Techcrunch mentioned last week that Google’s Toolbar was going to start redirecting 404 pages to show a Google search box. Well, it looks like this “feature” shipped with a few bugs. Unfortunately, the redirection happens if a page fails OR if any of the iframes in the page fail to load. […]

Boy have we been busy. Ever since I started at Google, aB has been languishing in the background. But look, a post! Our author is a fellow product manager and Olin alumni, Nate Smith.
I was feeling especially close to my manager at the end of our
one-on-one meeting the other day, and I dared to […]

I want to love you, I really do. I even stopped using Newshutch for awhile to try you out. With your new upgrade and ability to not be a river-of-news style reader (sorry Dave), I was hoping for the best. But there are some painfully obvious things that seem like they really ought to […]

At some point, we’ve all been guilty of trying to do everything. For us, that’s impossible, given that each of us has finite personal resources like time and money. But, let’s say that you were a huge corporation with a wad of cash, and that you decided it would be a good idea to […]

The issue Chinese censorship has again been catapulted into mainstream news after Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Cisco testified Wednesday at a congressional hearing before the Committee on International Relations where lawmakers and tech representatives met to talk over the issue of Chinese internet controls.
Lawmakers blasted the tech industry, saying they were “enabling dictatorship”, and […]