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Google Mars

Fini Alring — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:41:40 +0000

Google has been at it again, and this time they are serving us mars on a silver plate! In cooler but similar fashion to their Google Moon. Special features include elevation map, infrared and (human) visible map.

In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we’ve created some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made.

Google Mars

Blog Searching with Google

Fini Alring — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:45:06 +0000

Google has released a beta edition of Google Blog Search. It is designed to index weblogs and related feeds. The advanced blog search is quite good and has special fields for blog title, post title and author name. Additionally you can limit by post date range as well as language.

Google has built it into blogger.com, so choose your favorite skin below.

Google Blog Search (beta)

Blogger Blog Search (beta)

A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices

Fini Alring — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:10:57 +0000

Yahoo recently wrote on the Yahoo! Search blog, that their index now provides access to over 20 billion items (Compared to Googles 8.1 billion). A couple of days after Professor John Battelle responded with a post where he mentioned the fact that Google Scientists did not seem to fully agree on Yahoo claims. Well to make a long story shorter Matthew Cheney and Mike Perry, researchers at the NCSA under the supervision of Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, decided to make a brief study of the two rival indexes, and see just who’s got the biggest and most mighty index..

A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices

Finding warez using Google

Fini Alring — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:38:52 +0000

A short controversial article that focus on using Google or other search engines to harvest chinese, russian and similar countries pirate sites. Since it’s pretty obvious that the software companies will have a harder time fighting those websites compared to those in EU or US and the like.

Learn a few token-strings from the language (download, cracked, english version, pro etc..) and you’re basically ready to go warez hunting across the borders.

(Of course this should not be attempted, ever – since it’s illegal, but it’s pretty interesting to surf on foreign sites and attempt to make sense of it all..)

Finding warez using Google

Google China

Google Russia

Interview: Google Maps Creator

Fini Alring — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:36:56 +0000

“Addressing a crowd of developers in Sydney today, Google Maps creator Lars Rasmussen encouraged them to embrace bleeding edge technology in browser software. He cited the example of how Google Maps can command Internet Explorer to use VML (Vector Markup Language by Microsoft) to display a blue line between geographical points, but use a PNG graphic format and a linear description for the Firefox browser.”

From the article: “Firstly, the Web allows rapid deployment and there is no software for users to install. It’s also much easier to make sure code runs on multiple browsers compared with multiple operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows. The downside is that browsers don’t give programmers full access to a computer’s resources such as memory, process power and hard disk space. This is a bottleneck the engineer sees being removed in future, although he thinks the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained.”

Take browsers to the limit: Google

Slashdot | Google Maps Creator Takes Browsers To The Limit

The Moon has been Googled

Fini Alring — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:52:44 +0000

The folks at Google have released a partial map of the moon, based on their exisiting mapping sites.

TIP: Try zooming all the way in!!

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, weâ€™ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about Google Moon.

* Google Moon

* Google Earth

Maps on Path to Mass Innovation

Fini Alring — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:25:39 +0000

/. Ryan MacCarthy writes “When Google and Yahoo
released their map API’s last week they unleashed a horde of hungry developers eager to integrate their data with the user-friendly maps. Brilliant hacks like Chicago Crime and Craigslist Real Estate are in the midst of switching over to the new API, while sites like MetroFreeFi use the new API to make it easier to find free wi-fi locations in US cities (San Francisco, for example). Imaginative developers, like Alan Taylor (Transparency concept), are digging deep into experimentation to dream up new uses for the maps. It’s great to see the innovation when hacks turn to apps.” I want to see Los Angeles maps of the action in James Ellroy’s novels, and a national map of the worst, funniest tourist traps across the U.S.

* Slashdot | Maps on Path to Mass Innovation

Who Will Google Buy Next?

Fini Alring — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:33:53 +0000

Kruo5hin writes “Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google’s growing subsidiary menagerie? To help predict, I will first take a look at who Google has acquired in the past and what Google has done for them, and then I’ll throw out a few possibilities for Googlification and discuss where they might fit into Google’s strategy.”

* Who Will Google Buy Next? | kuro5hin.org

Google Maps insider

Fini Alring — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:40:56 +0000

“jgwebber” has written an in-depth article about the way “Google Maps” (Good old hidden frame technique) works and compared it with GMail’s (XMLHttp based) method.

as simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google

Google Launches Google Sitemaps

Fini Alring — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:19:46 +0000

/. Ninwa writes “Google has launched Google Sitemaps. It seems to be a service that allows webmasters to define how often their sites’ content is going to change, to give Google a better idea of what to index. It uses some basic XML as the method of submitting a sitemap. More information on the protocol is available in an FAQ. What’s most interesting is that Google is licensing the idea under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. According to the Google Blog, this is being done ‘…so that other search engines can do a better job as well. Eventually we hope this will be supported natively in webservers (e.g. Apache, Lotus Notes, IIS).’ They even offer an open source client in Python.”

* bytefarmers.com sitemap.xml

* Slashdot | Google Launches Google Sitemaps