Content tagged google
Blog Entries
google competitors gulfstream/507
Google employees will soon be able to sell their options. One of the benefits is that it gives a tangible value to the options themselves. (I look forward … gulfstream/2202
“Separately, there was an indication yesterday that Google’s vaunted corporate culture may be under stress as a result of competition and the … gulfstream/1476
With great power comes great responsibility: on all political and social issues, Google’s policy is Don’t be evil, where evil is whatever Google … gulfstream/981
"10 things Google has found to be true." I think I would personally pay at least US$10/month for Google, and my employer would probably pay more. … gulfstream/678
Cory Doctorow ranting again, this time about Google Print. I do find it odd that the people who are all for Google Print appear to have no problem … gulfstream/1876
Kinda interesting discussion about why Pooh (and other children’s book characters) is popular amongst gay men. (Funny how Google Answers results don’t … gulfstream/1984
Experimental Google feature: digg/reddit-like vote up/vote down buttons in search results. gulfstream/2354
google.com, as if it were optimised for Google. gulfstream/2341
Excellent timeline of the chain of events that led United Airlines’ stock to plunge from $12 to $3 on the strength of a false news story that it had … gulfstream/2516
Is there any good reason for Google to have an outpost in, uh, the Cook Islands? (Doesn’t seem to be any “big,” “enormous,” or “i.love,” … gulfstream/1673
Mail Goggles: Google Labs project that helps prevent you sending mail you may later regret, but requiring that you complete some math problems if sending … gulfstream/2532
Analysis of Google Chrome, pointing out that for quite a while, Microsoft have been legally prevented from deeply integrating IE into Windows: “Chrome, … gulfstream/2511
Wow, Google really messes up this search—Saul Bass (in English) isn’t even on the first page. (Both Yahoo and MSN get it right.) gulfstream/1817
Google Search localised to pirate (“Advanced Search” is “Use Me Better Spyglass,” etc. (More info.) gulfstream/2524
Not ideal: Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” apparently used to be at this URL, but it’s (effectively) a 404 now. The … gulfstream/1966
Google whines about “google” turning into a verb that means “to search the internet,” urges customers to stop using it like that. (There must … gulfstream/2182
“More broadly, the data the company gets from transactions could help it improve the way it chooses which advertising to show to which users. Google … gulfstream/2101
“My Experience with Google Answers.” Jessamyn says she enjoyed her time at Google Answers, but complains that the researchers are mistreated … gulfstream/935
Worth trying if you aren’t having much luck with Google. Notable recent successes: giving lower priority to bug tracking tickets on technical sites … gulfstream/2335
Improbable news from the IHT: Google handles just 1.7% of Korean web searches—a search engine called naver.com (which apparently delivers Google Answers-style … gulfstream/2300
A $2000 bet held by Long Bets, an spin-off of the Long Now Foundation: "In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five … gulfstream/710
Fun little “Amelie” tour of Paris. Found through a google search for link:http://www.mirrorproject.com/. I was searching for this because in … gulfstream/921
Overheard in NY + Google Maps mashup. Nicely done! gulfstream/2108
Google bad news blog. This is pretty decent, although the most recent entry is wrong in claiming that the $90 million Google has offered to pay in click-fraud … gulfstream/2014
Google search of all the pages you’ve ever visited. You need to have the Google Toolbar installed. Must require a really nasty amount of computing … gulfstream/2273
real strange countries have an official google server. (Scroll down.) Burundi? Montserrat? Is this a joke? gulfstream/658
Paul Boutin on Wikipedia. I think this article is pretty much right-on: Wikipedia is wonderful, but it’s not perfect, and it should be cited … gulfstream/1744
Nauru loses contact with the outside world and now no-one even knows who the president is? Update. Because this story is weirding me out big … gulfstream/1044
I like this: when Google employee #23, creator of Gmail, suggester of the phrase “Don’t Be Evil,” can’t get to sleep at night, he writes webservers … gulfstream/2275
Recently I’ve been writing some log analysis code to produce detailed page-level statistics, but a side-effect is that it’s now possible to illustrate … gulfstream/1001
The ABS has removed historical estimates of the number of Aborigines in Tasmania from their website because “the historical context in which … gulfstream/1265
Why do I have the third result for homosexualsex? Google you suck. (Not even remotely NSFW.) gulfstream/2396
Google on identifiable people appearing in Street View images: “Street View only features imagery taken on public property and is not real time. This … gulfstream/2293
