Perhaps Google’s algorithm isn’t as difficult as we all think?
No, I haven’t been sitting in front of the microwave for too long again. Before you rip me to pieces, give me a few seconds to explain myself!
Possible Technology Limitations
Now, we all know that Google has one of the largest server farms in the world, estimated upwards of 250,000 individual servers spread worldwide. In spite of this fact, many people lost sight of the fact that Google only has a finite (albeit large) amount or resources.
Odd Privacy Comments From Google’s Fleischer
The company’s global privacy counsel had some critical things to say about proposed Swedish wiretapping legislation, but picked a strange example when comparing Sweden to other countries.
Google, Jeopardy Take Game Online
Online tie-ins usually annoy me. If I see one more commercial that sends me to a website for the express purpose of seeing another commercial . . . But prizes are good. And Jeopardy is interesting. So a new Google-Jeopardy tie-in definitely has promise.
Microsoft, Google Chart New Map Views
Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference.
Google News May Introduce Video Component
As a daily user of Google News, I’m interested in what will happen to it – for better, for worse, or for just plain different. According to a recent interview with Nathan Stoll, one of Google’s product managers, there may be a lot of changes in store, including the introduction of video.
“Google News May Introduce Video Component”
Google Maps Gives Users Street View
Never mind trying to spot your house with Google Earth – residents in a few American cities can now try to spot themselves with Google Maps. A new feature called Street View represents those areas exactly as a pedestrian would see them.
Google Maps Street View
Well it looks like the previous rumours of Google Maps Street View are coming true, Google today announced at the Where 2.0 conference, that they have added a new feature called “Street View” in certain locations on Google Maps. As well as this, starting today, Google is also adding developer-created gadgets called “Mapplets” to Google Maps.
New Google Image Search Categories
Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following:
Korea “To Play A Very Critical Role For Google”
Significant, important, decisive – these words are all pretty much synonyms, though they have different shades of meaning. But Kannan Pashupathy, Google’s Director of International Engineering Operations, didn’t pick any of them when describing South Korea’s importance to the search engine giant. Instead, he called the relationship “critical.”
Korea “To Play A Very Critical Role For Google”
Google Gets Secure With GreenBorder
Had another company done this, it might have seemed silly; it might have been called a lost opportunity. But for GreenBorder, staying out of the spotlight was a rather impressive feat; you see, the security company was acquired by Google, and it then kept word from spreading for almost two weeks.
Google Gets Secure With GreenBorder