Google Library Project Befriends Belgium
Ghent University is located in Ghent, which is a city in Flanders, which is a region in Belgium. You probably recognized at least one or two of those names, but you’re sure to know this next one: Google. And Google has just partnered with Ghent University.
MySpace Dominates Top Search Terms
You know, maybe Google’s too ambitious with this index-the-world’s-information thing. Judging from the most popular searches, they really only need to focus on boobs, pop culture and cute stuff.
Trulia Takes In $10 Million In Funding
Some weeks are “product” weeks – the companies all have something they want to release. This has been a “money” week – crazy amounts have been thrown around. And – although the amount of craziness and throwing involved here is debatable – real estate search engine Trulia has just joined the crowd by raising $10 million in funding.
How Important is the Homepage?
Seth Godin, on his blog, wrote "Do you really need a home page? Does the web respect it?".
Here is what he wrote:
Human beings don’t have home pages. People make judgments about you in a thousand different ways. By what they hear from others, by the way they experience you, and on and on. Companies may have a website, but they don’t have a home page in terms of the way people experience them.
Freebase: The Stem Of A Global Brain?
People have some good things to say about Freebase, the collaborative wiki-style open database still in alpha testing. None have better things to say than its proprietor, who says his goal is to be a database of the world’s knowledge.
Angelina’s Googley Tattoo
We’ve always known that Angelina Jolie was little crazy – a pack of nuts that comes complete with blood-vials, ritual cutting, Frenching your brother. None of us have ever really cared, not to the point we would mercilessly deride her – she’s way too stinkin’ hot.
Joost Signs Deal With CAA Talent Firm
The Creative Artists Agency (CAA) represents some incredibly famous people, including Stephen King, Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis. The CAA also represents Joost, the Internet television service, thanks to a deal announced earlier this week.
Google Software Engineer on Google Images
I’ve asked Google some questions in regards to their image search engine. Here are the answers by Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google.
Guruji.com Offers Indian Alternative To Google
The term “Google killer” is bandied about every so often, but let’s face it: no one company is going to kill Google anytime soon. But a company could “stump” the search engine giant – particularly in a foreign market – and Guruji intends to do exactly that.
Experiment with GOOG-411
Google recently released their new Voice Local Search in beta, also known as “GOOG-411″, and I thought I’d kick the tires a bit. They also mentioned it on their new Google Lat Long Blog.