Sometimes, Google lets me down: full-text search of 3 billion documents is a wonderful thing, but if you only have generic keywords, Google isn’t … gulfstream/1336
Google reader Easter Egg! (My Google Reader shared items.) gulfstream/2449
you can search google in many different languages... gulfstream/470
Google mail removing instances of “gmail” from site for UK users; from October 19th, all new accounts will be @googlemail.com. And: “What … gulfstream/1858
Disturbing: with the Taleban now gone, men and their ashnas--"young boys they have groomed for sex"--are once again on the streets of Kandahar. But I … gulfstream/649
Identify stars with Andriod: point a G1 at a star, and, using GPS, accelerometer, and compass, it’ll tell you what you’re looking at. (Does the iPhone … gulfstream/2613
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.” gulfstream/2554
Quotes Collected
He [Nicholson Baker] lost a month of 2003 to his obsession with the news, swore off Google News and blogs--he now has a Post-It on his screen saying ONLY … fortune
As they clustered tightly alongside the Kennedys, or took in the scene from Fleet Center skyboxes, it became clear that if the Republicans are the party … fortune
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Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
What Happened to Yahoo
"If circumstances had been different, the people running Yahoo might have realized sooner how important search was. But they had the most opaque obstacle in the world between them and the truth: money. As long as customers were writing big checks for banner ads, it was hard to take search seriously. Google didn't have that to distract them."
Going the Distance: Comparing Marathons
The Wrong Stuff : Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
"What's interesting, though, is that we're now at the scale where we can also do things that just make the Web better. We do a lot of open-source projects, because if we release code and some other company makes something really cool that makes the Internet better, we benefit, too. About half of Internet users are using Google search, so if another company builds something and two people start using the Internet because of it, we're going to get one of them"
Tracking Sites with the Asynchronous Snippet - Google Analytics - Google Code
Data Feed Query Explorer - Google Analytics - Google Code
For per-URL stats, do something like https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga%3A33798&dimensions=ga%3Adate&metrics=ga%3Apageviews&filters=ga%3ApagePath%3D%3D%2F&start-date=2010-07-05&end-date=2010-07-19&max-results=50
Fun with MVC Objects - Google Maps API Family - Google Code
Marc Ridey - Blog: Maps Javascript API v3 - More about the MVCObject class
Velocity: Forcing Gzip Compression
Seems dangerous: if certain clients seem to support compression, but don't indicate so (via the absence of an Accept-Encoding header), Google test whether they support it (via an iframe), and send them compressed content anyway if they do.
Garry's Guide to Places for Startups to Get Started - Google Maps
Broad guide to what parts of SF and Silicon Valley are good for startups.
Re: License for Google's patent
Google has granted Hadoop the right to use their BigTable patent. (If someone rips the MapReduce implementation out of Hadoop and uses it for something else, have they infringed the patent.)
ImperialViolet - Overclocking SSL
Google Streetview Static API – Jamie Thompson
How to extract individual street view tiles.
SubsetRelationships - google-caja - Relationships of Cajita, Valija, and various versions of JavaScript - Project Hosting on Google Code
Page contains links to other caja-like tools: "Among secure JavaScript variants, ADsafe, Jacaranda, and dojox secure are all designed for a similar degree of support for NiceNeighbor and SimpleSubset. Rather than translate to ES3R, they instead take a verification-only approach, which has various engineering benefits such as zero runtime overhead. However, for ES3R, verification requires blacklisting rather than whitelisting, which is harder to secure. Note that Jacaranda does define a set of static rules for permitting safe limited use of this. A future Cajita may adopt these rules. Facebook's FBJS2 and Microsoft's WebSandbox have no intermediate object-capability language, but rather, emulate JavaScript directly in JavaScript, i.e., conventional sandboxing. This supports isolation of potentially offensive code, but provides no direct support for secure cooperation or the writing of defensive access abstractions."
Search for 'Web development' on the featured items of Google Chrome extension gallery.
Web dev-related extensions for Chrome. I think this is at least somewhat edited.
Top 1000 sites - DoubleClick Ad Planner
Doubleclick/Google's ranking of the top sites on the internet.
Google Maps API Tutorial
Looks to be a nice little site on how to get started with the Google Maps API.
High Scalability - High Scalability - Paper: Dapper, Google's Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
Tracing infrastructure--somehow traces the impact of a request/query across multiple systems and networks.
