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The “I Love You California” flag

January 30, 2025 by Danny Sullivan

I love California, my home and native state. I love flags. I’ve combined both of those to create what I call the “I Love You California” flag. It blends two iconic images for my state, our flag and the hugging bear image associated with our state song, into a design I hope shows some love […]

Filed Under: Flags

Waiting on the Fisker Ocean, my virtual road trip of delay and uncertainty

December 30, 2023 by Danny Sullivan

NOTE: This was originally written on June 29, 2023. I added updates to the end, as noted, on Dec. 30 2023. The Fisker Ocean seemed like the perfect vehicle for me. A great looking SUV that’s all EV, at a great price and plenty of range? Sign me up! And so I did, back in […]

Filed Under: Cars & Driving

Some thoughts about The Verge article on SEO

November 1, 2023 by Danny Sullivan

I found myself part of The Verge’s article about SEO today, and I wanted to address some of the things that are specific to me. For background, this is my personal blog. What I’m writing here in this post isn’t officially from Google. No one at Google has reviewed it. These are my personal thoughts. […]

Filed Under: Search, Work

Review: Life with the Vestaboard split-flap display

September 25, 2023 by Danny Sullivan

What’s it like owning a Vestaboard split-flap display? Wonderful! This post shares my experience after a year of ownership.

Filed Under: Tech

Mad About You – The “Giblets for Murray” Thanksgiving Day episode

November 20, 2022 by Danny Sullivan

One of our favorite Thanksgiving traditions is watching the classic Mad About You episode, “Giblets for Murray.” It’s the one where Jaime & Paul Buckman host Thanksgiving dinner for their family and friends. We love it. I highly encourage everyone to watch it (it was episode 8 of season 3). Below — and spoiler alert […]

Filed Under: TV

How to make a For All Mankind duct tape space suit costume

October 5, 2022 by Danny Sullivan

Hi Bob. So it’s Halloween, and you want to go dressed as someone from the Apple TV show For All Mankind? Or maybe you fancy some For All Mankind cosplay for an event? How about making your own iconic duct tape space suit? It’s easy and cheap. Here’s how I made ours that we wore […]

Filed Under: Cosplay

My quest to find the best air quality monitors, both outdoors and indoors

September 15, 2020 by Danny Sullivan

With wildfire smoke causing so much unhealthful air, I found myself wanting my own air quality monitors. I wanted an outdoors one both to better understand what’s happening in our immediate area and to help contribute insight to others. I wanted an indoors one to better understand what the air quality was like in our […]

Filed Under: Tech

My new chapter: joining Google to better explain search & help bridge the gap

October 6, 2017 by Danny Sullivan

When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday. My title is still being […]

Filed Under: About, Work

Star Wars Is Out In Digital HD — How To Make The Right Choice On Where To Buy

April 10, 2015 by Danny Sullivan

Finally, you can buy the Star Wars films in digital format — digital streaming, that is. Technically, we’ve had Star Wars in digital format via DVD and Blu-ray for ages. But if you wanted to stream Star Wars digitally from the cloud, you couldn’t until today. There seems to be no lack of providers offering […]

Filed Under: Internet, Movies, Video

My Fall Of The Berlin Wall Story

November 8, 2014 by Danny Sullivan

Growing up as a Cold War kid in the 1970s, I was fascinated by Berlin. I’d read of the airlift, the city being divided then the construction of the Berlin Wall. I always wanted to visit the city. Little did I realize in the year that I did, the wall would actually come down. In […]

Filed Under: Life

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Danny Sullivan is a former analyst and journalist who works for Google to help educate the public about search, to explore and explain issues that may arise with search, and take feedback from the public to help promote solutions.

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