I am super excited to let you know that, after almost 7 years at Google Ireland, I decided to embark on a new adventure and move to Berlin, Germany. In a lot of ways working for Google is like being at university: continuously learning new skills (every single day!), living and working on the edge [...]

If you are reading this article, chances are that you have tried the Unity interface on Ubuntu. Although Canonical has done a great job with the development of Unity, some of us still prefer to use Gnome as a default GUI. In addition, the Gnome team has also done an excellent job improving Gnome and [...]

Like previous years, I will be attending SES Amsterdam 2011 next week. I am joined by my colleagues Selina Choo and Christoffel Hiltermann from the Dutch Google Search Quality team. Together we will be present at the conference to answer webmaster and SEO related questions. On behalf of Google Search Quality I will be taking [...]

And now for something completely different! Frequently I have colleagues, friends or family asking me what they could do while they are visiting Ireland. So I decided to share my favourite spots in this article. I have separated the activities/destinations you can do/visit within Dublin, around Dublin (often as day trips) and far outside Dublin [...]

  Over the last months I have posted a number of tips on Twitter, hoping this would benefit my Twitter followers. As the number of retweets have increased I decided that publishing some of these tips here might also benefit you (the reader of this post), just in case you missed some or all of [...]

  A few months ago I switched from my normal Google account (@gmail.com) to my Google Apps account (@filiwiese.com). I ran into a few snags along the way and I haven’t solved them all yet, however I thought it might be useful to share my experiences so far with my readers so you can consider [...]

Ever since Google handed me the first Android phone, the HTC Dream/G1, I have been playing with new Android apps. Only a few apps withstood the test of time and remained on my Android phones. Nowadays I primarily use these apps on my Google Nexus Galaxy S. In this article you will find a listing [...]

  Recently I started reading the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and needed to install the latest version of Rails on my Ubuntu machine. Although there are some good write ups on how to install Ruby on Rails on previous versions of Ubuntu, I found that these did not fully work for me while trying to [...]

It has been a while since my last article about how Gmail works and in the meantime I have instructed another 500 Googlers with the best practices on how to keep your inbox empty when using Gmail. In this article I will go deeper into the rules and principles on how to keep your inbox [...]

This may be a little bit of a surprise to a few people (unless you recently looked at my Linkedin profile), but in the last few months I have been working on some new stuff within Google. After 4,5 years being part of the fantastic European Search Quality team in Dublin and being a Search Quality [...]