Google

An inside look at Google

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
by William

Isn’t this the company where everyone wants to work at?

Google search privacy: Plain and simple

Thursday, August 9th, 2007
by William

So you don’t want to read their privacy page and you want to know what Google’s been collecting from you, then watch this video.

Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
by William

Watch as Google CEO Eric Schmidt defines Web 3.0 at Seoul Digital Forum.

Logomotto

Sunday, August 5th, 2007
by William

Logomotto is a web based generator which generates nothing but logos + mottos and mixes them together randomly. Some times, you’ll get these.

Get an email when Google visits

Friday, July 6th, 2007
by William

Simply stick this piece of code into your website or include file in php and get an email when Google visits that page! Of course, change the [email protected] before you put this into your website.
PHP:

<?php
//Change the following to your email address
$email = “[email protected]”;
if(eregi(“googlebot”,$_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’]))
{
mail($email, “Googlebot detected”,
“Google has crawled : “.$_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]);
}
?>

Perl:

# give path of sendmail
$mailprog = ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail’;
#Change the following to your email address
$email = [email protected];
$browser = $ENV{’HTTP_USER_AGENT’};
if ($browser =~ m/googlebot/i) {
open (MAIL, “|$mailprog -t”) || die “ERROR: Problem Opening – $mailprog!\n”;
print MAIL “From: $email\n”;
print MAIL “To: $email\n”;
print MAIL “Subject: Googlebot detected\n\n”;
print MAIL “Google has crawled : “.$ENV{’REQUEST_URI’};
close (MAIL);
}

So use at your own risk, and prepare to get spamed.

Sorry but, are you a human?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007
by William

Ha! It’s Google’s anti robot technology where when you signup for a service, they present you with a few letters and number in picture form and you have to enter them in text form. Of course, only humans will be able to enter the text, therefore, keeping the robots out!

Google Has 2,000 Job Openings Worldwide

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
by William

Yes, that many job openings. It’s unbelievable right? 2000 jobs worldwide, however, they are subject to change at any moment. By region, here are the numbers:

United States: 1,233 Jobs

Canada, Caribbean, South America: 67 Jobs

Asia: 269 Jobs

Europe, Middle East, and Africa: 388 Jobs

Google Solar Panel Project

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
by William

So there is the Google recharged car, well, now they got the panels ready!

Google Solar Panel Project

Here’s a picture of Google plex, now roofed with solar panels!

“In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1,600 kilowatt project. Panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two newly constructed solar carports at the Googleplex (check out this fly-over video).”

They are going environmentally friendly, which is good, but… are they going to dominate the world?

Google Image Labeler

Sunday, June 17th, 2007
by William

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

It’s like a game where you and a partner play. When you both enter the same keyword of a picture, Google takes that data and uses it in the image search. What a nice way to get free workers.

“You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn points depending on how specific your label is. You’ll be shown more images until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).”