The original Google search automatically included ALL search terms, joined with "and." Since Google started thinking it knows what I want better than I do, it's much harder to do the search I want.

Here's the most valuable change I've made to my routine in years: No e-mail before 10 a.m. Try it. Don't open your e-mail client, and shut off any tickers that show you how much mail is piling up. Then get some focused work done without the constant distraction of seeing if that e-mail was important. (If you're a…

Want to get rid of bag fees? Simple formula: STOP FLYING AIRLINES THAT CHARGE THEM. If even 20% of fliers did that, the fees would cease by the end of the month. It's called consumer power, and it's ours except when we choose to abdicate it.

Vote: Startup CPL

Hopefully they've fixed the display issues—I tried the betas but had to abandon them when it turned out that half the vertical space was taken up by the new header display!