Always interesting to suddenly see somebody you know popping up on the official Google blogs! Recently:

  • Nick Weininger - “Better Flight Stats Results” (Friend from college.)
  • John Mueller - “FYI On Google Toolbar’s Latest Features” (Friend from Cre8asite Forums)

Nick, I know, has been working at Google for a couple years (and I haven’t seen him since he left the Twin Cities for grad school.) John was recently hired away from his own company, SOFTplus, best known in webmaster circles for Gsite Crawler, a piece of software for generating Sitemap.xml files.

Commenting on the actual content of the posts, I was interested to see that Google is adding flight delay information on flight stats searches. Yet another reason to never leave Google….

John’s post provides a great overview of new features in Google’s new Toolbar. Which I don’t use, so I can’t really say that I cared that much. Eh, it’s not about the content, right?