Google is targeting the iPhone’s lack of real keyboards; inability to run simultaneous apps; inability to allow open development; and lack of interchangeable batteries.
via Google Android challenges Apple iPhone | 26 Oct 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com.
Google Squared extracts data from Web pages and presents them in search results as squares in an online spreadsheet.
via What Is Google Squared? It Is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha (Exclusive Video).
The concept of using web-based programs like Google’s Gmail is “worse than stupidity”, according to a leading advocate of free software.
via Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk.
For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.
(see Google Webmaster Central)
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That’s really bad if you are dependent on e-mails in just that moment. For example if you are using Google Mail in your company through Google Apps.
Ok, there are of course other disadvantages like e.g. privacy. :)
Nice, Googlemail now supports Themes and they have updated their look&feel. I like it.
By the way: For the nerds. You will love the ‘Terminal’-theme. I love it. ;)
Oh, Google is stopping their AdSense Referrals program
Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.
We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense
Referrals program during the last week of August. [...]
We believe the migration to Google App Engine will result in improved stability, so we made the hard call to invest all of our effort in finishing up the port rather than do what was needed to keep up our old servers up to date [...]
(taken from Jaikido Blog)
If you want to display complicated path data on a Google Map, the most efficient way to do so is with an encoded polyline or polygon.
See http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/GoogleMaps/EncodePolyline/
Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful.
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The terms of the acquisition are confidential and the deal is officially closed.
Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the Web site usage monitoring service.
Never noticed that there is an “i” on Google’s personalized home page.
With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.
