Oct 17 '11
Google Employee Goes on Public Rant - A lot of the criticism against Google was that it didn't have enough APIs available. Humorously, a few hours later, the Google API team reveals a new design and additional APIs.
Feb 6 '11
Dec 1 '10
Google and Europe - Stupid New York Times. None of the three websites listed in the complaint have original content. (foundem dot co dot uk, ejustice dot fr, ciao dot co dot uk) And one is owned by Bing (the last one). This is just Microsoft stirring up trouble. Move along, nothing to see here.
Nov 8 '09
An even simpler Google? - Just when you thought Google's website couldn't get any simpler, I came across this a couple days ago. Cookie monster, a box, and the words "Press Enter to Search". I actually kind of like it.
listed in: Google, web design | ∞
Jun 6 '09
Data.Gov - The Obama Administration launched Data.gov to try to provide more government data in easy-to-use open formats like XML, CSV, and KML. It looks like Google is starting to use it already.
listed in: data, google, information, politics | ∞
Apr 26 '09
Jan 30 '09
listed in: google, job hunting | ∞
Jan 25 '09
Let Me Google That For You... - For friends that ask you stupid questions you obviously don't know yourself, a website that will guide them through using Google. For example: How many ounces in a pound?
Oct 8 '08
Google Searches during VP Debate - Google tracked the political search queries during the VP debate. Biggest search term? Maverick. It looks like they just posted one from the last town hall presidential debate.
Sep 25 '08
Google's 'In Quotes' - Compare quotes on similar topics by the presidential candidates.
Jul 24 '08
Google Knol - Google's "response to Wikipedia", although I find it to be more similar to About.com.
Jul 20 '08
Technologies behind Google ranking - From the official Google Blog.
Jun 7 '08
Goosh - A unix-shell-looking front end to Google search. If their website isn't simple enough for you.
May 8 '08
Google Translate - More languages and features.
Apr 19 '08
Google Quote Search - This is pretty spiffy. Allows you to search Google News for quotes by topic and person.
Apr 13 '08
Google App Engine - Free web application hosting for python-created applications. Your app can then log people in using their Gmail accounts. And no worrying about bandwidth or CPU usage? I'm curious about the Terms of Service for this (and who actually owns the app in the end)
Apr 2 '08
Google April Fool's Jokes - I guess I missed a few...
Apr 1 '08
gDay with MATE - Google is just rolling out the features today. This new awesome search engine by Google allows you to search content before it is even created.
Apr 1 '08
Gmail Custom Time - New Gmail feature allows you to send email back in time.
Apr 1 '08
Google and Virgin announce Mars expedition and colony - Google and Virgin Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars. Make sure you check out the Virgle Homepage with a lot more details.
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Mar 20 '08
Google AJAX Language API - An API to detect and translate languages using only JavaScript.
Mar 19 '08
Fake Steve Jobs on the Google Android -
"Let me point out some things you can do with iPhone today that you can't do with Android -- like, um, I don't know. Make a phone call. Or even hold it in your hand. See, that's because iPhone is an actual product that exists in the three-dimensional world"
Mar 14 '08
Google Sky - Because they can?
Mar 13 '08
Chat With Your Site's Visitors Using Google Talk - Provides a way for anonymous website visitors to talk to you via Google Talk, without disclosing your email address. I want to add it to my website, but the one option they give for a badge is kinda ugly.
listed in: google, web development | Comments (1)
Mar 12 '08
Google to provide Voicemail for the Homeless - Google is developing a program in San Francisco to give the homeless a permanent phone number for loved ones, potential employers, etc, to leave them phone messages.
listed in: google, philanthropy | ∞
Mar 12 '08
Google Health - All your health information, as easily searchable as everything else.
Feb 27 '08
Unity bandwidth consortium - Google will help build a high-bandwidth subsea cable system linking the U.S. and Japan.
Feb 21 '08
Feb 4 '08
Google is not happy with Microsoft's $44 billion Bid for Yahoo - And Flickr users are terrified. But I was scared of Flickr's future when Yahoo! bought it. I still am. Does anyone remember GeoCities? The very community-driven web hosting company? Yahoo crippled it.
listed in: flickr, geocities, google, internet, microsoft, yahoo | Comments (1)
Dec 30 '07
Google Knol - Google's response to About.com, but hopefully not as shitty. Coming in some undetermined time.
Dec 29 '07
Google Chart API - Sweet Google API to create charts. No code required on your server, your just send variables to an image call.
listed in: google, web development | ∞
Dec 19 '07
Google wants your phonemes - Someone I was recently talking to was wondering why Google provides Free 411, and how it could possibly make a profit. It turns out they're using it to collect voices so they can automatically pull dialog from video clips to index them.
listed in: artificial intelligence, google | ∞
Nov 20 '07
What if Gmail was designed by Microsoft? - Spot on. And their horrible ad-cluttered design is the reason I switched from Microsoft Money to Quicken. I couldn't tell which buttons in their software would actually do something, and what would bring me to some website asking to purchase something.
Nov 14 '07
Jun 27 '07
Google Docs - The "file manager" got a redesign. I like it. I use Google Docs often for group projects.
Jun 19 '07
Google Solar Panel Project - The solar panels on top of Google's campus supply 30% of their electricity. Includes live production statistics.
May 30 '07
Google Korea - I'm not going to lie, the subtle animations are kinda cool.
