with very important persons in multiple fields, but specially technology. They know a lot about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page or Sergey Brin. They are worthwhile to listen to:

Charlie Rose has a TV show with his own name. He has interviewed very interesting people. What I like more from him is the fact that it is amazing to whach him talking. You soon realize he knows very well what he is talking about and who is he talking about.

Walter Mossberg is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and has interviewed people like Steve Jobs several times (my favourite is this interview soon after Apple released the iPhone).

Ken Auletta is awriter who has published several books. I didn't know him until I saw him yesterday in a Charlie Rose's show talking about Google. Again, very interesting to listen to.

So today, I was looking for some videos of them. Then I decided that Miro is the perfect software for that, which alows me not only to do searches and subcribe to channels (and search results) but also it downloads the videos to my computer. So instead of having to watch an hour video on a browser, I can sit and watch it on my TV.

I have seen videos from Google Tech Talks in multiple times. I'm looking for some kind of feed, but I can't find anything. Do you have any suggestions?

I love Google Tech Talks because they usually talk about cutting edge technology (like MySQL 5.1 clustering) or things that few people may know about (like The Secret History of Silicon Valley). 

Update

Nevermind. I just found out you can get feeds from any search on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=google+tech+talks
http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search&q=google+tech+talks&so=0&n...

Desde hace unos meses, quizá un año ya, Spaniards.es tenía, además de Google Ads, publicidad de TextLinkAds. Esta publicidad, a diferencia de la de Google, se basa en un sistema de compra-venta de enlaces, ganando una cantidad fija al mes independientemente de las visitas y/o clicks, eso sí, ajustándose la tarifa de un mes a otro.

Pues bien, en vista a las pedazo de penalizaciones que Google está metiendo a un montón de páginas web por vender links a la vez que usan Google Ads, he decidido quitarla publicidad de TLA. Después de todo, no daba para tanto (digamos que un 5% de lo que da Google).

Así que no merece la pena correr riesgos, menos aún cuando Spaniards.es está tan bien posicionada en Google. Puede parecer trivial, pero acabo de echar un vistazo y buscando 'spaniards' en Google, Spaniards.es aparece en la sexta posición de un total de 3.820.000 resultados. ¡Casi 4 millones de resultados! Anda que no habrá páginas en la web hablando de los spaniards, de las conquistas de España, de nuestras batallitas con los ingleses, etc. Ni que decir que en Google.es la web aparece la primera, aunque esto tiene mucho que ver con el nombre de dominio.

En fin, que no está el horno para bollos :)