Comments on: Google Acquires Gapminder’s Graphical Trending Technology

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:22:48 +0000

EW,
I guess I meant the traditional version of ridiculous.

“Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly. See synonyms at foolish.”

I think you could come up with something better that describes what you/your site is all about. Maybe a tiny calendar where all of the weekdays are chopped off or something…

BTW nice blue cheese stick recipe.

By: Everyday Weekender

Everyday Weekender — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:04:13 +0000

StatMan – well at least it was interesting

I guess that’s the positive out of that

By: StatMan

StatMan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:30:11 +0000

Amazing graphics on the Trandalyzer example. It will be interesting to see what Google will do with this new acquisition. I’m betting they will come up with some great stuff. It would sure make looking at Google analytics more interesting. Everyday Weekender – I would say your bloglog picture/avatar is interestingly ridiculous!

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:29:53 +0000

Interesting news. I would definitely like to watch how Google optimize this with their current business model

By: Everyday Weekender

Everyday Weekender — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:33:25 +0000

Brian…. by ridiculous do you mean good ridiculous or bad ridiculous

its sometimes hard to tell sarcasm from criticism

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:28:18 +0000

Andy thanks for the heads up on this and Marrisa’s blog. Everyday weekender. That is a ridiculous bloglog picture/avatar.

By: Everyday Weekender

Everyday Weekender — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:56:18 +0000

Actually.. it looks pretty cool. It would be nice to see google try and implement that with analytics or adwords.

By: Natasha Robinson

Natasha Robinson — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:55:34 +0000

WOW,

Amazing. I’ve had the oppurtunity to test a number of Google Adwords beta opportunities over the last few months (seeing them makes me really see that Panama and Adcenter have a tough road to travel – side rant: can we get an Adwords like editor for either of those platforms? – if they even want to be at the level that Google is about to be at – and AJAX won’t help.) However one thing I’ve suggested after testing some of the Beta tools is the ability to add trending data to the numbers that advertisers are presented. This seals it. Google’s got a winner on their hands in the PPC world.