May 17 '07
Google Experimental - Notice Google's slightly-new layout and features today? They present more inside Google Labs. The timeline is pretty spiffy.
Apr 7 '07
1-800-GOOG-411 - A free 411 service from Google. Voice recognition run. Haven't tried it yet, but will next time I'm looking for something. Although I frequently use the GOOGL text messaging 411 service with great results.
Apr 2 '07
Apr 1 '07
Gmail Paper - Now in Gmail, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and we'll send it to you in the mail.
Apr 1 '07
Free Wireless Internet from Google - Just a toilet away!
Feb 17 '07
GooglePlex East - A tour of Google's New York offices.
Feb 14 '07
Feb 14 '07
Google Master Plan - While I don't believe in their message, I enjoy the animation. Anyone know how it is done?
Nov 27 '06
Google Master Plan - The famous Google Master Plan in the lobby of Google. I guess it's next to the globe that shows search queries in real time. I *have* to visit sometime... Building 43, first floor I heard.
Oct 5 '06
Google Code Search - Allows you to search code from websites like cpan.org. Check out these searches.
listed in: google, open source | ∞
May 18 '06
Google Notebook - It's like the online version of Microsoft OneNote.
May 10 '06
Google Trends - Cool extension of zeitgeist. You can enter a word (or two or three) and check out the trends for that search and what might have affected it.
listed in: google, statistics | ∞
Apr 28 '06
3D modeling program from Google - Saw that one coming.
Apr 24 '06
Why I Switched my Life to Google
I recently switched over my email from Thunderbird to Gmail and my calendar from Sunbird to Google Calendar.
One of the biggest reasons for this was portability. Almost every hour of the day I'm by a computer-- but a different one. Work, home, computer lab, other job, student organization computer.
The email system our school provides doesn't provide us with much room to store our email, and I don't like to delete email because I'm always referencing an old one. With my other email addresses, IMAP is slow because of the large amount of emails I keep. Gmail is fast, stores everything, and no setup time is required. What I really like? 1) The tagging system instead of folders 2) Significantly more powerful search 3) Great spam filter 4) How it groups emails from the same conversation together -- I frequently have large conversations (8+ people) with several messages each and this keeps track of everything very nicely. Check out the tour. I have invites if anyone wants one.
I was satisfied with Sunbird for quite some time. I shared my calendar between installations of Sunbird on other computers using WebDAV. This worked well except when I wasn't at a computer with Sunbird (and was at a computer lab where I was unable to install it). I installed PHP iCal on my server which provided a very well laid out read-only version of my calendar, but I was unable to add anything to it. Google Calendar allows me to read and write using a great interface, and still has the open format and portability of iCal. Some bonus features? 1) PDF Printable Calendars created on-the-fly 2) Powerful calendar sharing settings 3) Ability to drag and drop calendar entries and resize them without going through any pages. Check out the tour.
One of the best things with using Gmail and Google Calendar? They work together. Gmail searches your message for natural language concerning an upcoming event, and offers a link to add it right to your calendar. Cool huh.
listed in: google, life, technology | ∞
Apr 22 '06
Google Calendar - It's out, and it rocks my socks. I've now totally switched over to it from Sunbird.
listed in: google, organization | ∞
Apr 8 '06
Google Analytics
I recently received an invite code from Google to try out Google Analytics. It's a stats tracking system for your website. It is meant to integrate with AdWords to track which of your advertisements on Google are doing the best, but it works fine without. The Tour can explain it much better that I can, but it's definitely one of the best stats tracking systems I've seen. A tad buggy when tracking referrals, but lives up to its expectations besides that.
listed in: google, web development | ∞
Mar 20 '06
Google Page Creator
I finally got invited to help test the new Google Page Creator. This is an online page building tool to build simple pages to go with the 100MB of hosting Google provides. It's very easy to use, but not very powerful for those advanced users out there. This is definitely a web hosting service for your mom.
They provide a simple "file manager" where you can create simple pages based off of several templates, and the option of 1, 2, or 3 columns on your page.
On the actual page, you have the simple text options such as bolding and underlining text, changing the color, font, and size and such. You can enter HTML within "blocks" on your page, but you can't enter custom code outside of that, and you can't move these blocks around without picking another template.
You can check out the page I made. Also, check out the code. While it isn't 100% valid, it probably has to be the cleanest code by such a tool I've ever seen.
listed in: google, web development | ∞
Feb 23 '06
Google and Censorship
I read a frustrating opinion piece in the Badger Herald today condemning the Google Censorship of Google.cn in China. He said that all Google cares about is money and their shareholders, and don't care about the Chinese citizens who won't get full search results.
But here's the thing--- without Google censoring their own results, the Chinese government did it for them. The Google search engine became slow and unreliable due to the filters, and at times users were even being redirected to other government-run search engines. At this time, Google -- by far -- provides the best search results. Providing a fast, accurate search engine at http://www.google.cn, with just a few politically sensitive keywords censored, give users in China the ability to find more than they ever had before. Google is also up front about the censoring, and alerts users when their filters are censored. And the final thing is, the original uncensored-by-google http://www.google.com/ig?hl=zh-CN search is still available.
I think it's better to have a fast, accurate, powerful search engine professionally censored by Google than to have an unreliable, poor searching, hack job of censorship search engine. If Google doesn't censor, the government will.
Google explains these same things in their weblog.
Oct 24 '02
Maybe Google should Block News Too - Funny.
