“Google” Archives

Google’s AI summaries may be more efficient, but efficiency shouldn’t always be the point.

I’m a little worried that I’ve given Google’s fake brain an aneurysm.

Make way for the Saturfish!

It’s so easy, there’s no reason not to do it.

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

And in the process, they’ll undermine their own mission statement.

Surfers who are concerned about being potentially morally and spiritually contaminated by Google’s search results now have some “holier” alternatives.

Recent actions by Google seem to fly in the face of their slogan.

Sites like Facebook and Google exert massive control over what we read and see. Maybe it’s time to start bypassing them.

Google’s popular email service gets its first major redesign since 2011.

Also: Artificial intelligence and “gaydar,” popular Star Trek episodes, Hollywood’s decline, Asian shoegaze, and imagining aliens.

Also: Netflix and Facebook know a lot about you, revisiting U2’s POP, finding God in the eclipse, Trump’s effect on American Christianity, and nostalgic web design.

If you miss the way Rdio’s queue worked, Google Play Music has you covered.

Also: Christmas music, the Internet and our own sinfulness, Guardians of the Galaxy, and real life superheroes.

A situation that reveals just how little accountability Google has to us, their users.

Google Reader has always had a small, but pretty vocal group of supporters, and I’m one of them.

We need to start teaching students how to better use the technology at their fingertips.