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Google Book Search Gets Text Layer
Google Book Search has, up until now, provided images of text; these were fine for reading, but not so great for anything…
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Google Takes Another Shot At Transliteration
Translating something from Spanish to English is a neat trick, but both languages use the same alphabet. Google’s looking at something tougher - transliteration - to bridge the gaps between America and several different markets.
Online Reviews Earn Raised Eyebrows
On Edmunds.com, the 1999 Daewoo Leganza received a “Consumer Rating” of 8.4 (out of a possible 10 points). The 2002 Aston Martin DB7 only got an 8.2. So please, please, please be careful when reading user reviews.
Update to LighthousePro/JSON/Spry Post
Yesterday I blogged about how I moved Lighthouse Pro over to JSON using CFJSON and Spry. In general it worked nice and gave me some size savings on the data, but I had run into one problem.
YouTube Becomes Free For Helio Users
This won’t change the world, but it’s a nice gesture: Helio (“don’t call us a phone company”) has stopped charging its users for access to YouTube. The “mobile brand” is even refunding customers who already sent over some cash.
Autonomy Acquires Zantaz
$375 million will buy a lot of things, and one of them appears to be Zantaz, “a global leader in content archiving, electronic discovery solutions and software as a service.” Autonomy, “a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise,” is behind the purchase.