Official Google Research Blog: Lessons learned developing a practical large scale machine learning system
"Seti is often used in places where there is a good chance of significantly improving predictive accuracy over the incumbent system. And we usually advise teams against trying the system when we believe there is likely to be only a small improvement."
google-caja - Project Hosting on Google Code
WhatBlocked - Tracking the Great Firewall of China
A surprisingly large number of sites are blocked in China.
Mainland China service availability
Latitude and Longitude of a Point
Layer over Google Maps, returns the latitude and longitude of the point--useful if you need to find the latitude and longitude of a particular location.
The Google Geocoding Web Service - Google Maps API Web Services - Google Code
google-blog-converters-appengine - Project Hosting on Google Code
Python scripts for converting to/from Blogger, WordPress, etc. export formats.
Google Docs - Viewer
Embeddable PDF viewer.
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
Annotating JavaScript for the Closure Compiler - Closure Compiler - Google Code
List of the type annotations supported by the Closure Compiler, like {function(): number}.
Random Observations: Developing on HEAD scales to Google
Equals Drummond » Blog Archive » Fixing the Google Account problem
How to "merge" Google accounts.
Part2 - browsersec - Browser Security Handbook, part 2 - Project Hosting on Google Code
Really great, comprehensive, encyclopedic information nominally about browser security, but actually covers a lot of details about browser quirks and general web behaviour. "Trivia: as hinted earlier, ETag / If-None-Match, as well as Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since header pairs, particularly in conjunction with Cache-Control: private, max-age=... directives, may be all abused to store persistent tokens on client side even when HTTP cookies are disabled or restricted. These headers generally work the same as the Set-Cookie / Cookie pair, despite a different intent."
InfoQ: Google Go: A Primer
Great little primer on the programming language Go.
Keyczar
"Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys."
namebench - Project Hosting on Google Code
DNS performance tester.
Annotating JavaScript for the Closure Compiler
JSDoc-style annotations supported by Google's Closure Compiler.
Google Public DNS vs OpenDNS vs Your ISP’s DNS – measuring performance - The BrowserMob Blog
Java program to test DNS performance.
Google Accounts: Display Unlock Captcha
Sometimes, especially when trying to access it with IMAP clients, you need to verify your account on the website using this form.
Apple's Mistake
Paul Graham on buying an iMac: "So I bought it, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings. I felt the way I'd feel buying something made in a country with a bad human rights record. That was new. In the past when I bought things from Apple it was an unalloyed pleasure. Oh boy! They make such great stuff. This time it felt like a Faustian bargain. They make such great stuff, but they're such assholes. Do I really want to support this company?"
SPDY: The Web, Only Faster | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency
"But the the really interesting stuff from my perspective is the way SPDY enables server push both for anticipated content and for handling Comet-style workloads."
Google's Closure online JS compiler
Compiles JS to something smaller, checking for potential problems as it goes. Also does gzip compression.
erik’s weblog » Blog Archive » Closure
Why Google's Closure is so named: "Closure was an attempt to bring a closure to this mess. The name is also a play on the programming language feature as well as the desire to make our js library be a closure of all the existing js code at Google."
Google Accounts
Apparently sometimes you need to complete this captcha to prevent google locking out remote (imap?) mail clients.
Official Google Blog: faster web
Google blog posts relating to web performance.
Google's Scott Huffman: Many More Search Features Coming - BusinessWeek
A small amount of information on how Google measures search quality. "Here’s every U.S. state and they have a home page and we better get that home page in the top results, and if we don’t … then literally somebody’s pager goes off."
Meta tags - Webmasters/Site owners Help
The <meta name="..."> tags supported by Google.
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
how to import/export data from google products
Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
reflections on google street view
Google
google.com, without attempting to redirect based on ip or anything else.
Software Testing Categorization
What unit/function/end-to-end tests should test. I've always been somewhat confused as to what the difference was--according this this, the only real difference is one of scale.
Google Online Security Blog: Reducing XSS by way of Automatic Context-Aware Escaping in Template Systems
example of some html template code that requires four different types of filtering, because variables are used in different ways.
上海市地图|三维地图|电子地图|公交查询
huge isometric map of the whole of shanghai, with google maps style zoom and pan
Official Google Enterprise Blog: What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing
"The reality is that most businesses don't gain a competitive advantage from maintaining their own data centers."
Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers
great visualisation of how msn, google, yahoo work their way through an artificially created binary tree of linked web pages.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google in the middle
"Look, in particular, at the number of stories on this topic that Google already has in its database: 11,264. That's a staggeringly large number. To Google, it's a beautiful number. To the 11,264 news sites competing for a measly little page view, and the infinitesimal fraction of a penny the view represents, it's death."
Official Google Blog: Local flavor for Google Suggest
eurytopy stenotopy - Google Search
how well (or not) is an organism adapted to its habitat?
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_intelligent/intelligent/homepage/2009/x2exp.pdf
Code Review
System for doing distributed code reviews.
Google Map Parameters - Google Mapki
Google Testing Blog: Fast exploratory tests with IFrames
load up a whole bunch of web pages in iframes to quickly see a lot of pages on a site. (pick random pages out of sitemap.txt?)
Google Software Update for Mac refuses to uninstall - Ars Technica
Google Earth 5.0 adds a software updater that runs in the background (not just when Google Earth is running) and is extremely difficult to uninstall.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What Tim O'Reilly gets wrong about the cloud
OAuth Playground
web-based oauth playground (test out apis, etc.)
Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com?
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
List of acquisitions by Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor
Developer's Guide - Google AJAX APIs - Google Code
"When an application makes used of the AJAX API loader, the loader attempts to geo locate the client based on it's IP address."
Advertising and Privacy – Google Privacy Center
opt out of (some of?) google's ad tracking cookies
Google Calendar CalDAV support - Calendar Help Center
2-way sync between google calendar and ical!
Official Google Mobile Blog: Google enables Location-aware Applications for 3rd Party Developers
how mobile google maps knows where you are if your phone doesn't have gps: "If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends the GPS coordinates along with the cell ID to the Google location server."
Official Google Mobile Blog: Searching on an iPhone can be fun
google image search in real life
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol
App Engine Fan: Efficient Global Counters
Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
a little bit of detail on the architecture of google's datacenters
First LIVE images of FULLSCREEN Android demo! | Android Community
looks nice! the double tap to zoom sucks compared to apple's two fingered stretch but maybe they have a (bogus) patent on that?
what features are available for different google maps? (spreadsheet)
Google AJAX Search API Blog: Flash and Server Side Access
json-returning web service for search results (thought google already had this but maybe just via their javascript libraries?)
Gmail Known Issues
haven't seen this for a google product before: a list of known issues with gmail
tecosystems » Clouds Rolling In: The Google App Engine Q&A
Google Email Uploader
imports outlook mail into google accounts
Google AdWords:keyword tool
some kind of tool for automatically suggesting keywords
Google Calendar Sync: Getting Started
woo, syncs outlook calendar data with google calendar! the nice thing about having apps on the web is that it's goes unnoticed by it...
Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting
get google maps tile via static call
Amnesty™ Generator for OS X
converts widgets like google gadgets, apple dashboard from one format to another
A Chat with the Designer of the Google Logo | WebProNews
New Feature: Sharing with Friends -
Google Co-op just got del.icio.us! « zooie’s blog
Google My Maps - entry point to creating own maps
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
woo!
How do actions sync in IMAP?
how actions in your imap client correspond to behaviour in gmail (e.g. how to mark something as spam)
youngpup.net - Aaron Boodman's weblog
google reverse engineered ie's jscript.dll to figure out how to make gmail perform better on ie! (hardcoded limits until the gc kicks in!)
Webmaster Help Center - Duplicate content
"use top-level domains whenever possible to handle country-specific content"
Google Code for Educators
short articles by google on computing topics
Webmaster Help Center - Duplicate content
Google Enterprise: Google Custom Search Business Edition
Google Ranking Factors - SEO Checklist
list of the factors that are or have been hypothesised to be taken into account to calculate a page's PageRank
Google Maps API Documentation
free geocoding--for UK postcodes as well. up to 50,000 request/day.
Unofficial Google Advanced Search
documentation for "advanced" search operators, like date ranges
Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google
Google Feed API
access posts from google's feed api without going via the javascript library (technically in violation of the ToS, though)
Google spies on America. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
evan_tech -- code review is great
Google Reader - Common Questions
GPlotter: Make Google Maps Easily
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee | CNET News.com
(i agree with norvig's criticism)
Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers
Stock Screener Results - Yahoo! Finance
Stocks with a price-to-earnings ratio over 50, and market capitalisation of at least 25bn.
Goocam World Map - Watch the unsuspecting
brianstorms weblog: Lessig is Wrong
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
John Battelle's Searchblog: $94, er, $106 Billion