neuralgraffiti

Dear Google,

We’ve known each other for a while now, and I think it’s a pretty good relationship we’ve got going here. I find things on the internet, and you make bucketfuls of money showing me ads that I never click on anyway. But there’s something that’s been bothering me lately. You have this cool little header at the top of a results page, where I can try a search out in a different part of Google vast Empire of All Intarweb Knowledge without having to re-type my search terms. This is good, because after looking up myself, I might want to look for pictures of myself.

Now, when I’m using your search engine to find out about some topic of interest (like, say, me), the four things I want to search are the web, the blogs, and sometimes images. I pretty much never bother with Groups, Local, or News, and I absolutely never use Froogle unless I’m starting from there. (I just don’t care how cheaply you can buy “phil haack” online.) You have all sorts of nifty customizations on your site, and it would be swell if one of them was letting me decide which things show up at the top there, so I can search for something on the web, then in blogs without retyping it.

Yes, I am that lazy. Thanks Google!

Love,

Phil
P.S. Also, thanks for sticking up to the government on that “we want all sort of consumer data” thing.
P.P.S. But please start deleting things sometime, k?