Google+

You may be seeing “+1” boxes appearing places.  Like on individual blog articles, and photo gallery pages, and individual photo pages.  And soon, booknotes.  This is part of my Google+ integration; no idea if it’s going to turn out to be useful to either me or you.   But that’s what it is.

Google’s Banned Words

A new blog article makes an interesting claim: “there some are words that Google thinks are never safe, regardless of what site is using them, what site links to them, or what the context is.”

Phrases that immediately spring to mind that would violate this Google taboo include “greedy bastards”, “naked greed”, and “This site contains no nude or erotic content”.