Presented below without comment is a list of searches I would have performed if I could have; I don’t think it will be turned into one of those Google commercials any time soon, but it’s a pretty concise summary of our trip. See if you can infer anything about our trip; post your guesses in the comments.

• define:Kirschwasser
• How many people on Carnival Valor
• define:vichyssoise
• How many people have tattoos?
• Capital of Belize
• Denver channel 4 anchor
• How to get cork out of bottle
• Anteater bite
• Tetracycline
• Treat infection
• Capuchin monkey
• 10 knots in mi/hr
• BWI cayman
• Honduras ca
• iTunes hey baby
• Satellite Internet speeds
• Office webisodes
• Jack Welch
• iTunes Brand New Day
• Convert KW to HP

Google moved https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostic to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostics (notice the trailing “s”) without setting up any sort of redirect. Google: how are search engines going to find you if you don’t set up proper redirects??

There must be a better method for finding an amnesic Johnny Depp than poorly targeted Google ads.

“Almost from the day we launched people have been clamoring for folders. They’re here! [...] documents can live in more than one folder at a time.”

I don’t know about you, but where I come from, that’s not a folder; it’s a tag. A folder is meant to be a real-world representation of a manila file folder, and I don’t know of many real-world documents that can bend the fabric of space to be in two different file folders at once.

In order to avoid watering down the definitions of both tags and folders, Google should call a spade a spade and a tag a tag.

Dear Google,

How are things with you? I’m doing well, if you were wondering. Congratulations on your DoubleClick acquisition; it sounds like you really burned Microsoft’s biscuits on that one! LOL What else are you up to these days? Just thought I’d drop you a line.

Have a good one,

Chris

P.S. What are you doing on Friday – want to grab some beers? I’ll send you an invite on Facebook.

Come on, let’s show our favorite mega-companies how much they mean to us with some no-strings-attached correspondence.

I made this decision for several reasons:

• I don’t have time to keep up with Google. Every time they change the HTML for any of their search result pages, I have to update the extension and release a new version.
• I don’t use the extension. All of my other extensions came about to fill one of my browsing needs, and in a few cases, other people found the extension useful as well. Since I never really used GoogleTabs, I don’t feel the same need to keep it current.
• There are better solutions. There are other extensions like Snap Links and Linky that do the same thing, but on a wider scale. It doesn’t make sense to have a Google-specific version when you can have one extension that mass-opens links on all webpages.

According to Mozilla Addons, GoogleTabs was downloaded a total of 95,322 times (plus the downloads directly from my site), so it had a pretty good run. Rest in peace, GoogleTabs.

I never go anywhere, but my wife is going to love this.